The newly innovative Screen Maid is exclusively designed to remove pine needles from your pool cage and lanai by simply sliding the highly adhesive roller over the desired area. The easy to use Screen Maid comes with long lasting tear off sheets and leaves no sticky residue. Screen Maid will fit any 9 inch paint roller frame and the Screen Maid can be used over and over. Make screen cleaning simple, order Screen Maid today.
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As originally published October 3, 2007 by www.floridatoday.com. Written by Doug Lang.
Dear Help!:
This may be a helpless, hopeless problem, but possibly someone will have an answer for me.
I live on a beautiful lake surrounded with pine trees whose needles are turning brown and falling. The screen over my pool is covered with them.
Hosing the needles off doesn't work, and I'm afraid to use a power washer for fear of damaging the screening.
Is there an easy way to get rid of them?
Dusty Brazeal,
Melbourne Faced with the same nagging pine needle scenario at his second home in Englewood on Florida's West Coast, Tom Battiste decided to do something about it.
Subsequently, the seasonal resident from New Jersey came up with a solution pundits might call "really tacky."
Battiste's brainstorming about pine needle droppings resulted in the development of a highly adhesive material wrapped around a tube that fits onto any 9-inch paint roller frame.
Tubes come with four or 10 tear-off sheets to a roll -- priced online at $9.95 and $19.95 respectively, plus $3 for shipping.
Needle removal is accomplished by rolling the desired area, tearing off the debris-covered sticky stuff and throwing it away.
Or, as Battiste puts it, "Simply slip the tube onto a standard paint roller frame and roll those stubborn needles away."
The product, which would work equally as well on spider webs and cocoons, is named Screen Maid, and it recently entered the commercial marketplace on a small scale at retail outlets in Englewood and Palm Beach Gardens.
Having succeeded in turning an idea into reality, Battiste has formed the Screen Maid corporation and is lining up distributors and gearing up to do some advertising.
The company founder could do worse than to put his own good sense of humor to work ad-wise.
"It'll make short work of needle removal, allowing time for more important things -- like mowing the lawn or cleaning the garage," he said of the product.
In retrospect, speaking about his initial flow of ideas, Battiste recalled, "I wanted a device that could be used with something people would have in their homes already, something easy to use."
Armed with that thought, he happened upon the answer one day in his own garage.
"There it was, a paint roller and telescoping pole. Bing! The light went on," he said.
Battiste said he and a friend in the adhesive industry went though hundreds of designs and variations in tackiness before coming up with the right combination.
"The challenge was getting a strong tackiness, but not one so strong it would damage the screen or cause problems with tearing the sheets off once the job was done," he said.
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