Screened Garage Doors
 

Hi,
We are considering having a screen installed for our garage door and wonder if anyone can offer pros and cons. Our garage faces east, and we have already had the doors insulated, as well as added extra insulation in the attic. We use the garage solely for storage, but think it would benefit from having airflow to help keep it cooler. Would like to hear from others who have had it done. Would you recommend an installer, and would you recommend motorized roll-up versus sliding door opening? Thank you.

I have one and it's great...glad i got a roll up not a slider......friend of mine has a slider.....it's a real pain in the ass to slide the door evertime you take your car out and then manually close it.......give a roll up some thought.

Will you be opening and closing it each day? Moving it when you go in and out of the garage? Drive around and count the number of screens and how many are being used to cool the garage and not just moved out of the way.

Do not have one but I would go roll up using a motor. Otherwise it would probably just get in the way.

Recently had a motorized rollup installed by Barlow's Tri-County Screens. Kevin offers a choice of screen materials and colors to suit your needs.

We are very happy with it. Kevin the owner does the installation and is responsive and conscientious.

We are very happy with our motorized roll up which was installed by Lonnie at Cool Breeze. Look them up on the internet.

We had Lonnie Ashe of Cool Breeze do our motorized roll up screen. Our garage faces east and we leave the screen down even on the hottest days. On nice days we open the door to the house, open the sliders to the lanai on the west side and have a wonderful breeze flowing through. He was very quick/responsive when husband forgot to raise it and backed onto it (minor damage) and fixed it right up. And yes, for a charge, but that was fair. I think he advertises on here. We got 3 remotes- one for each golf cart, and one that hangs next to the door to the house.

Here's his phone number: (888) 896-8935

Can anyone give an approximate cost for the roll up screens with remote?

For our 1 1/2 car garage it was $1895.

The former owner had the roll up. I was told they took it out before I bought the house because it didn't work. I don't have any yet. Wow, $1895! I got two good garage doors installed in NOVA for less than that. How much is the other kind please?

We like the sliders----rarely use the front door when going in and out of the house. No big deal to us to open the sliders to get the car out--don't close sliders again until car is in garage. Had ours installed in 2008-company we used is apparently out of business but the cost was $780.00. Working fine-no problems whatsoever.

Please feel free to do a search on this subject, as I have posted about this before.
This is an opinionated issue....others I know feel differently.

There are basically 4 types of garage door screen options.

1) "Sliders"
2) Roll Up
3) One piece lift up with door
4) Sectioned that go up just like your garage door.

#4 is what I call the "Thumper" door, because it is commonly installed by Thumper's Screen doors.

I prefer #4.

There are good and bad about each type.

Frank

Why have a screen??

We have a Thumper door as Frank described. Using the screen and opening the windows in the lanai provide great breeze. Not as cool as having the door open completely, (probably 70%) but very happy with ours. It was installed by the previous owner. Can't see in from the outside but can see out perfectly.

1 1/2 car garage.
 

We had the people out today for new slide garage screen. 1295.00. White Aluminum. We have always been happy with this co.

Keeps the critters out, and lowers the temp in the garage!
We have sliders, and like them a lot, they are really easy to open and close.
And like someone else said we rarely use our front door.