Rescreening and Repairing Phantom Retractable Screen

Your "14 turns" and "pre-screwing the screws" in the endcap tip were very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

I can’t thank you enough for posting this video. My dog went blasting through my screen last year and tore the screen from the roll at the bottom. I’ve called my Phantom Screen guy several times, but he never called back. So…I thought I’d try to repair it myself. Thanks to your great directions, I was able to repair my screen. It’s as good as new. Yay!

Absolutely a first rate tutorial on the various steps to take to retension these Phantom Screen Doors. It took me a few minutes to determine the manufacturer until I saw the small Mylar Warning label with the 1-888-PHANTOM phone number. Once I had the name straight to YouTube. Took me 4 tries to get the 14 rotations and then get the end pieces secured back into the U-shaped channel. A helper or two is certainly recommended in my experience of this afternoon. Patience is a virtue but the job is straightforward, just follow every step in the video. Thank you very much from Bradenton Florida after successfully completing this repair after a dog ran through the screen door at my friend’s house.

Thank you for this helpful video. We used your method to repair a screen that was partially ripped at the bottom of the sliding bar (with the handle). We took the screen down from the doorway and laid it flat on the floor. Since we weren't replacing the entire screen, we just extended the screen about 12" and clamped it with lightweight cardboard and strong paper clips so that it couldn't retract during our repair. Then starting at about 5:50 in your video, we removed the spline from the bar, cut the stitching to release the screen from the spline, cut off about 1/2" of screen to get a new clean edge and then slid the spline (with screen wrapped around it) back into the slot in the bar. Important: we couldn't get the spline to slide all the way in. At about 75% it became stuck and wouldn't slide in the rest of the way. So we started over and proceeded by carefully pulling from the lead in, instead of pushing from the trailing end. This "pulling" to advance the spline in the slot kept the screen from bunching-up in the slot and worked better for us. Then we reinstalled the screen back on the doorway and it would still fully extend and latch magnetically. (So, there is a little extra screen on the roller and that allowed us to trim a little off without completely replacing the entire screen. The only cost was our time.🙂

I’ve been installing Phantom Screens for many years as my occupation. This is a great DIY tutorial on how to re-screen and service them. A couple suggestions, If you had taken the spring out of the tube and lubricated it, that would’ve taken care of the squeak. And there is no need for the white lithium grease, it only served to make a mess of the mesh, as seen in the video, and will just help collect dirt in the bottom cap. Great job I hope it helps other do this simple repair themselves.

Thank you for this. My dog went through the screen and pulled the lower third off the spindle. After watching your video we were able to take off the cartridge, restick the screen to the spindle and reattach the cartridge. I think I'll put some painters tape on the bottom to act as a visual barrier. Thanks again for sharing. Much appreciated.

Very helpful! Ours didn't survive a birthday party last night and this was really helpful in letting me repair the damage.

Great video. Thanks. I'm about to replace mine today. Should be straightforward after watching this.

The “square head” screws are called Robertson screws. Great video.

ABSOLUTELY Convinced me not to do this! THANK YOU!

Thanks for the video. only thing I did different was 14 didn't work at all, so I just turned it until there was a little resistance

Great video! I've repaired a lot of standard window & door screens, but I'm only on my second retractable now. I called the distributor in my area for some info (is a 36" screen enough for a 32" door?) but they were less than helpful. In fact they kept insisting I let them make the repair. Your video answers a lot of questions! Thanks again!

Thank you for the thorough instruction! Much appreciated!

Thank you ur video made it so much easier for.me to install my retractable screen

Thank you! That was so well explained.

Wow, that was a lot of careful work!

Thank you, this video was very helpful!

Great video!! Very helpful! Thank you!!

That worked like a charm! Thank you!!

great video