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4 Reasons why Phantom Screens make your furry friends lives better

January 30, 2025

Phantom Screens is like a superhero for your home, keeping pesky bugs at bay while creating a safe haven for your pets. Cleverly designed screens let the fresh breeze in, but not the unwanted critters, ensuring homeowners’ space is a bug-free and critter-free paradise while letting their pets enjoy the scenery.

Here are 4 reasons Phantoms Screens make your pet’s lives better:

1. The Purrfect Catio

Homeowners can expand their living space to the outdoors with Phantom Screens’ retractable door screens and retractable patio screens without having to do a large renovation on their homes.

Open the doors to let the air and light in while their pets are safe indoors, or lower the patio screens and create a new space ready for relaxation and rejuvenation. This purrfect cozy spot is where the whole family will enjoy, including the cats, making it the ultimate catio, which retired Hockey player Mike Weaver did for his home!

2. Climate Comforts

Let the light and fresh air in for passive cooling, or lower the screens on your covered patio space to help keep the climate just right. A patio space expands your home’s footprint and helps happy homeowners elongate the seasons to enjoy more agreeable temperatures. Add a screen door, open some windows, and let the airflow through your home for passive cooling, fresh air to enjoy scents and sounds, and the perfect sunny spot for catching rays.


3. Feline Friendly Fresh Air

Homeowners can create a space that helps their pets enjoy the fresh air and the sights and sounds of the neighborhood. The ultimate pet friendly space is made with just a press of a button or the slide of a door. Make your home pet – and human–friendly without compromising your home’s design. Check out #4 on how to help keep your pets secure!

4. Keeping pests out and pets in

Our captured edge option for retractable door screens provides ultimate protection. This solution helps prevent small pets from escaping, unwanted pests from entering, and mesh blowing out from the track. This captured edge option completely secures the mesh in the top and bottom tracks and will help give homeowners peace of mind without any extra bulk or distractibility from your home’s design.

These 4 ways together have created the perfect oasis for homeowners and their families while being assured their pets are safe. Whether they are entertaining, relaxing at home, or wanting fresh air for their home, they are confident that their screens are there to help make their lives just a little bit better.

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The Benefits

Mesh lock provides added protection for your peace of mind. In addition to the great benefits our door screens with floating edge provide—like allowing fresh air in and keeping bugs out—our latest option for door screens makes your life a little easier.

This new option keeps small pets like cats and small dogs in, critters and debris out, and prevents mesh blowing out from the track. Please be aware that while it’s ideal for smaller pets, it’s not designed to contain larger dogs or deter large intruders!

This captured edge option completely secures the mesh in the top and bottom tracks, helping you have peace of mind without any extra bulk or distractibility from your home’s design. Say goodbye to debris and mesh blowing out of the track, and hello to even more home comfort.

Added Protection

This new option prevents small pets from escaping and unwanted pests or critters from entering, all while keeping out debris and preventing the mesh from blowing out of the tracks.

Reinforced Mesh Corners

Reinforced mesh corners provide added stability and long-term durability, extending the life of your screen. So you can enjoy the scenery without worrying about the screen-ery.

Peace of Mind

The mesh lock option helps keep your small pets from escaping and other pests and critters from entering, providing homeowners peace of mind without sacrificing access to that fresh air feeling.

Product Features

Explore the Possibilities
If you’re looking for an added measure of protection and peace of mind, Phantom’s door screens with captured edge solution is the perfect choice.

Want to keep small pets in and debris out? We’ve got options! Our retractable door screens can now come with our captured edge solution that secures the mesh in the top and bottom tracks. This great solution prevents mesh from blowing out from the track.

Phantom’s door screens have an integrated quick-release thumb latch in the handle – making it easy to use, quiet to operate, and secure from unintended openings.

A single door screen can cover openings up to 4ft wide and 8ft high, while two screens can fit openings up to 8ft wide and 8ft high.
Have a door that’s taller or wider? Check out our oversized door screen with a captured edge.

Fits all door types including single, in-swing, out-swing, double-French and sliding patio doors.

Phantom’s door screens are available in one of our ten ready-to-order standard colors. Need more options? Decorative wood grain finishes and custom color options are also available, so your screen can effortlessly blend into your home design and style.

Phantom’s door screens with captured edge are available with insect mesh to keep those bugs at bay!

When you get your new screens installed, you’ll hardly notice the installation process. We stand proudly behind our stance on “never DIY, always WDIFY” (we do it for you). Besides, we know what we’re doing, we’ve had over 30 years to work out all the bugs (literally). Backed by our industry-leading limited lifetime warranty, having fresh air installed is easy-breeze-y.

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Mike Weaver and Carrie Rowan couldn’t enjoy the convenience of motorized screens without Phantom Screens’ integration with Somfy. Now they can adjust their outdoor space with ease and take the concept of a smart home to a new level.
 
Mike and Carrie made their outdoor dreams come true with the help of their local Phantom Screens authorized distributor. Ontario Screen Systems Inc., their local Phantom Screens expert for the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, helped Mike and Carrie pick the right products that would help solve their patio problems.

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