Replacing Window Screens in 5 Easy Steps Step 1: Remove the old screen from the frame. The screen is held in place with a plastic cord, called a spline, that runs in a channel around the perimeter ...

How to replace a window screen Remove the old screen. To remove the old screen from the frame, place your awl in the end of the channel at the edge of the frame that holds the spline, and pry it ...

After removing the screen from the window, I then removed the spline from the window.

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