Household Repairs Holes in metal screening. If wires are simply pushed apart, as by a pencil point, straighten them with a small nail or ice pick. If wires are broken, buy screen patches at hardware store and hook into place over hole. You can make large screen patches out of a scrap of screening.

Holes in fiberglass screening. Push strands together if they are not broken. If strands are broken, you can fuse a fiberglass patch to the screening by applying heat. Practice on some scrap material until you get the hang of this. Have some one hold an iron frying pan or something similar to one side of the torn screening. Cut a patch to overlap hole and hold it against screening on other side. Then run the tip of a hot iron over it until it is stuck tight.

Holes in plastic screening. Cut a patch out of similar screening and sew it over the hole with nylon thread.

Metal screening corroded. Set on a flat surface and dust with a stiff bristle brush. Wash with soap and water, rinse and let dry. Paint both sides with two coats of spar varnish or prepared screen paint. To avoid clogging the mesh, apply finish with a piece of carpet.




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May 23, 2012