Southbay Yacht & Racquet Club is built around water. The community-owned deep-water marina on Little Sarasota Bay is the reason many residents live here, and the bay is also what shapes their cages. Bay air is damp and salted, the mangrove shoreline is where no-see-ums breed, and a lanai facing the water gets both from about sunset on.
Two upgrades do most of the work on a Southbay cage. Lanai and porch rescreening in 20/20 mesh keeps out the midges that pass straight through 18/14, and stainless fastener replacement in 316 grade stops the rust streaking that zinc-coated screws show early in bay air. Owners who spend more of the season on the boat than the lanai often add a pre-season cage inspection so the whole enclosure gets walked once before the weather turns. Venice Lanai Screens connects Southbay homeowners with a local screen contractor. The association commonly sets approved mesh and color; check yours.
Call (941) 555-0101 to arrange a FREE, no obligation written estimate at your Southbay home.
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.
A before-June walk-around: cable tension and anchors, fastener condition, spline and mesh, door hardware, with a written punch list you can schedule from.