Removable Screens for Screen Porch

Now that we've had some trees removed, we get a lot more wind at the cabin.  The wind ripped about six sections of  screen on the porch over the winter.  My husband wants to make custom-made removable screens for the top portion.  (The screening from the railing and below seems to take the wind better and not rip.) 

We had "no-see-'em" screening, which keeps out the bite-em-no-see-'ems and is a smaller mesh, which might be why the wind couldn't get through either.  Has anyone else made removable screens for their porch or do you keep repairing them from year to year?  It seems each section is just a hair different dimension-wise so we'd have to number each section to match it to its appropriate place.  So I guess that's our next project, after painting the cellar floor.

We have a screened porch also. We have removable plexiglass windows on one side and the others we cover with plastic. We've never had a problem and our porch takes quite the brunt of wind. Hope this helps.

Thanks, KariCabin, I hadn't thought about plastic or plexiglass.  I'll tell my husband about your setup.   Thanks for your help.

I don't have a screened in porch but I built a boat house (outdoor rec room) a couple of years ago and had to build it with a garage door facing the lake (code). I kept the garage door but found out that many of the building material stores sell 3 foot wide wooden framed screened sections. They aren't very expensive and the construction is pretty solid for the price. I butted two of them together and added a little framing around the opening. It covers the six foot opening, looks good, and I could take it down if I wanted to. We have dogs so I added some knotty pine to the lower part of the screen on the inside so the dogs don't rip through it - it also made it look even nicer from the inside.  I think you said your sections aren't uniform so I don't know if that would work for you. Its just a though. Good luck.

Our screened area is below a wooden deck with 2x6 decking boards.  we installed "under decking" to keep the rain and weather from running through the decking into the screened area.  Our problem with the wind was not screens getting torn, but the "under decking" panels blowing out of position.  To solve this, and to help keep more weather and such blowing into the screened area we installed roll down/up canvas exterior curtains on the outside of the screens.  aside from adding one more chore to do at arrival and departure they have been great.

I have rolled window coverings inside the porch but the idea of using a weatherproof style on the outside is a great idea. Love this website. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for all the great ideas, everyone.  Hopefully we will solve the screen issue.

Where did you get the roll down/up canvas exterior curtains for the outside of the screens?  We ae considering putting something like that on our screened in porch.

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we used a contractor that makes custom boat covers,  he measured up the area and made the curtains.  then I installed.  I can't remember the material name but it has held up very well.  the curtains have holes(gromets) in the sides that allow a twist top do hickey (that is screwed into the wood screen frames) to go through to lock the curtain down tight to the porch, and a sleeve at the bottom that holds a galvanized 3/4 inch pipe to weight the bottom down, and then a rope and pulley set up to roll the curtains up and down around the galvanized pipe.  Maybe I should try to get pictures.

The curtains sound like a really good idea.