Money Saving Tip: Burning Drain Screens

 Do you use metal drain screens in your drain troughs to keep items from going down the drain like socks and bottle caps? If so you know how much of a pain it can be to clean them. Usually you need a power washer or just need to scrub them for a time.
Here is another method: burn them clean!
Let your screens get as dirty as you normally do. Rather than throw them out or waste time trying to scrub them clean, let them sit out of the water in the trough for about a week. Maybe less depending on how big the screen is and how much lint is on it. Make sure you have a second drain screen already in place so one screen can dry and the other protects your drain.
Once the screen is dry, throw it into your fire pit or burn it wherever it is legal, The lint is dry and it ignites easily. Be sure to be ready with something to extinguish the fire as lint can be blown around easily by the wind. After a few minutes of burning your screen will be clean and ready for use again.
The draw back is you can only burn the screen a few times before they get too flimsy and fatigued and you need to replace them. That being said, if you normally buy a new roll of screen every month, this should at least double the life of that roll of screen and save you half the money you would spend on screen rolls! I will warn you, they sometimes put off a funky odor when they burn.

Ev
A Heck of A Nice Guy