Motorized roll-downs on a canal home: premium price, premium peace of mind

Lived in this Las Olas Isles house for 12 years before installing roll-downs. The deciding factor wasn't aesthetics or even storm performance — it was that I'm 67 and I cannot safely deploy storm panels on the second floor. Roll-downs solved that with a single button on the wall and a backup app on my phone. Four years in, the anodized aluminum still looks new despite constant brackish exposure (we're 200 feet from the New River). One motor failed in year three; the installer replaced it under warranty without argument. Would I recommend this product to everyone? No — the price puts it out of reach for a lot of homeowners. But for a two-story canal house with an aging owner, it was the only correct answer.