Warm late-afternoon light over a workshop table with hurricane screen components and tools laid out, evoking the people who build and install each system rather than the product itself.

Thank You — From the Crew Behind Every Screen

September 07, 2026•1 min read

Thank You — From the Crew Behind Every Screen

Labor Day started as a day for the people who build things, not a day for the things themselves. That's worth remembering today, because this series has spent three posts talking about sun, mosquitoes, storm timing, and the difference between a home lanai and a restaurant patio. None of that happens without people. So today isn't about any of it. It's just a thank-you.

To the team in Jacksonville who measures, cuts, and builds each screen to order rather than pulling one off a shelf — every opening this series has talked about started as your work, long before anyone's holiday weekend.

To the certified dealers who show up to measure a lanai in July heat and install in whatever weather actually shows up that week — the work this series describes in the abstract is the work you do by hand, house by house, patio by patio, all year.

And to everyone who's trusted a made-to-order system, waited on a production timeline instead of same-day shelf stock, and let a dealer into their home or their restaurant to get it right — thank you. That patience is what actually makes a custom-built product possible in the first place.

Whatever today looks like — a quiet one, a full house, a patio finally being used the way it was meant to be — we hope it's a good one. Happy Labor Day.

— The MaxForce™ team

Kip HudaKoz

Kip HudaKoz has spent more than 25 years inside the outdoor service industry — first in the field, then behind the microphone as co-host of the Florida Home & Garden Show, and now as a writer covering hurricane protection and outdoor living. He brings a working understanding of what these systems actually do, what they cost, and what separates a code-compliant installation from a regrettable one. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran and graduate of Rollins College with a degree in Language Arts, Kip writes for homeowners — bridging the gap between product engineering and practical application, and separating fact from marketing in an industry where the two are easily confused. Kip's work appears at Florida Living Outdoor, MaxForce News, and other publications across the outdoor living and motorized screen industry. When he's not writing, he's reading, working in his own outdoor space, and paying attention to what's actually moving in the industry rather than what marketing says is moving.

Back to Blog