COMPARISON CHART
Our Product vs The Others

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	Our Retractable Screens	The Others
Amount of Screen	Our screen housing contains 54 inches of screen material, allowing plenty of extra screen to absorb the impact in the event the screen gets walked through.	Others contain 40-45 inches of screen material; this can be a problem if the screen gets walked through, on a 36” wide door there would only be 4 to 9 inches of extra screen available. When walked through, the screen unwinds absorbing the impact, with only 4 to 9 extra inches available, the screen is more likely to reach the end and be torn away from the core resulting in a costly repair.
Screen Cassette (Housing)	We have one of the smallest screen cassettes on the market (Approx.1½ inches in diameter) and are all fully enclosed, the small size and enclosed design allows recessed mounting that will blend naturally to your door.	Other brand screen cassettes are large & bulky, and some are a U shaped design (meaning the housing is open on the back side), this design requires the housing to be surface mounted so the screen roll isn’t left exposed on the back side.
Recess mount vs Surface mount.	Recess mount design: This type of installation has the screen housing mounting inside of the doorframe, so it visually becomes a continuation of the trim. This makes for a much nicer looking installation; it actually looks factory as though it came with the door.	Surface mount design: This type of installation requires the screen housing to be mounted on top of the trim that goes around your door. Covering up the decorative trim results in a bulky aftermarket look, which takes away from the appearance of your door.
Keeping the bugs out.	Our screens are designed to keep all the bugs out! The top and bottom tracks have a double row of brushes that encase the screen fabric (Similar to how your car window rolls up between the felts) this insures that crawling insects are kept out of the home. Our screens also feature a full length non-metal magnet from top to bottom on the door jamb, providing a solid grip & seal. All this provides a complete seal all the way around your door, keeping all flying and crawling insects out!	Other brands the screen hangs loose on the top & bottom tracks, allowing insects to crawl past the screen into your home. They also use small metal magnets to hold the screen to the jamb, these metal magnets are prone to corrosion and can lose their grip, allowing a gust of wind to unexpectedly open the screen.
If the home experiences any settling	Our screens pull-bar is a free-floating design that allows plenty of up and down clearance in its tracks. This design insures smooth operation of the screens pull-bar in the event the doorway or the home experiences any settling.	Other screen pull-bars are fixed to the top & bottom tracks, if there's any settling of the home, the pull bar can start to bind between the two tracks, resulting in sticking or restricted movement of the pull bar. This type of system often requires a frequent spray of silicone lubricant to operate smoothly.
How well they handle walkthroughs ( It Does Happen! )	Because our screens pull-bar is flexible and a free-floating design; when walked through, the pull-bar will flex and pop out of its tracks and retract, saving it and the screen from damage. In the event of a walkthrough, just re-insert the pull-bar into its tracks and your screen is ready for use again without any repair bill.	Other designs are more prone to damage and need of repair when walked through. Because the screen pull-bar is rigid and is fixed to the top & bottom tracks. When walked through, the pull-bar holds the screen in place, making the material more vulnerable to being damaged, along with possible breakage of the pull-bars mounting clips that connect it to the top & bottom tracks.

Bottom line; if you're planning to spend this kind of money on a screen door.....
It should be durable, look nice & keep all the bugs out!

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