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Any of you who has bought and installed a retractable screen door?
I would like to install a retractable screen on a door leading onto my
patio. These retractable screens seem to be an ideal solution to many situations where a screen door would present problems, but I have not seen any at the box stores or info about them on the DIY forums. Has anyone bought and installed this type of screen for a door. Any hands on experience or advice would be appreciated! |
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Any of you who has bought and installed a retractable screen door?
"vic" wrote in message oups.com... I would like to install a retractable screen on a door leading onto my patio. These retractable screens seem to be an ideal solution to many situations where a screen door would present problems, but I have not seen any at the box stores or info about them on the DIY forums. Has anyone bought and installed this type of screen for a door. Any hands on experience or advice would be appreciated! I did two, and we love them. They're very bugproof, and they look nice. You learn on the first, and the second one goes easier. In each case, I had to modify the threshold. They fit standard openings, but the area surrounding the door has to be flat and mounting the bottom track is a problem in some cases. That being said, we got the cheepies at Home Depot rather than the $250 Phantoms. So far, so good. They're going on two years old, and doing good. What will kill them is kids and dogs. They poke through, and cause the buttons to pull out of the bottom track. This resets every time you retract the door into its sheath, but after a time, the buttons get trashed. They're not rocket surgery, but in each case may take a little modification to mount. HTH Steve |
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