New screen. Stainless steel in every connection. A fresh finish on the frame. In a city that has kept its 1926 architecture alive for a century, an aging enclosure earns the same treatment: restore it, don't raze it. Request your FREE, no obligation written estimate today.
Request a Free Makeover Estimate Call (941) 555-0101Venice was platted in 1926 to John Nolen's plan, its developers required Mediterranean Revival architecture, and the town has spent a century keeping those blocks standing rather than tearing them down. Most of the pool cages and lanais around them are the same story: sound aluminum under a chalky finish, tired mesh, and a few hundred screws that Gulf salt has been working on since the day they went in.
A lanai renovation is one project with three trades inside it. The screen, the steel, and the finish. Done together, they give you the cage you have, looking like the cage you bought, for a fraction of what a new enclosure costs.
The makeover: chalked, oxidized aluminum cleaned, prepped, and refinished, with stainless hardware and fresh screen done in the same project. The cage you have, looking like the cage you bought.
Full or partial mesh replacement on aluminum pool enclosures. Walls, roof panels, or the whole cage, with new spline throughout and mesh matched to how the cage faces.
Fresh mesh and spline for under-truss lanais, screened porches, and patio rooms, with door panels and kick plates renewed at the same visit.
Every screw connection in the cage renewed with marine-grade stainless steel. The least visible part of a renovation and the one that matters most when the wind comes back.
Single panels and small sets: torn mesh, blown spline, sagging sections. Mesh matched to the existing weave and color so the repair disappears.
Doors that drag, slam, or will not latch. New mesh, hinges, closers, latches, and kick plates, or a new door hung square when the old one is past adjusting.
| Part | What is wrong | What the makeover does |
|---|---|---|
| 01 The screen | Mesh chalked white, brittle, torn at the door and bottom panels | Fresh mesh and tight spline throughout. 18/14 for airflow, 20/20 where the lanai faces the bays and creeks, pet-grade on lower panels where claws live |
| 02 The steel | Rust streaks under every screw head, connections loosened by years of wind cycling | Every fastener in the cage renewed once with marine-grade 316 stainless, the least visible part of the job and the one that matters most when the wind comes back |
| 03 The finish | Oxidized white or bronze aluminum that comes off chalky on your hand | Cleaned, treated, prepped, and refinished in the color you choose. The aluminum underneath is usually sound; afterward it looks sound too |
Milton came ashore in Sarasota County in October 2024, the county's first hurricane landfall since 1944, with the worst of it at the Venice end. Two years earlier, Ian took the roof off the Venice Theatre from fifty miles away. Wind here is a schedule, and a cage that rode out both is due a look at its fasteners and bracing cables before the next season.
Gulf salt air works on fasteners before anything else. Rust at the screw heads is the cage's first request for attention, a fastener problem years before it becomes a frame problem. Bayfront and creek-side lanais in Nokomis and Osprey have a second issue: no-see-ums breed in the mangrove edges and pass straight through standard 18/14 mesh. A 20/20 weave on the walls that face the water is the fix.
A straight rescreen, new mesh in an untouched frame, does not normally need a permit. Structural frame repair does. Homes inside city limits deal with the City of Venice building department; Nokomis, Osprey, Laurel, South Venice, and Casey Key deal with Sarasota County. You will know which kind of job yours is before anything is scheduled. The Venice MainStreet district that draws visitors downtown is the same architecture the makeover approach borrows from: keep what is sound, renew what is not.
Call (941) 555-0101 or request your FREE, no obligation written estimate. The contractor comes to the house at your convenience.