Des Moines Window Pros provides professional window screens, rescreening and storm panels in Des Moines, IA for residential and commercial properties across Greater Des Moines. Screens are the cheapest thing we do and we would far rather do them than sell you a window. A torn screen on a sound sash is a twenty-minute rescreen, and a surprising number of replacement quotes in this city start with a homeowner staring at a damaged screen.
The frame is usually fine, which is the part that surprises people. Roll-formed aluminum screen frames outlive several generations of mesh, and if the corners are still square and the spline channel is intact we will strip the old cloth, clean out the channel, roll in new mesh and a fresh spline, and hand it back the same day.
Mesh choice is worth two minutes of your time. Standard 18 by 16 fiberglass cloth is fine for most openings. Aluminum mesh holds a crease but stands up to pets. Heavier pet-grade cloth takes a dog's paws without tearing. Fine 20 by 20 no-see-um mesh helps near a creek or a wooded lot, but it cuts visible light and airflow noticeably and we say so first.
Solar screens are the one upgrade worth arguing for, and only on specific elevations. A 70 or 80 percent shade cloth on a west-facing bedroom cuts summer heat gain at a fraction of what low-solar glass costs, and it comes off in October if you want the light back. On a north wall it does nothing but dim the room.
Casement screens live on the inside of the sash and take a different kind of abuse. They get pushed out at the corner by the crank handle, and a bowed screen frame fouling the operator gets blamed for a broken window far more often than it deserves. We straighten or rebuild those frames rather than ordering new ones at four times the cost.
For openings where no screen survives, we build new frames to the measured opening in whatever finish matches the sash. Half screens for double-hungs where you only ever open the bottom, full screens where you tilt both, and a heavier frame section on anything over about forty inches wide so it does not rack.
Storm and screen combination units on older houses deserve saving rather than scrapping, whatever the salesman at the door told you. A triple-track with sound corners can be rebuilt with new glass inserts, new mesh, new corner keys and fresh weep vents for a fraction of a replacement window, and it keeps a working storm over sash that may well be a century old.
None of this is a big ticket, and that is precisely the point of the page. If you call us about a screen you will get a screen, a price for the screen, and an honest note about anything genuinely wrong with the window it came out of. We are not going to turn a twenty-minute rescreen into a two-hour sales appointment.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — dense-pack cellulose and attic top-plate air sealing done ahead of glass, AERC-rated low-e interior and exterior storm panels, warm-edge spacers in replacement insulated glass units, pultruded fiberglass lineals with a glass-matched expansion rate, polyamide thermal struts in commercial aluminum framing, EPA Lead-Safe Certified containment on pre-1978 openings — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Des Moines and nearby communities including West Des Moines, Ankeny, Ames, Urbandale.
What We Handle
Everything our window screens, rescreening and storm panels in Des Moines covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of window screens, rescreening and storm panels work in Des Moines, IA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- window screens
- screen repair
- rescreening service
- screen frame rebuild
- pet resistant screen mesh
- no see um screen mesh
- solar screens
- shade cloth screens
- casement interior screens
- half screens double hung
- triple track storm windows
- storm window glass inserts
- custom screen frames
- screen spline replacement
- window screens Des Moines
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Des Moines services.
Materials, equipment and how we do window screens, rescreening and storm panels
The difference between window screens, rescreening and storm panels that lasts and window screens, rescreening and storm panels that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with dense-pack cellulose and attic top-plate air sealing done ahead of glass, AERC-rated low-e interior and exterior storm panels, warm-edge spacers in replacement insulated glass units, pultruded fiberglass lineals with a glass-matched expansion rate, 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 Des Moines 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 Greater Des Moines 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, rescreening and storm panels outside Des Moines
Des Moines Window Pros covers Des Moines and the surrounding communities of Greater Des Moines. 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, Rescreening and Storm Panels in West Des Moines, IA — Polk County, population 68,723 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens, Rescreening and Storm Panels in Ankeny, IA — Polk County, population 67,887 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens, Rescreening and Storm Panels in Ames, IA — Story County, population 66,427 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens, Rescreening and Storm Panels in Urbandale, IA — Polk County, population 45,580 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens, Rescreening and Storm Panels in Johnston, IA — Polk County, population 24,064 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens, Rescreening and Storm Panels in Waukee, IA — Dallas County, population 23,940 at the 2020 census
Start on the Des Moines Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Des Moines Chooses Des Moines Window Pros
- ✓We price the repair before the replacement, and we will take the smaller job
- ✓Whole-unit NFRC ratings on every quote, never center-of-glass numbers
- ✓Sloped sill pans with back dam and end dams on every opening we set
- ✓Insulated glass unit replacement offered on any sash that is still sound
The standards behind window screens, rescreening and storm panels
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The window screens, rescreening and storm panels work we do in Des Moines 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, rescreening and storm panels project in Des Moines 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, rescreening and storm panels free estimate in Des Moines, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.