Ratings & Reviews for Screen Tight 1.5-in Porch Screening System Base Strip

Great product!

Awesome system for screening in your porch. We love it and easy to install.

Screen porch enclosure

We used this to install screen to enclose our porch. Easy to use, looks great!

Saved over $1200 and screened in my porch myself. It is time consuming and a lot of work but once you get it, it gets faster and easier. I would definately do it again and love Lowes military discount.

Screening

The screen tight system is easy to use and holds the screen very tight. I would definitely recommend it.

Great System

Bought this system to re-screen our back porch. System was straight forward and went up easy.

Limited and weak colors, particularly brown.

Screen tight caps come in very limited colors. Of course white works well for those white deck applications, but the brown is not really brown but light mocha and detracts from a wood finish.

just completed my porch

loved the ease of use. installed over 100 ft of no see em screen on my front porch in two days

14 years and still looks great.

I use the Screen Tight system to screen in our porch 14 years ago, could not be more pleased.plan to use it again when I build my wife's Woman Cave.

Great Product

Finally a product that's affordable, well made and actually works. We covered a portion of our deck and screened it. I found this product at Lowes and I'm glad I did. It's easy to work with, easy to install and looks great when it's complete. You don't have to be perfect with this product to make it look great. The snap in cover is easy to install and looks great. I would recommend this product to anyone from the new homeowner to the pro's.

easy to use

easy to install, great price made my job easier too,if you get a tear or hole in screen its easy to replace. makes the job look good too

Does not work with aluminum screen

This system does not work with aluminum screening. It has been nothing but trouble. The channels of the system are different sizes, have tried many different sizes of spline (including 1.60 as recommended on manufacturer's website) and nothing fits right. I plan on returning it and going with the old fashioned way of staples and furring strips. Waste of time and $$$$.

Great product but watch your spacing

We replaced the screening on our 20x15 porch with this system. The taller the porch the trickier the installation becomes. Make sure you really trim the screen before installing the caps. Even with the screen trimmed close the caps did not always go on easy. We had one major problem where we screwed the top base row flush to the wood trim of the house. The caps wouldn't snap in because you need to leave at least an 1/8 inch gap. Unfortunately the video and our printed instructions didn't say thi...

Good Product, Not As Easy As it Says To Install

Couple of things they don't show in the video at the manufacture's site. You can't cut it with scissors. I used straight cut metal sheers. You need to measure carefully, make sure the base strips go on perfectly straight (horizontal and vertical) or it will show when you put the cap on. You need to square the ends after cutting with a bench sander (see pic) for things to look right, especially the caps.

Wonderful Product - Easy Install

The price was only about $20 more than the wood trim I would have needed to buy. This was easy to install. I used the drywall screws but the heads were a little small so I didn't screw them into the notches, I just screwed them into the strip itself. I live in a windy city so I used extra screws. I installed all of the base strips and installed 85% of the screen in 1 day by myself. I used the fiberglass screen and the spline was a little hard to get started, but I just poked it in the channel wi...