Choosing the Right Front Door Screen for Your Home

There are many options and choices you have for your front door screen. You can choose anything from a traditional screen door to a storm door, a security door, or even the more modern choice of a retractable screen door. I, of course, am biased, so read this with that in mind. I think the best choice for a screen for a front door is obviously a retractable screen door but let me walk you through some of the other options, and their advantages and disadvantages on a front door in particular.

Security Front Screen Door

Security screen doors have come a long way. Especially as screen door solution for front doors. Let’s start with looks. In the old days, a security screen was not a complete eye sore. Usually bars and beams over a steel mesh that looked more like you were prisoner behind your front door than a screen to keep people out. The modern security screen is still something of a personal decision with regards to taste. With laser cutting technology you can now make a statement with your front door screen. Maybe some flamingos? Personal statements aside, you would choose to use a security front door screen for just that, security. This begs 2 questions in my mind:

1. If you don’t feel safe with the door open, are you still going to open it with a screen on it?
2. You are only as secure as the weakest entry point to your home. If you are that concerned about security in your home, screening the front door is not enough. You need to use the same level of material on the windows and doors around the whole house.

Storm Door with Screens for Front Doors

Storm doors are usually made of aluminum, wood, or sometimes steel. They feature tempered glass to let light in when you open your front door, but keep out cold, wind, rain, and yes, storms. They are hinged and always present in front of your front door.

Modern storm doors have screen inserts. You can remove a piece of the door, usually the glass, and replace it with a screen mesh. It’s now a screen door! Well, at least a small one. Here’s the thing, who opens their front door in winter to let light in? What is the point of the storm door? I know your neighbors have one, but how often do you use it as intended?

The answer is probably not very often, but you do use it 100 percent of the time. What I mean by that is you must always open your storm door, and THEN your front door to get in and out of the house. Lots of fun when it’s raining or snowing, and even more fun if you have groceries in both hands.

Retractable Screen Door for Front Doors

What if you have a screen there when you need it, but it’s out of the way when you don’t. That’s what a retractable screen does. Never wrestle with 2 doors to get in your house again. Retractable and virtually invisible in the right environment, you get a breeze without bugs Your front door with a screen door gives you a fantastic cross breeze to the back of your home. Remember I’m biased, we are selling the best retractable screen door. It works as a great screen door for dutch doors, too. Go ahead. Air it out. You’ll be glad you did.

Pictures of Front Door Screen Doors

Author: Sam Steinberg