About our screen work
Honolulu Screen Repair repairs and builds window screens, screen doors and lanai panels for houses and condos around Honolulu and the rest of Oahu, quoted in writing before any work starts.
What does a screen business actually do here?
Mostly it keeps open windows usable, in Honolulu and everywhere else on the island. Hawaii homes lean on screens more than most: in 2020 about four in ten used no air conditioning at all, and only one in eight had central air. On Oahu that means jalousies, sliders and lanai panels taking sun, salt and trade winds every day. The work itself is plain craft. Pull the old spline, cut the cloth oversize, roll it in without stretching the cord, trim it clean, and check that the frame stayed square. We rescreen and rebuild window screens, repair screen doors and sliders, rescreen lanais, and fit jalousie, pet, solar, retractable and security screens.
- ✓ Written quotes
- ✓ On-site rescreening
- ✓ Specialty mesh stocked
- ✓ Houses and condos
- ✓ Windward to leeward
- ✓ Straight answers
Older Honolulu homes, original openings
About two in three homes on Oahu were built between 1940 and 1989, and fewer than one in ten went up after 2010. Detached houses make up a little under half of all units, and buildings of three or more units most of the rest. Plenty of original frames, old track hardware and screen sizes nobody stocks any more.
So in Honolulu we expect to measure rather than order from a catalog. Odd sizes get new frames cut to fit, older sliders get rollers matched to the door, and condo work follows the building's own rules for lanais and doors.
Four habits on every Honolulu job
None of this is unusual. It is just the part of screen work that is easy to skip when a job is rushed, and it is what decides whether the screen is still tight a year from now.
Measure three times
Width and height at three points each, and the smallest number wins, so the screen seats instead of bowing.
Fresh spline only
Old cord goes hard and brittle. New spline, sized to the groove and to the thickness of the cloth.
Metals kept apart
Aluminum gives way when it touches steel or stainless in wet salt air, so contact points are thought through.
Repair if it is enough
A straight frame with sound corners gets new mesh, not a new screen.
Quote in writing
Itemized before anything is cut or removed.
Mesh explained
The trade-offs of each cloth, in plain words.
Clean finish
Old mesh and spline taken away with us.
All of Oahu
Honolulu, Hawaii Kai, Kapolei and Kailua.
We would rather tell you a frame is fine and only needs new mesh than sell you a screen you did not need. If a job needs a licensed trade or a permit we cannot arrange, we will say that up front too.
Have a screen that needs work?
Send a photo or a rough count of screens and doors with the form, or call. You get a written quote before anything is booked.