While screens don’t play a role in your windows’ main functions, they are handy to have when opening a window would mean letting in flies, mosquitoes, and other unwanted pests. Although barely noticeable when they are in good repair, torn or bowed screens can be eyesores.
In areas where winters are severe, screens are generally stored and replaced with storm windows, although combination storm and screen windows that you can leave on all year long are available. Their frames are made of wood or aluminum and the screen fabric of aluminum or fiberglass.
Solar or sun screening, made from vinyl-coated fiberglass, comes in several colors and blocks heat gain through windows and doors.
