Detroit Window Pros provides professional window screens and storm sash in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs. Screens are the one component on this list that makes a room darker, and almost nobody accounts for it. A standard mesh stretched over an opening takes a visible bite out of the light before any of it reaches the floor of the room. Nobody prices that in.
In a house with generous glass that barely registers and nobody thinks about it. In a brick bungalow where a bedroom has one opening thirty inches wide and faces a neighbor's wall, pulling the screens off the north-facing sash for the winter is a free change that people notice within about a day of doing it. North rooms show it first, having no direct sun to spare.
So our advice here is seasonal and unsentimental. Keep screens where you open the window. Store them somewhere dry where you do not. Half-screens on a double-hung cover only the sash that actually opens, which is half the mesh and half the light lost for exactly the same function, and they cost less to buy in the first place.
Mesh choice is the other lever and it is a real trade rather than a preference. Standard fiberglass cloth is the default and the most transparent. Finer meshes stop smaller insects and stop more light along with them, and pet-resistant cloth is heavier again. Every step up in durability is a step down in what you can see through. Pick the mesh for the problem you actually have.
Frames matter less than people think and rather more than nothing. Extruded aluminum frames with corner keys stay square through being taken in and out twice a year. Roll-formed frames with plastic corners do not, and a screen that has racked out of square will not sit in its track and will not stay put in the first real wind.
Rescreening is usually the right call and it is what we suggest first. New cloth, new spline in the correct gauge for the frame channel and a frame pulled back to square costs a fraction of a new screen and takes minutes per opening. We would rather do that on the driveway than sell you a fresh set of frames. Bring them in during October and collect them in April.
Storm sash sits alongside this work and is licensed alongside it too: Michigan lists screen and storm sash installation as its own maintenance and alteration classification, separate from carpentry. Combination triple-track units carry the screen and the storm panel in a single frame, which is why so many of these houses were fitted with them after the war. The classification exists because so much of the stock uses them.
If yours still work, they are worth keeping and worth servicing rather than skipping. Cleaning the tracks out, new pile weatherstrip and a fresh panel gasket restores a combination unit for very little money. If they genuinely do not, we will price the replacement honestly and name the openings that actually need one. Servicing beats replacing on most of the ones we see.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — glass area computed per opening and printed beside the unit price, visible transmittance read off the NFRC label alongside the U-factor, insert frames that add jamb depth inside the original wood box frame, full-frame units set back to the brick reveal, loose steel angle lintels bearing on both masonry jambs, cottage-style sash proportions that lift the check rail out of the sightline — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Highland Park.
What We Handle
Everything our window screens and storm sash in Detroit covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of window screens and storm sash work in Detroit, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- window screens Detroit
- screen repair Michigan
- rescreening windows
- half screen double hung
- fiberglass insect mesh
- pet resistant screen cloth
- screen spline gauge
- extruded screen frames
- triple track storm windows
- combination storm sash
- storm window repair Detroit
- screen frame squaring
- solar screen mesh
- screen light transmission
- storm sash weatherstrip
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Detroit services.
Materials, equipment and how we do window screens and storm sash
The difference between window screens and storm sash that lasts and window screens and storm sash that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with glass area computed per opening and printed beside the unit price, visible transmittance read off the NFRC label alongside the U-factor, insert frames that add jamb depth inside the original wood box frame, full-frame units set back to the brick reveal, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Detroit job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do window screens and storm sash outside Detroit
Detroit Window Pros covers Detroit and the surrounding communities of Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Dearborn, MI — Wayne County, population 109,976 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Dearborn Heights, MI — Wayne County, population 63,292 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Hamtramck, MI — Wayne County, population 28,433 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Highland Park, MI — Wayne County, population 8,977 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Grosse Pointe Park, MI — Wayne County, population 11,595 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Storm Sash in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI — Wayne County, population 10,148 at the 2020 census
Start on the Detroit Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Window Pros
- ✓We measure the daylight opening before and after, and both numbers go on the estimate. On a thirty-inch Detroit opening an insert costs you roughly a fifth of the glass; on a wide one it costs almost nothing, and only one of those is worth full-frame money.
- ✓Visible transmittance sits on the quote next to the U-factor. The code here caps how much heat a window may lose and sets no solar heat gain ceiling at all, so glass built for a cooling climate is a poor trade in a Detroit February.
- ✓Net clear opening is measured through the sash in every sleeping room in the house, including the ones nobody asked about. If a room already meets the requirement we write the number down, say so, and leave it alone.
- ✓Glass is specified by elevation rather than by package. South and east openings get higher transmittance and higher solar gain, the few west lites get something tighter, and alley-facing openings get laminated glass for security.
The standards behind window screens and storm sash
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The window screens and storm sash work we do in Detroit follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every window screens and storm sash project in Detroit gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free window screens and storm sash free estimate in Detroit, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.