What St. Petersburg homeowners wrote afterwards.
Rescreens, rails and new cages, in their own words.
Reviews
Six homeowners, six different jobs
5.0 ★★★★★ average across 6 reviews
They measured the whole cage before anyone talked price. The quote listed every panel by number, and it wrote $0.00 next to the roof panels they said were fine. No other contractor has ever put that in writing for us.
Four days from the tape measure to sitting out there again, just as the page said. The record they left lists the spline, the mesh and the anchors they used.
I asked about a permit for the new rail and got a straight answer on the quote: who pulls it, and what it adds.
A branch took out two panels in the night. Someone was on the phone by eight, came the next morning, and the quote only covered what was actually torn.
We chose the heavier pet mesh because the dog goes through the door ten times a day. They explained what it does to the airflow before we said yes. It has held up all summer.
The door closer was the thing that had bothered us for years. Fixed, and they opened and closed it in front of me three times before they left.
Five things to ask any screen contractor
These work on a first visit, with us or with anyone else:
- Ask what mesh they are quoting. If the answer is “screen” rather than 18×14, 20×20 or pet mesh, the quote has not been thought about.
- Ask what spline gauge, and whether it is being reused. Spline is the cheapest material on the job and the one that fails.
- Ask what happens to the base anchors. On any cage over about a decade old, the honest answer involves replacing at least some of them, not re-tightening them.
- Ask whether the work needs a permit, and listen for a real answer. “It’s only a screen room” is not one.
- Ask for the drawing. A new enclosure has an engineered set with a design wind speed on it.
A contractor who answers those five without getting defensive is telling you more than a page of quotes ever could.
Next step
Ask us the five questions.
Ring the desk and ask them cold. Getting a straight answer on the phone tells you more than a testimonial page.