blowing dust off screens

[Heathcliff]

I have a cheap Sears 3-gallon air compressor. It has worked fine for inflating tires.

I would like to rig up a tool for cleaning window screens by blowing the dust off them with compressed air. I am thinking in terms of a wand a few feet long with a fan-shaped nozzle on the end. (For reasons too complicated to go into, I don't want to just use the hose on the screens). Just wondering if (a) something like that is already available as a compressor attachment, or (b) would it be difficult to fabricate something like that with items from the big box store (air hose connector, PVC piping, etc.).

[Phisherman]

Wouldn't it be easier to remove them and wash them with detergent and water? While the screens are drying clean out the dirt in the window tracks.

[Oren]

Don't complicate the situation more. He could hang them over a clothes line and beat them with a straw broom.

[Walter R.]

Your tiny air compressor will turn this no-job into a big-job.

My window washer just takes out the screen (in order to get at the windows). He then uses a small dust-brush to brush the dust off the screens. Takes only a few seconds. Very satisfactory and fast.

[ransley]

He is alergic to water and brooms, the dishwasher would work.

[hrhofmann]

I just use the blower position ono my shop vacuum and brush the screen while blowing out the window, I don't even have to remove the screen as long as the wind is in the right direction,

[Stormin Mormon]

You'd do a lot better with a shop vac and a snow brush. At least, that's my guess. Or a brush tip for a vac cleaner hose.

[Stormin Mormon]

Straw is so 19th century. He needs a plug in Elektrik Broom from the 1950s.

[sligoNoSPAMjoe]

I would suggest a shop vac with a brush attachement to lossen the dust and capture it so it does not redoposit.

[Van Chocstraw]

Try a leaf blower. It that ain't good enough use a pressure washer.

[KC]

The volume of air your compressor supplies is probably in the neighborhood of 2 - 3 cubic feet per minute (cfm). You would need about 8 -10 cfm, the volume supplied by a 50 gal shop compressor. Yours just won't handle what you propose. KC

[Denise in NH]

Hi, I'm new here and can't help much with major repairs, but cleaning screens is easy. I put them in the bath tub, spray a little of your favorite cleaner on them, then hit them with the shower spray hose. Takes only a few seconds per screen. Then I wipe the bottoms and place them right back in the windows, they're dry in minutes.

Trying to clean them with air or a brush is way too messy, dust flying everywhere. Hot water spray in the bath tub is the way to go.

I'm really enjoying this group and learning a lot.

Denise

[benick]

Welcome Denise...That is how the wife taught me how to clean screens as well....Works slick......Maine here....We're almost neighbors...LOL... ; )

[Jon Danniken]

Coat the screens with peanut butter and let the local critters clean them for you. PLUS you get free entertainment - it's a Win-Win!

Jon