A pleated screen folds into a one-inch bar at the edge of your door. Pull it across and it covers spans up to thirteen feet. No motor, no spring, nothing to slam.
Sliding · French · atrium · windows · oversized openings
For twenty years, homes across Europe have used a screen most Americans have never encountered.
It doesn't slide on a track. It doesn't swing on hinges. The mesh is folded like an accordion, and when you're not using it, the whole thing collapses into an aluminum bar barely wider than your thumb.
Below is one door in three positions. No spring, no motor. No rollers to seize, no cord to snap, no track to clean out. The pleats do the work that mechanisms do in every other screen.
One hand on the handle bar. The mesh unfolds behind it at whatever speed you walk. Magnetic contacts hold it shut where the two halves meet.
Release it halfway and it stays halfway. The two halves need not meet at all — leave a gap to walk through and it holds there, because no spring is pulling it back.
Pushed back, it stacks into a bar about an inch deep against the jamb. The bottom rail lies flat — sweep over it, roll over it, walk it barefoot in the dark.
Doors are most of what we fit, but the mechanism does not care how big the opening is. On a window it is the same pleated mesh in the same slim aluminium frame — just shorter.
It draws sideways across the sash and stops wherever you let go, so you can open the window a hand's width at night and leave the screen exactly that far across. Folded back it is a bar at the side of the frame, thin enough that it disappears into the casing.
Bedrooms and kitchens are where these earn their keep — the rooms where you actually want the window open and the bugs out.
The product is difficult to describe and obvious to watch. This is a standard installation on an oversized slider.
Pleated screen across a full-width slider: drawn closed, held at position, and the room behind it in ordinary use.
On a French door or a slider the screen is built as two halves — one from each jamb, meeting at a magnetic bar down the middle. Draw them apart and each half folds back on itself against its own frame.
What is left is a bar about an inch deep at each side, sitting flush against the casing it was fitted to. No panel parked across half your view. No frame standing in the opening. From a few feet back, most people cannot tell the door has a screen on it at all.
This is the part that sells it. Every screen looks acceptable when it is closed. The question worth asking is what it looks like the rest of the day — and the answer here is: like nothing.
You paid for the lanai, the pool deck, the doors that open onto them. And then, most evenings of the year, you keep those doors closed — because the alternative is mosquitoes in the living room.
The screen door that came with the house doesn't fix this. It's beige aluminum riding a track that fills with sand. It halves your view whether it's open or shut. The rollers seize, the frame racks out of square, and it won't span a French door at any price.
A pleated screen fixes it by disappearing. In the morning it's a one-inch bar at the edge of the frame. In the evening it's an invisible wall of fiberglass, and the door behind it is standing wide open.
Then you draw it across, and it's simply there — floor to sill, jamb to jamb, up to thirteen feet in a single span. Look at it straight on and you see the view. Look at where it lives the rest of the day and you see almost nothing at all.
That is the entire product. Everything else about it — the aluminum, the fiberglass, the magnets in the meeting bar — exists to make that one behavior reliable for twenty years.
Free measure anywhere in Orlando and 25 miles out. Most openings quoted on the spot.
Sliding doors, French doors, atrium doors, bedroom walls of glass. Same system, cut to the opening.
Installations across sliding, French and atrium openings.
Manufactured in Turkey — which supplies most of Europe's pleated screens — and cut to your opening before it ships.
The same door, photographed twice. This is the difference the product is actually selling.
Every screen is cut to one opening. A quote before anyone has measured that opening is a guess, and guesses are how people end up with a screen that does not fit.
So the order is simple. We come out, measure the opening, and tell you the price standing there — usually within a few minutes, and there is no charge for the visit whether you go ahead or not.
What moves the number: how wide the opening is, whether it is a single door or a pair meeting in the middle, the mesh you choose, and whether you want the thresholdless bottom rail. A motorised retractable screen in this area runs several thousand dollars for the same opening. This is not that.
Windows, single doors, French doors, sliders and oversized openings all price differently. Call and describe the opening — we can usually give you a range on the phone before we drive out.
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We measure at no charge anywhere in Orlando and within 25 miles. Most openings are quoted on the spot and installed the same week.
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Magic Screen · a Maris Goods LLC company · Orlando, FL
