Exterior Patio Shades In Overland Park
Exterior Patio Shades and Screens in Overland Park, KS
Our Solar Shield Blinds Exterior Patio Shades are motorized patio screens and outdoor solar shades that close off the open sides of a porch or covered deck. For the screened porches and covered decks behind Overland Park homes near 135th Street, that means shade, privacy and a 75 mph wind rating at the push of a button.
Where It Fits In Overland Park
Where Exterior Patio Shades fit in Overland Park
Screened porches, covered decks that look west, and the great room glass on the new builds toward 179th are the three places where Overland Park homes feel the afternoon sun the most.
- Screened porches on the colonialsThe porch on a Blue Valley two story has screen on three sides and no answer for a cold spring wind. Shades in tracks on each side make it a room in April and October.
- Covered decks that face the sunsetThe kitchen deck on a two story toward 159th looks west, and the roof over it does nothing about the low sun. One shade on that side drops at four and dinner moves outside.
- West glass on the new buildsA wall of west glass on a great room toward 179th heats the whole house by three. Stopping the sun outside the glass keeps that heat out of the room, something no interior shade does.
- Restaurant patios off Metcalf and 135thA restaurant patio seats more tables when the sun and wind are under control, and sun and wind sensors lower and raise the shades on their own so the staff can focus on the guests.
Worth Knowing
Porches, side tracks, and what the structure needs
Overland Park south of I-435 was built in waves, and each wave left a different outdoor room. The 1990s colonials around 135th got screened porches, which keep the bugs out but not the sun, the wind or the rain. The two stories that followed toward 159th got covered decks off the kitchen, most of them facing the sunset because that's the way the lot ran. The newest houses out by 179th got great rooms with a wall of west glass and a patio under it. All three rooms get too hot to enjoy from midafternoon until the sun goes down, and a shade outside the opening solves it in each one.
Two things are worth knowing first. The shade needs a real header to hang from and posts or columns for the tracks. A screened porch and a roofed deck have both, an open pergola with thin rafters doesn't, and if the structure isn't there we say so on the first visit. The wait is longer than for interior work: eight to ten weeks, since everything is built to your opening. The visit is free. Your Design Specialist measures every opening and writes an itemized quote that holds 180 days. Our own full time Install Techs install the tracks and the motor and run the controls with you before they leave.
The fabric rides inside wind rated side tracks, which hold it flat, keep bugs and rain from slipping around the edges, and give the shade its 75 mph wind rating. A push button runs it, and the sun and wind sensors run it when you don't: the shade comes down when the sun reaches the deck and rolls itself up when a gust comes across Johnson County. Each side is its own shade. The fabric's weave is the last decision, a tighter one for privacy from the neighbor's upstairs windows, a looser one to keep the trees in view. Closed, it shuts out wind, snow and ice too.
What Comes As Standard
- 75 mphWind rating, with wind rated side tracks
- Wind ratedSelf-adjusting side tracks
- Sun sensorsAnd wind sensors that retract for you
- 8 to 10 wksOrder to install on exterior work
- Carefree GuaranteeA lifetime product warranty that transfers if you sell, plus our five year service guarantee
- Free Temporary ShadesOn every window you order for, installed while your custom order is made
Our Process
Planned, measured, and installed by our team in Overland Park
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Overland Park home or office. We'll listen to what you're wanting to accomplish with your windows, take a good look at every opening, and explain the options that will actually work for them.
- On the spot quoteWe take the time to make sure you know exactly what you're getting, and you'll have a complete and exact quote before we leave, so there are no surprises on install day.
- Installed by our teamEverything we install is custom built to the exact measurements of your windows, and when ready, professionally installed by our full time installers. Most projects are installed in less than a day.
Screen Colors
Exterior screen colors we bring to Overland Park
Your Design Specialist holds each one up against your siding, stone and trim so you see it in your own light before you decide.
Flat Black
The clearest view out of anything here. A dark screen absorbs light rather than scattering it, so the yard stays sharp.
Charcoal
A middle tone that reads as shadow from outside, with a clear view from inside.
Granite
A gray with visible texture in the weave. Holds up against stone and painted siding without going flat.
Tobacco
Warm mid brown. The usual pick where the house has cedar or a stained deck.
Espresso Texture
A woven texture rather than a flat color, which breaks up a very large span so it does not read as one sheet.
Shadow Texture
Blue gray with a textured weave. The one that suits a modern exterior with gray or black window frames.
Stone Texture
A pale textured neutral. Brighter underneath than the darks, and it hides dust between cleans.
Bone
Soft off white. Light stays bright under the shade, at the cost of some outward visibility.
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Straight Answers
Exterior Patio Shades questions from Overland Park homeowners
It depends on the porch. The tracks fasten to the posts, and your Design Specialist looks at the posts and the screen on a porch behind a colonial near 135th, then shows you exactly where the housing and tracks land before you order. The screen keeps handling the bugs, and the shade takes on the sun, the sideways rain and the wind the screen never stopped.
Yes. Each side of the deck is a separate shade on its own track, and each one moves on its own from the push button. On a kitchen deck toward 159th that means the west shade comes down at four while the two sides facing the yard stay open, and after dinner all three go up.
Both. The reason is simple: the sun gets stopped before it reaches the glass, so the heat never makes it into the room. An interior shade catches the light after it has already come through the window. On a great room with a west wall of glass toward 179th, an exterior shade over the windows keeps the room far more comfortable in the afternoon.
It comes down to the roof. A shade needs a covered structure to hang from and closes the open sides of it, and an awning is for a deck with nothing over it and makes the shade itself. On the covered kitchen decks toward 159th it's the shade, on the bare decks off the 1970s splits north of I-435 it's the awning, and your Design Specialist tells you which on the free visit.
Yes, and there are plenty of them on the walk out lots south of 135th, where the kitchen deck sits a full story over the yard. Our own full time Install Techs are used to the height, mount the tracks to the posts, install the shade and set the sensors, and they clean up and take the packaging with them. Before they leave you run the shade up and down yourself.
Exterior Patio Shades run 8 to 10 weeks from order to install, compared with 4 to 6 weeks for interior window treatments, because every frame is built to the opening we measure. If you want the porch or deck ready by summer, book the measure in the spring. Your quote is exact, itemized, and held for 180 days.
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Exterior Patio Shades around Overland Park
We serve all of Overland Park, KS, including Downtown Overland Park, Nottingham by the Green, Deer Creek, Stanley and Blue Valley. ZIP codes 66204, 66207, 66210, 66212, 66213, 66214, 66221, 66223, 66224.
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