Motorized garage door screen

[Tim99989]

Has anybody ran into one of these? I have a situation where a motorized garage door screen was installed. It’s mounted into the casing of a single car garage door. The installers drilled through the wood casing to route the flexible cord into the garage. Essentially running it through the wall. It then is ran up the wall secured to the surface of the drywall. Then pokes through the finished drywall ceiling into the attic, and terminated into 120v general recept junction box.
Question is: How to correct installation to satisfy nec requirements?

Not sure how to get the cord to not pass through the wood casing, and to not be passing through the door opening. Preferably a receptacle would be installed near door opening to plug the screen motor into.
Any help would be appreciated!

 

[PaulMmn]

I'm having trouble picturing the screen. When looking at the garage door from the outside, is the screen in front of the existing door? Is the screen fastened to the existing door, moving up and down when the door does?
How does the screen move? Panel(s) sliding away from the center to one side?

 

[Tim99989]

I'm having trouble picturing the screen. When looking at the garage door from the outside, is the screen in front of the existing door? Is the screen fastened to the existing door, moving up and down when the door does?
How does the screen move? Panel(s) sliding away from the center to one side?

It’s mounted in front of the existing garage door. It works independently of the original garage door. It very similar to a somfy window shade. I have done installs for those. Typically we install recept in soffit near motor end when it’s in an interior.
The link has some pictures of a similar type of motorized door screen
https://dgdoors.com/products/garage-lanai-screens/

 

[James L]

Sounds like a motorized screen for a covered porch. The last one I saw has only a 2-foot cord on it, and the receptacle is outside in a soffit

 

[Tim99989]

It is rated for outdoor use. I was going to attempt calling the manufacture and see if they had any suggestions on how to install while being nec compliant. I don’t think the installer has any experience with Nec, 400.12 uses not permitted for flexible cords. They pretty much did everything that article says not to do. Run through walls, structural ceilings, concealed by walls ceiling.
I was hoping there would be a junction box in in the screen housing to hard wire with romex. I haven’t taken apart the screen assembly. It looks good if you don’t care about the cord in the garage