Motorized Retractable Screens
Screens that come down at the press of a button and disappear when you want the view — for lanais, patio covers and pergolas across Jacksonville and St. Johns County.
A screened room when you want one, an open patio when you do not
A motorized retractable screen rolls down from a housing above the opening and back up again at the press of a button. St. Johns Outdoors designs and manages motorized screen projects for covered lanais, patio covers and pergolas across Jacksonville and St. Johns County.
Fixed screen is a trade. You keep the mosquitoes out and you give up a little of the view, all day, every day. A retractable screen stops making you choose: up for the open afternoon, down when the sun drops into your eyes or the bugs come out at dusk.
We build throughout Jacksonville and St. Johns County — Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, Julington Creek, Shearwater, Durbin Crossing and eTown among them — north to Fernandina Beach, south to Palm Coast, and west through Orange Park, Fleming Island, Green Cove Springs and Middleburg.
Plan the screens with the structure
A motorized screen needs three things from the building around it: a header to carry the housing, something straight for the side tracks to run on, and power at the opening. All three are easy to provide while a cover is being designed and awkward to add once it is finished.
So if a patio cover, a pergola or a lanai enclosure is already part of the plan, tell us at the estimate that you might want motorized screens, even if it is for later. Leaving room for the housing and running the power during the build costs very little. Retrofitting it does not.
What people want them for
The screen fabric is chosen for the problem. Tell us which of these is yours and we will bring the options to the estimate.
Insects
The usual reason. Screen down at dusk, dinner outside, nobody slapping at their ankles.
Low sun and glare
A west-facing patio in late afternoon. A denser screen takes the edge off the sun without closing the space in.
Privacy
A screen you can see out of more easily than the neighbours can see into, down only when you want it.
Keeping the view
Up and out of sight the rest of the time, so the opening is an opening again.
How a motorized screen project runs
In-person estimate
We measure each opening and look at the header, the posts and where power can come from.
Written quote
Your quote follows promptly after the visit, with every opening and the screen choice listed on it.
Sequence it
If a cover, a pergola or a patio is part of the same project, the screens go on one schedule with it.
Fit & walkthrough
Once the screens are in, we run each one with you and show you how the controls work.
FAQ
Motorized screen questions, answered
Call us — a real person answers weekdays 9–5.
Call (904) 925-3089A motorized retractable screen is a screen panel that rolls down out of a housing at the top of an opening and rolls back up into it, driven by a motor instead of by hand. The edges run in tracks on each side so the screen stays put when it is down. You get a screened room when you want one and an open patio when you do not.
Anywhere there is a framed opening with something solid above it to carry the housing. The common ones are the open sides of a covered lanai, a patio cover or a pergola, and the opening onto a pool deck. Each opening is measured individually, which is why the estimate is done in person at the house.
Patio covers & screen roomsThey do a different job. A fixed screen enclosure is always there, which is what you want around a pool. A motorized screen is for a space where you want the view and the breeze most of the time and the screen only when the bugs or the low sun arrive. Plenty of homes have both: fixed screen on the pool side, motorized on the living side.
Screen enclosures & pergolasOften, yes. What matters is the structure around the opening: there has to be a header to mount the housing to, posts or walls for the side tracks, and a way to get power to the motor. We look at all three at the estimate and tell you plainly if an opening is not a good candidate.
It depends on how many openings there are, how wide and tall each one is, the screen fabric and what it takes to get power to them, which is why we do not publish a price list or a range. Your written quote follows promptly after the in-person visit, with each opening listed on it. Military and first responder discounts available.
Book a free estimateWant the view and the screen?
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Show us the openings. We come out, measure each one properly, and put a real number in writing promptly after the visit.