Whether you want to wake up to a morning breeze or you’re interested in cutting down on your energy consumption to cool your home during the early summer months, open doors and windows can provide you with a comfortable living temperature. However, while your windows might have built-in screens, there’s a good chance your door does not. That is why a retractable screen door is a great investment.
Retractable screens are the perfect solution for homeowners looking to maximize the benefits that warm, fresh air brings to our daily lives.
A retractable screen door is an affordable option that will help improve your level of comfort inside the house, while also reducing the amount of money you pay to cool your home because you’re A/C unit will not need to run as often with a cool breeze flowing through. Retractable screen doors can fit nearly any opening, are great for in swing and out swing doors and can also be fitted to French Door Screens.
Why Install a Retractable Screen Door
. Instant Cross-Breeze
One of the best ways you can cool down your home is with a cross-breeze. Simply open doors and windows on opposite sides of a room to achieve this. However, leaving your back door open can allow insects and debris into your home. It can also be problematic if you have indoor pets, as they may venture outside. Retractable screen doors allow you to close the screen like a sliding door, letting the breeze in while keeping insects out and pets inside.
. Easy to Open and Close
A retractable screen door works exactly like a sliding door. You slide it open when you want to enjoy the breeze, and you slide it closed when you’re done. The retractable screen comes with a metal housing unit that it slides into when not in use, becoming completely invisible. This not only protects it from possible damage, but it also reduces the amount of space it requires.
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1. Convenience
Trying to open and close a screen door as you're going about your daily life is annoying at best, and extremely inconvenient and difficult at its worst. How many times have you had your hands full and you struggle to get your door to open without setting everything down first? Your troubles are over once you install a retractable screen door. With the Retractable Screen Door, one touch of a button and the screen automatically retracts into a housing unit, completely out of your way allowing you to pass without trouble.
2. Child and Pet Friendly
Do you have children or animals that constantly lean on or run into your screen doors? It’s damaging to the screen and the frame, bending it out of alignment. Holes start appearing, the screen loses slack, and eventually it doesn’t work like it used to.
The screen in a Brisa Retractable Screen is not glued into place on the tracks. That means it has the give to break away from the housing track preventing damage to the screen. If a child or a pet accidentally leans into the screen, you’re not going to get the wear and tear that you would normally see from a traditional screen door.
Also, the Brisa Screen has two horizontal stripes on the screen to make it more visible in the sunlight. That way you know if the screen is there or if it’s currently retracted. Children and pets will be able to see the screen more clearly and have less incidents of running into the screen door.
3. It Retracts
Have you ever had problems with your sliding door screen not working? Over time, the screen frame becomes bent or constantly misaligned causing major issues trying to actually open and close the screen.
That’s another huge benefit of Brisa screens. There is no sliding it back and forth anymore. Instead, it just retracts on its own, completely out of your way. The housing unit automatically pulls the screen out of your way and holds the screen inside itself until you are ready to extend it again. No more hassle with a non-functioning screen door.
4. Fresh Air
Replacing an existing screen with a retractable screen has its advantages. But the Brisa Retractable Screen Door can also be added to entryways that don’t have a screen door today. That means you can open MORE doors to fresh air to enjoy the warmer months.
5. Energy Efficiency
Letting natural air flow throughout your home saves you from running the heat or the air conditioning. You’re going to love the fresh air and all the savings!
6. Easy Installation
Brisa Retractable Screens install in less than 30 minutes. Snap a few components together, line it up on your entryway, and screw into place. The simplicity is incredible and makes the installation easy regardless of your DIY experience.