One Screen. Every Season. Every Storm.: Introducing MaxForce 365

For most of the year, a hurricane screen is the thing you forget you own.

You think about it in late August, when the forecasters start drawing cones across the Gulf and the local news leads with the spaghetti models. You deploy it once, maybe twice. You watch it hold. Then the season closes, the cone graphics disappear from the broadcast, and the screen goes back to being part of the architecture — present, unremarkable, waiting for the next bad week of the next bad year. For nearly two decades, that has been the deal a hurricane screen offered the homeowner: serious protection, summoned for the worst day on the calendar, and dormant for the other three hundred and sixty-four.

That deal is over. On June 1, 2026, MaxForce introduces MaxForce 365— the same screen that has guarded homes through some of the strongest storms on record, re-engineered so that all three hundred and sixty-five days finally count for something.

The name says what the product now does. One screen. Every season. Every storm. This is the first post in a twelve-part series that will walk through everything the new system changes — the engineering, the daily experience, the certifications, the climates it was built for. It begins, as it should, with the announcement itself.

Quick Answer

What is MaxForce 365?

MaxForce 365 is the next generation of the MaxForce motorized hurricane screen, launching June 1, 2026. It keeps the 185 MPH, Miami-Dade-certified protection MaxForce is known for and adds a newly engineered, self-adjusting spring-retention track that runs quietly and smoothly enough for daily, year-round use — insect protection, sun and glare control, privacy, and storm defense from a single system. The hurricane strength did not change. What changed is that the screen is now built to be lived with every day, not just deployed on the worst one. Orders open June 19, 2026.

The Screen You Only Thought About Twice a Year

There is a particular relationship a homeowner develops with a hurricane screen, and for years it has been a strange one. You spent real money on it. You researched wind ratings and product approvals and watched installation videos. You take it seriously — the way you take seriously a smoke detector, a sump pump, a generator. And then, like those things, you mostly ignore it. It earns its keep on the day the storm comes, and on every other day it is simply there, a quiet line of aluminum tucked above the opening, doing nothing because nothing is required of it.

That is not a complaint about the product. It is a description of what the product was for. The original MaxForce was engineered around a single, uncompromising job: stand between your home and a Category-5 wind load and do not yield. It did that job better than almost anything on the market, and it still does. But a screen built entirely for the storm is, by definition, a screen that spends most of its life waiting. The strength was the whole point, and the strength came with a trade-off — a system tuned for the worst day was never quite tuned for the ordinary ones.

Meanwhile, the ordinary days kept arriving. The mosquitoes at dusk. The four o'clock sun that turns a west-facing lanai into a furnace. The neighbors close enough to wave to and close enough to watch you eat dinner. The fine grit that blows across the patio after a dry week. None of those are hurricanes. All of them are reasons a homeowner closes the door and goes back inside. A screen that could solve them — quietly, automatically, every day — would be worth something fifty-one weeks of the year that a storm screen is worth nothing.

What Changed Inside the Track

The change that makes MaxForce 365 possible is not visible from the patio. The silhouette is the same. The brand mark is the same. The fabric platform, the certifications, the proof points — the same. What changed is what happens inside the side track.

For nearly two decades, Fenetex — the manufacturer behind MaxForce — refined two things in parallel: hurricane-grade strength, and the quiet, self-correcting engineering that makes a motorized screen pleasant to use every day. MaxForce 365 is the first system to carry both at once. A newly engineered, self-adjusting spring-retention track replaces the older fixed-track architecture. Think of it as the difference between a rigid axle and a shock absorber. The fixed track held magnificently under storm load, but it held the same way in February as it did in a hurricane — it could not adapt to the small, daily expansions and contractions of heat and humidity that make a screen bind, stick, or chatter. The spring-retention track adapts continuously, keeping the fabric under even tension as the temperature climbs and falls across a day and across a year.

What that buys the homeowner is mundane in the best possible way. The screen deploys smoothly. It runs quietly — the even spring tension means peaceful operation without the noise that plagues lesser systems. It is far less likely to need a service call. The fabric edge stays sealed and locked in its track, with no zippers to split and no loose edges to catch the wind. The engineering that used to live only in the worst-day toolkit now lives in the every-day one. The screen finally behaves like something you would want to touch on a Tuesday.

What "365" Actually Means

The number is not decoration. It stands for the three things MaxForce 365 now delivers from one system, on a single track, behind a single brand.

Daily comfort. The everyday functions that used to be a footnote are now the headline. The fabric blocks up to 95% of the sun's UV rays while shielding the space against wind, rain, insects, dust, and debris — and it does so on a quiet, self-adjusting system you operate from your phone. Two-way privacy lets you see out without letting anyone see in. The screen that protects you in a storm is the same screen that gives you a usable patio in July.

Year-round readiness. Because the screen is already installed and already part of your daily routine, there is no scramble when the forecast turns. Nothing to dig out of the garage. Nothing to bolt on at the last minute. The protection is permanent and the readiness is passive — you are covered on the day you need it precisely because you have been using it all along.

Storm-grade protection. None of the daily-use refinement came at the cost of the defense. MaxForce 365 carries the same 185 MPH wind rating and the same Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance — the toughest residential hurricane standard in the country. The strength was never up for negotiation. It is the floor the rest of the product is built on.

The table below separates what stayed exactly the same from what is new.

The strength was never the question. What changed is that the strength no longer has to wait for a storm to be worth something.

What Did Not Change

It would be easy to read a launch like this as a reinvention, and it is worth being precise: it is not. Nearly everything that earned MaxForce its reputation is exactly where you left it. The hurricane rating is the same. The certifications are the same. The hybrid ballistic fabric, the powder-coated aluminum, the smart-home control through Somfy motors and the Bond Bridge Pro app — all the same. The lifetime warranty is the same. The commercial track record — installations protecting properties at Disney World, the Ritz-Carlton, the Four Seasons, and NASA — is the same proof it always was.

MaxForce 365 did not trade its defense for comfort. It added comfort on top of a defense that was already best-in-class. That distinction matters, because the homeowner who buys this screen is not choosing between protection and livability anymore. For the first time, the same purchase delivers both — and the one that used to cost a separate product, or a separate compromise, now arrives in a single system.

What the Series Looks at Next

This announcement is the doorway; the next eleven posts walk through the house. The next piece, publishing June 8, goes deeper into what "365" actually means — the three pillars of daily comfort, year-round readiness, and storm-grade protection, and why a screen designed around all three behaves differently than one designed around any single one. From there the series moves into the engineering behind the self-adjusting track, the quiet of daily operation, the difference the track type makes against the weather, the certifications decoded in plain English, and the climates — coastal and far inland — that MaxForce 365 was built to handle. MaxForce 365 launches June 1, 2026. Orders open June 19. If you want to understand the most capable screen MaxForce has ever made before you make a decision, start with the next post — and let this series be your guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is MaxForce 365?

MaxForce 365 is the next generation of the MaxForce motorized hurricane screen, launching June 1, 2026. It keeps the 185 MPH, Miami-Dade-certified hurricane protection MaxForce is known for and adds a newly engineered, self-adjusting spring-retention track that runs quietly and smoothly enough for daily, year-round use. The result is one screen that handles insects, sun and glare, privacy, dust, and storm defense — rather than a storm-only product that sits idle most of the year. The name reflects the shift: it is built for all 365 days, not just the worst one.

Is MaxForce 365 still rated for hurricanes?

Yes — the hurricane protection is unchanged. MaxForce 365 retains the same 185 MPH wind rating and the same Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) as the system it replaces, meeting the High Velocity Hurricane Zone standard, the most demanding residential hurricane code in the United States. The daily-use engineering was added on top of that defense, not in place of it. The chassis, the certifications, and the storm-grade strength all carry forward.

Can I use MaxForce 365 every day, or only during storms?

Every day — that is the entire point of the redesign. The new self-adjusting spring-retention track keeps the screen under even tension as temperature and humidity change, so it deploys smoothly, operates quietly, and needs far fewer service calls than a storm-tuned system. Day to day it blocks up to 95% of UV rays, keeps out insects, manages dust and rain, and provides two-way privacy. The same screen then stands as full hurricane protection when a storm arrives.

What is actually new about MaxForce 365?

The core change is inside the side track. A newly engineered, self-adjusting spring-retention track replaces the previous fixed-track design. The fixed track was extremely strong but static; the spring-retention track continuously adapts to thermal expansion and humidity, keeping fabric tension even across a day and a year. That single change is what unlocks quiet operation, smoother deployment, a lower service-call profile, and the everyday usability that a storm-only screen never had — all without giving up any of the hurricane-grade strength.

Does MaxForce 365 still include the lifetime warranty?

Yes. MaxForce 365 carries the same lifetime warranty as the prior generation. The coverage is part of what distinguishes the product in a category where many competing systems cap their warranties at a fixed number of years. A lifetime commitment reflects an expectation that the system is built to last and to be stood behind for as long as you own it.

When can I order MaxForce 365?

MaxForce 365 launches June 1, 2026, and orders open June 19, 2026. Because every MaxForce screen is custom-built to fit your exact openings, the process starts with a consultation rather than a cart. A site visit establishes your openings, your priorities, and the right configuration before anything is built. Hurricane-zone installations also require a permitted, credentialed installer, which the consultation accounts for from the start.