What is the best motorized screen for a Lakewood Ranch?
For Lakewood Ranch homes, the MagnaTrack motorized retractable screen is the most popular upgrade over builder-grade screening. It is hurricane-rated, retracts completely out of sight, and operates on a remote. Lakewood Ranch homeowners choose it because the magnetic edge-retention track holds the screen flat and survives Florida wind, unlike the standard screens that come with most new builds. Shutter and Shade Source coordinates installs with Lakewood Ranch builders and is the official MagnaTrack dealer for the community.
Lakewood Ranch is the top-selling master-planned community in the country, which means a lot of new construction and a lot of homeowners discovering the same thing about a year after move-in: the screening their builder included is the bare minimum. It does its basic job for a while, then it sags, the mesh loosens, and the late-day sun still bakes the lanai. The MagnaTrack screen is the upgrade that fixes all of that at once.
These are motorized retractable screens, so the daily experience is simple. Push a button and they come down for shade, bug protection, or storm cover. Push it again and they roll up into a slim housing under the roofline and disappear. The fabric is a real outdoor mesh that cuts a large share of the sun’s heat and UV, which in a community like Lakewood Ranch with big west-facing lanais makes a measurable difference in how usable the space is at the end of the day.
How MagnaTrack screens work with Lakewood Ranch builders
One of the practical advantages here is timing. Shutter and Shade Source coordinates directly with the major Lakewood Ranch builders, so a lot of homeowners arrange their MagnaTrack screens around the closing timeline and have them installed before or right after move-in. A family in one of the Esplanade-area neighborhoods did exactly that, and instead of living with builder screens for a year before upgrading, they started with the motorized MagnaTrack system from day one.
The reason these hold up where builder screens do not comes back to the track. The magnetic edge-retention system locks the screen into reinforced side rails, so it stays flat and holds against wind instead of bowing out and pulling loose. It is also hurricane-rated, which a standard pool-cage screen is not, so the same screens that give shade and bug control on a normal day double as storm protection for the lanai opening.
Across Sarasota County, including the Lakewood Ranch villages that straddle the Manatee County line, MagnaTrack earns a 4.9-star average from verified homeowners. If you are in a new Lakewood Ranch build and your screens already sag, or you want to skip the builder-grade phase entirely, this is the upgrade to make.
Shutter and Shade Source installs MagnaTrack motorized screens throughout Lakewood Ranch and Sarasota County. Call (800) 483-5404 or use the form on this page for a free in-home estimate.
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