Motorized Retractable Screens
Serving homeowners throughout Metro Detroit from Farmington Hills, Tarnow Doors installs motorized retractable screens for garages, patios, covered porches, and large exterior openings.
Since 1966, our family owned company has helped homeowners choose exterior door and screen systems that fit properly, operate smoothly, and stand up to Michigan weather. Each opening is measured carefully so the housing, tracks, and screen operate without interfering with the garage door, trim, or surrounding structure.
Mothfire Brewing Company
Motorized screens installed at Mothfire Brewing Company show how retractable screens can create a more comfortable open air space while helping manage insects, airflow, and changing weather conditions. The project also demonstrates how custom fitted screens can cover a large opening and retract cleanly when the space needs to remain fully open.
What Is a Motorized Retractable Screen?
A motorized retractable screen is a powered screen system that lowers across a garage, patio, porch, or large opening when needed and retracts into a protective housing when the space is open. The screen allows airflow and visibility while helping reduce insects, debris, glare, and direct sun exposure.
Where Motorized Screens Can Be Installed
Garages
Motorized garage screens can make a single or double car garage more comfortable for hobbies, exercise, entertaining, workshops, or everyday use while allowing airflow and helping keep insects out.
Patios and Covered Porches
Retractable patio and porch screens can add shade, ventilation, and insect protection without permanently closing off the outdoor space.
Large Exterior Openings
Motorized screen systems can also be fitted to larger openings where a clean retractable screen is preferred over a fixed enclosure.
Benefits of Motorized Retractable Screens
Panorama™ Retractable Screen Systems
Tarnow Doors installs Panorama motorized retractable screen systems for garages, patios, and large exterior openings. Each system is measured and fitted to the opening, with the housing mounted outside the garage or structural opening to preserve interior space.
- Panorama Series: Designed for double-car garages and large openings measuring 11–24 feet wide and up to 13 feet tall.
- Panorama Lite: A low-profile option for single-car or golf-cart garages with openings up to 13 feet wide and 9 feet tall.
- Exterior mounting: The housing is mounted outside the opening to help preserve interior garage space.
- Everyday comfort: Screens allow ventilation while helping keep insects and debris out of the space.
Panorama Lite Retractable Screens
Panorama Lite is designed for single car garages, golf cart garages, and smaller exterior openings up to 13 feet wide and 9 feet tall. Its compact exterior housing is less than three inches wide, creating a lower profile installation with minimal impact on the interior garage space.
See two motorized retractable patio screens lower into place on a Tarnow Doors installation.
How the Screen Operates
Motorized retractable screens lower and retract using a powered control system. When raised, the mesh rolls into a protective housing so the patio, garage, or porch opening remains accessible.
This Tarnow Doors installation shows two motorized patio screens lowering together across a large covered opening. Tarnow can explain the available control options, mounting requirements, and operation during the measurement and estimate process.
Motorized Screen Project Gallery
See how motorized retractable screens can make garages, patios, and large openings more usable during Michigan’s warmer months. These project examples show screen movement, exterior-mounted housings, mesh visibility, and how the system retracts when not in use.
Double door garage application
Three screen patio application
Patio screen retracting, exterior view
Four screens on a patio retracting, interior view
Commercial retractable screens lowering in a restaurant
Retractable screen separating the kitchen and living area
Retractable screen lifting across a covered patio
Retractable screen lowering across a covered front porch
Motorized Retractable Screen FAQs
Tarnow Doors helps homeowners understand where motorized retractable screens can be installed, how they operate, what spaces they support, and what to expect from measurement and installation.
Can motorized screens be installed on an existing garage?
Many existing single and double car garages can support an exterior mounted motorized screen, depending on opening dimensions, clearance, trim, siding, and surrounding construction. Tarnow Doors measures the opening and confirms whether the system can be installed without interfering with the garage door
How do I control a motorized retractable screen?
Motorized screens can be lowered or retracted using the control system provided with the installation. Available controls may include wall switches, remotes, or other compatible operation options depending on the screen system selected.
Can motorized screens be used on patios and covered porches?
Yes. Motorized retractable screens can be installed on many patios, covered porches, and large exterior openings where the structure provides suitable mounting space and clearance
Do motorized screens provide shade and insect protection?
Yes. The screen mesh can help reduce direct sun exposure, glare, insects, and airborne debris while allowing airflow and visibility through the opening
What happens to the screen when it is not in use?
When retracted, the screen rolls into a protective exterior housing. This keeps the opening accessible and helps protect the mesh when the screen is not needed
Can I use a motorized screen during severe weather?
Motorized retractable screens should generally be raised during high winds, storms, snow, ice, or other severe weather. Tarnow Doors can explain normal use and care recommendations for the selected system
Visit Our Farmington Hills Showroom
Visit our Farmington Hills showroom to learn more about motorized retractable screens, garage doors, entry doors, storm doors, and opener systems.
Tarnow Doors serves homeowners throughout Metro Detroit, including Farmington Hills, Novi, West Bloomfield, Northville, Livonia, Southfield, and surrounding communities.
Send Us a Message
- Main Office: 248-458-6707
- Service Support: 248-478-9060
- Tarnow Doors, 23701 Halsted Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48335
- Office & Showroom Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm,Saturday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Sunday closed
- Primary Focus: We are located near I-696 and Haggerty Road
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