Your garage is the biggest room in the house that you can't actually use — open the door and every mosquito and gnat off the lake moves in with you. A motorized retractable garage door screen fixes that. Push a button and a tight, side-tracked screen drops across the opening: bugs, leaves, and critters stay out, the breeze moves through, and during the day you can see out while nobody sees in. Push it again and it disappears overhead. We build them, install them, and back the motor and screen for 20 years.
Think about what that bay could be with the door open and the bugs locked out — a workshop where the sawdust blows through instead of hanging in the air, a gym with daylight and a breeze, the spot where the kids and the dog hang out on a July afternoon while you get something done. A garage door screen makes the space livable. Push a button and the screen drops across the opening and seals down both sides. Bugs, leaves, and whatever else wanders through a Wisconsin yard stay on their side of the mesh.
The motor is the part that makes or breaks one of these — a cheap one is why people stop using their screens after a season or two. Ours is the Maverick, which Apollo builds in-house. You run it from a remote, a wall switch, or your phone. It's quiet, it stops right where you want it, and we warranty it for 20 years — most garage screen companies cover the motor for one to three.
A screen hanging loose across a 16-foot garage opening is a curtain, not a screen — the first gust flaps it around and every mosquito finds the gap along the edge. Tracks fix that. Both sides of the screen ride inside an aluminum channel bolted to the opening, so there's nothing to slip past, nothing to flap, and nothing for a storm rolling across the lake to catch and tear.
The mesh is captured the full height of the opening. No slack. No edge for the wind to grab. The screen moves smoothly and stops flat, and when it's fully lowered it seals against the track on both sides — no gaps, no daylight around the edges, no bug-sized loopholes. Just a clean, tight screen wall across the whole opening.
Here's the part nobody expects: during the day, the solar mesh works one way. Standing in your garage, you look straight through it — the driveway, the kids on the sidewalk, whoever's pulling in. From the street, all anyone sees is a clean dark screen. Your tools, your gym, your project car, the general state of your garage — none of it is on display.
That's what makes the garage actually usable as a room. You can work out at 7 AM, run the table saw on a Saturday, or watch the game with the door up — connected to the neighborhood without being the neighborhood's entertainment. And the same mesh knocks down the sun and glare before it reaches you, so a west-facing garage stops baking in the afternoon.
The fabric is warrantied for 20 years. Not 1, not 3 — twenty. Because it's built to live outdoors in Wisconsin sun and humidity, not sag and fade in a couple of seasons.
The big names in garage door screens warrant their product for 1 to 3 years. We cover the motor and the fabric for 20. That's not a marketing line — it's in writing, and we can stand behind it because we build the product ourselves.
Apollo's proprietary motor system. We designed it. We warrant it. For 20 years.
Premium exterior-grade solar mesh. Rated for Wisconsin sun, humidity, and wind — and pet-resistant SuperScreen is available. Warranted for 20 years because we stand behind what we build.
We build it. We ship it. We install it. No distributors, no middlemen, no franchise. What you order is what we make — for you, to your measurements.
Apollo manufactures its own screens in-house. We don't buy product from a wholesaler and resell it. We source our own components, build to your order after we take your measurements, and ship straight to our installation crew.
That's how we can offer 20 years. A company that doesn't control its own product can't make that promise. We can.
A closed garage in July is a hot box that smells like gas cans and lawn fertilizer. Crack the door for air and you've invited in every mosquito between here and the lake — plus the chipmunks scouting for a winter address. A screen for the garage ends the trade-off. Door up, screen down: the air moves through, the fumes and humidity clear out, and everything with wings or paws stays outside.
That steady airflow matters beyond comfort. It dries out the damp that feeds mold and mildew, keeps paint and chemical fumes from building up while you work, and dumps the trapped heat that turns the garage into an oven by mid-afternoon — all without running a fan or the AC.
Garage door screens run from $40 magnetic curtains to fully motorized systems. Here's the honest version of how they stack up.
| Feature | Apollo Motorized | Magnetic Mesh Curtain | Manual Pull-Down Screen | Other Motorized Brands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operation | ✓ Remote, wall switch, or app | Walk-through slit | Pull down by hand | ✓ Button/remote |
| Side-track guided system | ✓ Standard | None — hangs loose | ✓ Spring tracks | ✓ Standard |
| Frame | ✓ Heavy-gauge 6063 aluminum, ~2× wall thickness | Velcro & magnets | Standard aluminum | Standard aluminum — can flex on wide openings |
| Handles a 16-ft double garage | ✓ One screen, no seam | Sags & blows open | Heavy pull, tedious | ✓ Yes |
| One-way privacy mesh | ✓ Available | No | Limited | Rarely offered |
| Pet-resistant mesh | ✓ SuperScreen | Tears easily | No | No |
| Motor & fabric warranty | ✓ 20 years, both | None | 1 year | 2–3 years |
| Typical lifespan | ✓ 15–20 years | 1–2 seasons | 5–10 years | Varies |
We handle everything from measurement to motor wiring. Your garage door keeps working exactly as it always has.
We come out to your home anywhere in our Wisconsin service area — Lake Geneva, Williams Bay, Fontana, Delavan, Elkhorn, and the surrounding communities. We measure your garage opening, check the headroom around your opener tracks, and show you mesh and frame samples in person. About 45 minutes, no obligation.
Your garage door screen is built to your exact opening — width, height, mesh type (solar, privacy, or pet-resistant SuperScreen), frame color, and control preference. Nothing off the shelf, nothing trimmed to fit.
Our Wisconsin-based crew handles mounting, track installation, motor wiring, and control setup — typically 2 to 4 hours. We do a full walkthrough before we leave, including the one rule that matters: screen up before the garage door moves.
| Opening | Typical Size | What to Know |
|---|---|---|
| Single-car garage | 8–10 ft wide × 7–8 ft tall | The most common is 9' × 7'. Straightforward install, one compact housing. |
| Two-car garage | 14–18 ft wide × 7–8 ft tall | The most common is 16' × 7'. One screen, one motor — no seam down the middle. |
| Oversized / RV bay | Up to 30 ft wide | Same slim housing, custom-quoted after measurement. |
| Headroom needed | 3–4 inches above the opening | We check clearance around your garage door tracks, opener, and lights at the free consultation. Low-headroom and arched openings get a custom solution. |
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Powder-coated aluminum frames in white, bronze, black, and custom colors. Solar mesh fabric in multiple openness ratings and tones. We bring samples to your consultation so you can see them in your actual space before committing.
"Put the motorized screen on the double garage and it turned into the room we use most. Door's up from May to October — workshop on one side, the kids' stuff on the other, and zero mosquitoes. One button and it's sealed. Should have done it years ago."
"My gym is in the garage and the screen changed everything. Air moves through, daylight comes in, and from the driveway you can't see a thing — you just see the screen. Neighbors keep asking about it. Motor is quiet and the install crew was in and out in an afternoon."
"We tried one of those magnetic mesh curtains first — lasted one summer. This is a different animal. Tracks on both sides, nothing flaps in the wind off the lake, and the dog hasn't gotten through it either. They measured, built it to fit, and it looks like it came with the house."
Free estimate, no obligation. We come out, measure your garage opening, show you samples, and give you a real number. Takes about 45 minutes.
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Garage Door Screen Installation Wisconsin — Areas We Serve
Lake Geneva · Williams Bay · Fontana · Delavan · Elkhorn · Walworth · Genoa City · Pell Lake · Lake Como · Twin Lakes · Burlington · East Troy · Whitewater · Darien · Sharon · and communities across Wisconsin
