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Screens can help keep out the sun, keep out pests like mosquitoes, and provide some privacy while allowing you to enjoy the outdoors. When building a screen enclosure, you'll want to make sure you choose the best type of screen for your purposes. Here are some of the different places you may want to build a screen enclosure on your property.
1. Porch or deck
A screened porch is one of the most popular uses for screen enclosures. You can remodel an open deck by adding screens all around it, or you can turn an enclosed deck into a screened one by replacing walls or windows with screens.
Screened porches can provide a great shaded, insect-free area to hang out in the summertime. If you'd like to exclude the smallest insects or provide the most shade and privacy, you'll want to choose more tightly woven screens. If your priority is maximizing airflow, you'll want to choose more loosely woven screens.
2. Outdoor pool
An outdoor pool is another area where you don't want to deal with bugs, making a screen enclosure for your outdoor area a great idea. And of course, the screen enclosure can also increase privacy. The color, density, and material of the screens you choose can affect how much shade and how much privacy they provide.
3. Shadehouse for plants
A screen enclosure can be great for your plants as well. Although many plants love full sun, in some areas of the country, the sun's intensity can become extreme, and a shadehouse may help the plants deal with this extreme heat and sun in the hottest parts of summer. Or you can use the shadehouse to help delicate seedlings adapt to outdoor conditions.
A shadehouse can also be helpful if you're growing plants that love shade (such as low-light ferns) but you don't have many trees or other sources of shade on your property.
4. Pet or livestock areas
A pet or livestock shelter area can also make use of screen enclosures for shade purposes. For instance, if you have livestock out in a pasture area, you could use a dense, heat-blocking screen enclosure to give them somewhere to get out of the sun. Or if they already have a barn but their watering trough is in the sun, a screen enclosure could be useful to help keep their water cool and fresh.
These are just some examples of where you can use screen enclosures on your property to provide heat protection, comfort, insect protection, privacy, shade, and other benefits for yourself and your family as well as plants, livestock, and pets.
To learn more, contact a screen enclosure supplier.
Share26 March 2021
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