Pet Screen Door

You can turn your screen door into a pet screen door using the new petscreen cloth available in many hardware stores. Pet screen cloth is seven to eight times stronger than regular fiberglas screening and will stand up to pets scratching and clawing at it.

Pet screen doors are excellent for small dogs and cats. But It does have its limits though. While the material may not rip or tear, a pet screen door can still be pushed out of its frame. Large dogs especially will be able to push the cloth right out of the frame with the spline and all. Fortunately, its often posiible to just reroll the spline and cloth back in the spline channel and your door is good for use again.

You can install pet screen yourself. Just remember you wont be able to reuse the same size screen spline or screen cord as you had in your old screen cloth. You will have to buy a size slightly smaller. Petscreen is thicker than regular screening so it takes up more room in the spline channel. The spline channel is the "U" shaped metal channel that runs all around the inside edges of your screen door.

With petscreen its best to pre-roll the screen a little bit at a time into the screen channel, then roll the spline in after. Pet screen is quite stiff and will often hold itself in while you roll the spline in. Pre-rolling the screen cloth in the channel also helps you not put too much tension on the screen. If theres too much tension, the sides of the screen door will "bow" in, and the door will not close properly.

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