The Santa Susanas keep the ocean air on the other side of the pass, which is why your patio sits at 100 while Camarillo is under fog. A PowerScreen comes down across the open side and hands the space back — motorized, running in tracks so the wind has nothing to grab, made to the exact size of your opening. We build them and install them ourselves, and we stand behind the motor and the fabric for 20 years. Nobody else does that.
Half the houses out here came with a California room the builder left open on two or three sides. It photographs beautifully and it sits empty from June to September. A motorized screen fills that opening — it rolls out of a housing tucked up under the beam, travels down tracks on both sides, and stops wherever you let off the button. About twenty seconds and the room works. Same fix for a west-facing patio slab or a covered porch that gets hammered every afternoon.
Whether you actually end up using it comes down to the motor. Ours is the Maverick, built by Apollo, and it runs off a remote, a wall switch, or your phone — from the kitchen, from the pool, from the far end of the yard. You hear it start and then you mostly forget it's there. Most companies will cover a motor for five to seven years. We cover the motor and the fabric for twenty.
Anyone who's been through a fall here knows Simi is a wind town. The Santa Anas funnel down through the pass and the canyons and they don't blow for an hour, they blow for two or three days. That's what finishes off an ordinary hanging shade — it billows, it frays along the edge, and by the second season nobody bothers lowering it. Side tracks capture both edges of the fabric inside an aluminum channel, so there's no loose edge for the wind to get under.
The fabric runs inside vertical aluminum channels bolted to each side of the opening. Captured the full height. No slack. No edge for the wind to catch. The shade moves smoothly and stops flat — whether it's calm or gusting at 30 mph. When fully lowered it seals against the track frame on both sides. No gaps. No light leaking around the edges. Just a clean, flat wall of shade.
Come over the grade from Camarillo in August and you can watch the number climb ten degrees before you're through the pass. That's the whole story of summer in this valley. The mountains hold the marine layer on the coastal side, so we get the sun without the relief — upper 90s and low 100s for weeks at a stretch, and it's still 95 when you get home at six. West-facing slabs take the worst of it and keep radiating heat long after dinner.
Put a screen across the open side and the sun stops at the fabric instead of at you. The solar mesh cuts the UV and kills the glare but still breathes, so you get shade without sealing the patio into a box. You can see out; the heat stays out. Lower it around three and the space is comfortable by the time the table's set.
The fabric is warrantied for 20 years. Not 5, not 7 — twenty. Because it's designed to live outdoors in Simi Valley sun, not fade out and sag in three seasons.
Most shade companies warrant the motor for 5 years and the fabric for 7. We cover both 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 relentless inland sun, heat, and wind. 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.
Six feet is the fence limit on most lots around here, and six feet doesn't accomplish much when the house behind you sits higher on the slope and its upstairs windows look straight down into your yard. A screen closes that sightline off at the patio, which is where you're actually sitting. No permit, no framing, nothing bolted up for good — down when you want the yard to yourself, up when you want it open again.
The fabric keeps people from seeing in but still lets the air through, so you're not trading privacy for a stuffy patio. Lower them when you want to be left alone, raise them when you want the open yard back. Takes about three seconds.
There are a few ways to shade a Simi Valley patio. Here's how motorized patio shades with side tracks stack up against the alternatives.
| Feature | Apollo Patio Shades | Fixed Screen Enclosure | Shade Sail | Manual Roll Shades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motorized one-button operation | ✓ Standard | None | None | Manual only |
| Side-track guided system | ✓ Standard | ✓ Framed | No tracks | No tracks |
| Retracts completely out of sight | ✓ Fully | Permanent structure | Manual removal | Manual only |
| Custom-built to your opening | ✓ Every unit | ✓ Custom | Standard sizes | Standard sizes |
| Privacy + sun block in one | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | Overhead only | Partial |
| Local Simi Valley installation team | ✓ Simi Valley-based | Varies | Self-install | Self-install |
| 20-year motor & fabric warranty | ✓ Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
We handle everything from measurement to motor wiring. You don't coordinate a thing.
Someone comes out and looks at the actual opening — Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Agoura Hills, Camarillo, and over the hill into Chatsworth and Porter Ranch. We measure, bring fabric so you can hold it up against the afternoon light and see what it really does, and tell you the number. Around 45 minutes, and you don't owe us anything.
Your patio shades are built to your exact dimensions — width, height, fabric openness rating, frame color, motor type, and control preference. Nothing off the shelf.
Our Simi Valley-based crew handles mounting, track installation, motor wiring, and control setup. Most single-opening jobs take a few hours. We do a full walkthrough before we leave so you know exactly how everything works.
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.
"Our patio faces due west and from three o'clock on we just didn't go out there. One screen across the open end and that was the whole fix — we're out there most nights now. I'll admit I doubted it would hold up, because we get beat up by wind on this side of the valley every fall. Two seasons in and it hasn't budged."
"We had one of those California rooms that's open on two sides. Lovely, never used it. Now there are screens on both openings and it's where everyone winds up standing. The neighbors behind us are up on the slope looking down, so we picked a darker fabric and that took care of it without making the room dark."
"Measured one week, installed the next. They came when they said they'd come, took the packaging with them, and nobody tried to talk me into anything I hadn't asked about. Honestly that's most of what I want out of a contractor. The thing works and I've stopped thinking about it."
Free estimate, no obligation. We come out, measure your openings, show you samples, and give you a real number. Takes about 45 minutes.
Tell us about your project. We'll follow up within the hour with real numbers — not a ballpark. No runaround.
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Motorized Patio Shade & Screen Installation — Areas We Serve
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