Privacy Screens – Metro Phoenix

They are exterior mesh screens that roll down over an opening from a slim housing above it. The fabric runs in zip side-retention tracks that hold it taut, so it covers the whole opening instead of flapping in it. Closed, the weave breaks up the view from outside while you keep the view out and the air moving. Open, it rolls back into the housing and the opening is clear again. Windows, sliding glass doors, covered patios, outdoor rooms and ground-floor commercial glass all take the same system.

Not easily, and that is the useful direction. The bright side of a mesh is the side that reads as a surface, and in daylight the bright side is the one facing the street. Someone outside sees the weave. You see past it. How complete that is depends on the fabric: a tighter weave and a darker color give more cover, an open weave gives less. What nobody should tell you is that it is absolute. Movement right up against the glass can still register.

Not on their own. Once your interior lights are on and the outside is dark, the lighting reverses and the effect reverses with it: the bright side is now indoors, so the mesh stops reading as a surface from outside and starts reading as one from inside. Anyone who tells you a view-through mesh delivers nighttime privacy is selling. If night is the problem you are actually solving, say so at the estimate, because it changes which fabric belongs on that opening.

The best motorized patio screens are the ones matched to the opening, so the honest answer is a short checklist rather than a product name. Look for zip side-retention tracks rather than a loose hem, because that is what holds a wide span taut. Look for a fabric grade chosen for your sightline instead of one house mesh used everywhere. Look for a motor sized to the screen rather than to the price. And look for someone who measures your openings instead of quoting from a photograph.

A fixed screen or panel commits the opening to cover on every day of the year. That is fine where the sightline never changes and you never want the view back. Motorized outdoor screens do the same job in the same place, the outside of the opening, and then retract into the housing when you want the space open again. On a patio you actually use, that difference is the entire point of paying for a motor.

There is no list price, because every screen is built to the opening it covers. What moves the number is the width and height of that opening, the fabric you choose, the track system, and the motor. A ground-floor bedroom window and a three-bay covered patio are not the same job, and any figure quoted before someone measures is a guess dressed up as an answer. The estimate is free and on site. For how the pricing works, see what rolling screens cost in Phoenix.

Motorized. Rolling screens run on a motor rather than a crank or a spring, because the fabric has to travel evenly in the side tracks to stay taut across a wide opening. In practice that is also what makes them worth having, since a screen you have to wrestle is a screen you leave up. For the motors, the controls and the options in full, see motorized retractable patio screens.

Not with a solar motor. Solar units arrive as a package with the motor, battery and panel already wired together, so there is no new circuit to run and no electrician to book. The panel does need real daylight to hold its charge, which means it goes where the sun actually reaches rather than where it looks tidiest. Hardwired options cover openings that never see direct sun.

Yes, with a smart hub. A Bond Bridge connects your screens to your home network, so you can run them from your phone from anywhere, set them on a schedule, or use voice through Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. For privacy the schedule earns its keep on the openings you cover at the same time every day, a street-facing bedroom in the morning or a patio through the afternoon, so it happens without anyone having to think about it.

Solar and battery motors do, because they are not drawing from the house at all. They run off their own stored charge, so an outage does not leave a screen stranded half way down. One thing worth knowing: a solar motor does not take a manual override crank, so its charge is what runs it. If an opening sits in shade for most of the day, your specialist will steer you to a different motor rather than hope.

Same system, smaller. The housing, the side tracks and the motor are the same, and what changes is the width and the fabric you would sensibly choose. A bedroom or bathroom window usually wants more cover than a patio, because you are not sitting there enjoying a view through it. The screen mounts outside the glass, so it works whether the blinds behind it are open or closed.

A blackout fabric, which is solid rather than woven, so nothing reads through it in either direction. Among the meshes it runs privacy fabric, then a tighter weave, then a more open one, and every step toward more cover costs you some view out and some airflow. Color works alongside weave: darker fabrics read as more of a surface from outside and stay the clearest to look out through from inside. Where the requirement is a solid physical barrier rather than a fabric, a rolling shutter is the correct tool for that opening.

No, and that is the reason to use a mesh instead of a solid covering. From inside, the darker side, you read through the weave to the yard, the street or the pool deck. How crisp that stays tracks the fabric: an open weave keeps the sharpest view, a privacy fabric limits it, a blackout fabric removes it. If keeping the view matters more to you than total cover, lead with that at the estimate and the fabric choice follows from it.

Mesh is woven, so yes. Air moves through the weave while the weave breaks up the view, which is a trade a solid panel or a garden wall cannot make. A more open weave moves more air and covers less. A tighter weave covers more and moves less. On a covered patio most people land somewhere in the middle, because a space you cannot feel a breeze in stops being a space you want to sit in.

Only if you choose insect mesh, which is a different fabric from privacy mesh. Privacy fabric is woven for cover, and while it is not an open doorway, it is not built as a barrier to insects either. The same housing, tracks and motor take either fabric, so this is a fabric decision at the estimate rather than a different product. If bugs are the main thing you are solving, start with our page on patio bug and insect screens.

With the right track system, yes, and with the sense to retract them in a real blow. Zip side-retention tracks lock the fabric into the rails so it stays taut instead of billowing or pulling loose, which is what matters on a wide span. Even so, the safest place for any screen in a serious gust is up in its housing, and a wind sensor retracts it automatically. Wind damage is excluded from the screen warranty, with no wind speed threshold, which is exactly why the sensor exists.

Often, yes, and it is worth knowing before your screens arrive rather than after. Rolling screen fabric is a woven textile stored on a roll, so light wrinkling can be a normal characteristic of the material rather than a defect. Your specialist raises it at the quote instead of leaving you to find it on install day. If what you are looking at seems like more than that, call us and we will come and look at it.

The manufacturer warranty runs 10 years on the fabric against fading, 5 years on the motor, 5 years on the extrusions and parts, 2 years on the electronics, and 1 year on the installation labor. Fabric carries the longest term because fading is what this climate does to a textile first. Excluded: wind damage, closing the screen on an object, unauthorized modification, misuse, neglect, and acts of God. After the first year, covered parts stay covered but labor for a repair becomes the customer's responsibility.

Within 4 weeks of your deposit, or we send you $500. Your install date is confirmed in writing before we leave your home, and your eligibility is confirmed in writing before you place a deposit, never after. The window applies when you choose from the colors already stocked here in the Valley. Any other color in the range is still yours, on standard lead time instead. The full terms are on the 4-Week Install Guarantee page.

From us, across the whole Valley, with our own crews rather than a subcontractor. We measure and install in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria and Surprise, and in the communities between them. Rolling screens are a Metro Phoenix product for us, so this is a local service fitted to your openings rather than something shipped to you in a box. Roll-A-Shield has been a Valley company since 1979 and holds Arizona contractor license ROC 342265.