Garage screens--purpose?

[Soaring Eagle]

Besides people who work in their garage with hobbies or hang out waiting to visit with their neighbor's in a bug free environment, why would you have a garage door screen?

[kstew43]

If your garage has no window, there is no way besides a screen door to get air and light into the area. Bug free anyway.

[Bjeanj]

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/contractors-services-91/screened-garage-doors-242045/

[Wiotte]

To show your neighbors you're cool ?


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[chuckinca]

Our garage screens are great - opens the garage to the world and keeps the unwanted things out.

When we were working the garage door was always closed so you didn't need screens. Now the screens allow the garage door to be open most of the time.

With the reflective screens nobody can see in the garage.

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[Mleeja]

In the cooler weather, we can open the house with a great breeze coming through the garage. Screen closed, of course. Also, in the summer, we crack the attic stairs and the air flow through the garage will help cool the attic by a couple of degrees.

[Ooper]

Keeps the garage more temperature consistent, lets more light in, and ventilation for the house is better. Plus it lets our cat, Jake, keep an eye on who is in our driveway and our neighborhood.

[Fraugoofy]

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[dewilson58]

To show your neighbors you're cool ?


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[delima2000]

Not only improves air flow and bug free. It also keeps the snakes from coming in. Love our garage screens

[DonH57]

Not only improves air flow and bug free. It also keeps the snakes from coming in. Love our garage screens

I second that on the snakes. They will explore your garage if given entry. I don't like snakes!:grumpy:

[Chatbrat]

Once we pull a car into the garage it becomes too hot, to spend anytime in the garage until mid Oct. really thinking about air conditioning the garage

[Miles42]

one big reason ,Fruit rats.

[Jaggy]

We like the screen as it is another security to keep the doggie corralled into not running after a squirrel , etc.....we can open the door to the garage and we do not have to worry about her getting out.

[chuckinca]

I second that on the snakes. They will explore your garage if given entry. I don't like snakes!:grumpy:


Ditto That !!!

I'm forever telling my wife to close the snake screens!
(only ever seen black racers but you can't be too careful when it comes to snakes in the garage or elsewhere)
Didn't have snakes on the south side of Chicago when I was a kid.
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[collie1228]

I can't imagine how uncomfortable my garage would be without the screens. Even with them, the garage is pretty hot in the summer months. Like others who posted, we like to have air flow throughout the house in the Spring and Fall, and the garage screens help that a lot. And believe me, there are all kinds of critters here that will find their way into your garage if you're not careful.

[hulahips]

Besides people who work in their garage with hobbies or hang out waiting to visit with their neighbor's in a bug free environment, why would you have a garage door screen?

Fresh air in garage. Can leave mud room door open and provides great circulation. Keep wildlife out and bugs. The ones u can see out of but others can't see in are neat. Hubby loves his

[New Englander]

Can these garage screens be locked so an unwanted person could not enter?

[chuckinca]

Yes, but if someone wants in it is easy to just rip off the sliding screen door or cut the fabric on the roll up screens. I've never used the locks.

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[John_W]

A picture is worth a 1000 words.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Qp_bUYPrTg/hqdefault.jpg

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/05/19/us/GATOR-1/GATOR-1-jumbo.jpg

http://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/5491492434451/2017/1/14924350211648/Family-finds-9-foot-alligator-on-enclosed-porch-Easter-morning.jpg

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160505111640-gator-thumbnail-2-large-169.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/29/article-1174358-04B500C5000005DC-163_634x437.jpg

Two months after we moved into our new CYV in 2011 a neighbor found a rattlesnake in his garage. We've had horizontal screen sliders ever since.

https://ranchomurieta.com/files/snake.jpg

[ronsroni]

Crack the garage door a few inches and let the air flow SANS PALMETTO DINOSAURS! Those damn things fly!!!! Horrors.
Since we are already too hip for the room, cool is no factor here.
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[crabbyannie1]

When the weather allows, we get a beautiful cross breeze through the house with the garage screen down and the sliding doors to the lanai open. Its the same reason we had a retractable screen door put on the entrance door to the house. May not seem practical this time of year, but for the other 8 months, its wonderful. BTW we have a Lilac model, which may make a difference as to how the doors are positioned.