Large Opening Horizontal Screens in Chestermere
Screens Built for Chestermere's Wide Patio Openings
Plenty of homes around Chestermere Lake were built with wide sliding doors, folding glass walls, and covered patios that open straight onto the water view. A standard screen door was never going to span those. Our large opening horizontal screen covers openings a regular screen can’t reach, then rolls away into a slim housing when you want the view back.
How a Large Opening Horizontal Screen Works
The mesh travels horizontally out of a cassette mounted on one side of the opening and locks into a strike on the other. Pull it closed when the bugs come out, retract it when they don’t.
- Spans wide patio doors, folding walls, and covered outdoor rooms
- Retracts fully out of sight, so nothing blocks the view through winter
- Available as a manual pull or as motorized retractable screens on a remote or wall switch
- Low-profile bottom track you can walk over without catching a toe
Motorized versions get chosen often on the widest openings, where hand-pulling twenty feet of screen several times a night wears thin by August.
Built for Prairie Wind and a Short, Intense Bug Season
Chestermere sits at the edge of open prairie, and the wind rolling in off the fields east of town is a different animal than what a sheltered inner-city yard deals with. Chinooks can flip conditions in an afternoon. We account for that in how the housing and track are anchored, and we walk you through wind guidance at install instead of after the fact.
Mosquito season here is short and it does not mess around, especially close to the water. A wide screen means the whole patio door can stay open through July evenings without the lake bugs treating your living room as an extension of the yard.
Canadian-Made and Backed for the Long Haul
Every system we put in is manufactured in British Columbia, so mesh, hardware, and replacement parts come from within the country rather than sitting on a container somewhere. The screens carry a limited lifetime warranty, and we have been installing across the Calgary area for more than 16 years.
- Canadian-made components, built in BC
- Limited lifetime warranty on the screen system
- 16+ years of installs across Calgary and the surrounding towns
Colours That Match the House, Not Fight It
Newer Chestermere builds tend to run a tight exterior palette, and a screen housing that clashes with the trim is the first thing a guest notices. We offer 8 standard colours plus 18 diamond series powder coat finishes, so the cassette and track disappear into the door frame.
Why a Screen Specialist Instead of a Generalist
Screens are the only thing we do. That matters most on wide spans, where a few millimetres out of square shows up as mesh that drags, sags, or refuses to latch. Alongside our large opening horizontal screens, we handle retractable screen doors in Chestermere, repairs, and custom retractable window screens, so we see how these systems behave over years of Alberta weather rather than one install a season.
