Screen Doors

Use Garage Screens for Comfort and Convenience

If you spend any time working in your garage, you’ve likely felt frustrated at times. It’s hard to sit in the stuffy heat and tinker without suffocating. However, if you open your garage door, in comes the insects and the blazing sunlight. Luckily, garage screens offer a more flexible solution and can turn your garage workshop into a comfortable and convenient workspace. And, when you work in a place that you like to be in, you enjoy your work and actually get more done.

Almost all homes are built with the standard garage door. For people who mainly use their garage to park a car or two and store their extra stuff, this may be enough. However, you’re not the average person. You see your garage as an extension of your home. You spent a lot of time setting up your workspace and making it clean, usable and inviting. Installing garage screens can be the perfect way to take your user friendly garage to the next level. This is an especially perfect solution if you use your area to store and showcase collectibles like classic cars.

There are many reasons to consider replacing your garage door with a screen. While you’re working, it’s inconvenient to stop what you’re doing to regulate the temperature and comfort level. With garage screens, you have a remote control right at your fingertips and can put the screen up or down with just the click of a button. If you don’t even want to put that much thought into it, you can install and wind or sun sensor, or both. This automatically will raise and lower the device when the sun or wind hits it. It also makes no difference whether your garage is standard size or not. Each screen is custom built to exactly your specification.

Once you see how perfect garage screens are, why stop there? You may want to look into other applications as well. How about adding an automatic screen to your deck, sun room or outside entertaining area? You may just be the only house on the neighborhood that can barbecue without being eaten alive by mosquitoes. These are just a few reasons to consider using automatic retractable screens in your home and garage.

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Using Retractable Screens For Natural Ventilation

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We live on a hillside with a north westerly exposure.   During the morning hours our home is always maintained at a comfortable temperature by the installed insulation.  However when the sun comes over the roof line things start to heat up.   We close all doors and windows and turn on the air conditioning unit.  By evening things have cooled off outside and we wish we had that cool evening breeze circulating throughout the house.  We had considered various types of screen doors and then decided on the retractable screens because our rear doors are of the french door variety and have a double opening.

Retractable screens were not an easy thing to find.  Many places we looked had suggestions but none of them would provide a complete coverage for the french door openings and some even suggested keeping one of the doors permanently in the closed position.  This was not a satisfactory solution for us so we kept looking.  When we finally found the Stoett model we saw hope for our dilemma.  By using two door that meet in the middle we can open one or both of them as the need be.   We also have the ability to open one or both of our french doors for the natural ventilation.

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Retractable Screens Give Us An Extra Room

We often use our garage as a recreation room when our children have company over.  It keeps the noise and dirt out of the house and allows them to enjoy themselves without having the parents looking over their shoulders all the time.  Needless to say the convenience is appreciate by all.   In order to make the room work better we have installed retractable screens that can be lowered when the garage door is open.   During the daylight hours it keeps the garage well lighted without inviting in dust dirt or outside creatures.   At night it keeps the room cool as the outdoors and while the insects are always attracted to the lights they can not get past the screen barrier.

We foresaw a possible problem when we had the retractable screens installed.  What were we going to do when we came home late at night and upon opening the garage door and found the screen in place.  This was simply addressed by getting two of the remote control screen openers.  We always carry one of them in the car and the other is mounted next to the door from garage to house.  No matter where we are when we want to enter the garage the screen opening is only a button push away.

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Retractable Garage Screens in Florida

We live in Florida, and one of the most common things in our area is using our garage to sit and enjoy the day under shelter.  We also like to air out our garage from time to time without having to worry about attracting bugs.  We found a way to accomplish both of these things by installing a screen on our garage.  It pays to research garage screens as not all manufacturers are alike.  We prefer the durability and reliability of the Stoett manufacturer.  We have been buying the Stoett brand of screens for our doors and windows for years, and now we bought one for our garage.  Except nothing but the best.

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Remodeling for Relaxation

My husband and I are in the process of remodeling.  We have completed most of the basic remodeling.  Our bedroom has sliding glass doors with a nice deck just outside so we can sit and drink our morning coffee and catch the beautiful morning air.  Sometimes we like to leave our door open during nice weather, but we had no screen on the door.  We needed a screen for the side we open on these nice days.  Stoett has the best, most durable screens available on the market today.  That is why we chose the Stoett retractable screen for our sliding glass door.  We plan on buying more screens for our other exterior doors next.

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Traditional Screens vs Retracting Screens

Traditional screen doors require some maintenance, and need to be replaced often.  The alternative to this is a high quality Stoett retractable screen that will add beauty to your home as well as convenience.  With this kind of screen, you can choose when you want to have the screen open, or closed.  This creates a better way to show off your beautiful front door.  You do not have to worry about taking these off during the winter as they are not a fixed screen door.  During Spring and Fall this is the perfect solution for airing out your home or just for letting the nice cool air in saving money on your electric bill.

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Move the Party Indoors With Retractable Garage Screens

With summer nearing its end and fall quickly approaching, it’s time to squeeze all you can out of these last summer days. If it’s already starting to get too chilly in your area for backyard barbecues, then it’s time to move the party into the garage. Not just a place to park vehicles anymore, with the help of garage screens, garages can be quickly transformed into an outdoor living space perfect for hosting those end of summer parties. Easily installed, they leave plenty of time for preparing food and cleaning clutter out, a job you just might have been avoiding all summer!

Utilizing your garage space is truly an ideal solution for continuing to host gatherings in the outdoors, without making your guests freeze in the now cooler evenings. Garage screens are easily installed, and once in place can be lowered when needed, and retracted when not, They keep the bugs out, while letting in the cool, refreshing evening breezes that remind us all why we enjoy fall. And of course, they’re easy to use, so that the barbecue chef of the evening can quickly and easily go back and forth from the part to the grill with just the touch of a button. Take advantage of the space provided by your garage, and continue making lasting memories with friends and family.

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Retractable Screens For Sun Protection

When we moved into our new home we contracted with a builder to install a sun room that would cover the back patio.   We wanted something that could be used year around whether it was raining or not.  The room that was built can be used twelve months out of the year if you do not mind the heat.   Once the sun hits the large expanse of glass the temperature starts to rise and it soon becomes unbearable to be in.  When the sun goes down and the heat escapes the room is once again usable.  It seemed obvious to me that what we needed were some sort of retractable screens that could be installed to stop the suns rays from beating down on us.

After a search for what was available we invited a Stoett representative out to the house for recommendations.   He recommended a series of retractable screens to cover each section of the windows.  Now with the push of a button we can cover or open each pane of glass in the room.  We are in control and can allow as much sun light in as little sun light in as we wish.   The room now meets its expectation of being usable twelve months a year.

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Using Garage Screens to Turn the Garage Into a Haven for Children

The birth of a new child is a blessing, although it can prove challenging at times too! Sibling who are in the toddler years might struggle with the idea of not being the baby anymore, while teenage sibling might struggle with the need for more privacy and space. While there are many solutions to easing sibling tension following the birth of a new baby, one positive idea of the many is to install garage screens, and turn your garage into a separate, semi-outdoor living area. This space can be utilized in many different ways to help ease the stress siblings feel with the addition of a new family member.

For teenagers, a separate space away from the main living areas can be a much needed and appreciated haven of peace. A few rugs, an old couch and a TV can make this a peaceful place where they can have friends over, and take a break from being the big brother or sister. Garage screens of course add the wonderful feel of being outdoors, which adds to the relaxing nature of a garage turned haven. For younger children, the space can be used as a new, special play area just for them. Again, with the addition of rugs, an old couch, and shelves to organize all of their favorite toys, the new space can be the perfect place for spending one-on-one time alone with mom and dad.

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Garage Screens Turn Heated Garages Into Airy, Sunlit Play Areas for Children

With summer nearing its end and fall quickly approaching, it’s time to squeeze all you can out of these last summer days. If it’s already starting to get too chilly in your area for backyard barbecues, then it’s time to move the party into the garage. Not just a place to park vehicles anymore, with the help of garage screens, garages can be quickly transformed into an outdoor living space perfect for hosting those end of summer parties. Easily installed, they leave plenty of time for preparing food and cleaning clutter out, a job you just might have been avoiding all summer!

Utilizing your garage space is truly an ideal solution for continuing to host gatherings in the outdoors, without making your guests freeze in the now cooler evenings. Garage screens are easily installed, and once in place can be lowered when needed, and retracted when not, They keep the bugs out, while letting in the cool, refreshing evening breezes that remind us all why we enjoy fall. And of course, they’re easy to use, so that the barbecue chef of the evening can quickly and easily go back and forth from the part to the grill with just the touch of a button. Take advantage of the space provided by your garage, and continue making lasting memories with friends and family.

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