Screen room repair and screened-in porch repair, done as one trade
A porch has no mesh roof, sits in the shade of the house, and takes its abuse low, at dog and mower height. That changes the repair, and it changes the price — usually in your favor.
A porch is not a pool cage, and the repair is cheaper for it
Crane Creek Rescreen books screen room repair and screened-in porch repair across Palm Bay and Brevard County as the same trade it hangs on pool cages, with one structural difference that runs through everything: a porch has walls and a door, and no screen overhead. The roof is the house’s, or the solid pan roof of a screen room. That removes the ladder-and-harness roof work that makes a cage the bigger job, so a porch repair visit sits in the same $200–900 range every repair does, and a porch rescreen is priced at the same $1.50–3.50 per square foot over far less screen than a cage carries. Where your porch lands is a measurement, and the measurement is free.
The porch failures we roll a truck for
- A whole wall gone slack. Spline shrinks back out of its channel over the years and the panels start to rattle and balloon. We pull the panels, brush the channels and re-hang with new spline, never the old cord pushed back into the groove.
- Chalky, brittle mesh that tears at a touch. Screen that has powdered at the corners is at the end of its life on every wall, not just the one that let go.
- The door. Dragging sweep, latch that will not catch, closer that slams. Usually hardware, occasionally mesh, always a small fix.
- Kick panels the dog has been through. Swapped for pet screen so it stops happening.
- Low panels along the sprinkler line. Splash, mulch and grass clippings on the bottom band; florida glass stops it.
- The frond that went through one panel. A single-panel job, the kind Malabar’s acreage porches send us every windy week.
Repair the walls, or rescreen the room
The test is the same one we use on a cage, and it takes five seconds: press a thumbnail into a sound panel close to a corner. Live mesh flexes and comes back; dead mesh cracks or crumbles. If the porch passes, the torn panel is a repair and that is all it is. If it fails on two or three walls, panel-chasing means paying the trip charge again every season for a porch-wide problem, and a walls-only rescreen resets every panel at once. It is a smaller version of the choice on a cage — the square-foot rate behind a Palm Bay pool cage rescreen is the same rate, applied to a porch’s much shorter list of panels — and we quote it both ways so you decide with numbers.
The low band is where a porch earns its mesh choice
A pool cage takes its damage from the sun, up on the roof. A porch takes it at the bottom, from whatever lives on the deck. So the mesh decision on a porch is mostly a decision about the lowest panels:
- Pet screen on the kick panels and door bottom if there is a dog. A heavier, vinyl-coated weave built to take claws, run low with standard mesh above so the view stays open.
- Florida glass on the two or three panels that face a neighbor’s window or catch the sprinklers — a vinyl-backed mesh you cannot see through and water cannot cross. Never whole walls of it; a porch has to breathe.
- 20/20 no-see-um weave everywhere on a porch near Turkey Creek, the lagoon, or Malabar’s river end, where standard 18/14 lets the midges in at dusk.
The mesh guide has the full trade-offs; the Palm Bay rescreening cost guide shows what each choice does to the square-foot number.
Porch and screen room words, defined
Screened-in porch — screen walls under the house’s own roof. Screen room — a freestanding or attached aluminum room with a solid pan roof and screen walls. Lanai — the Florida word for the covered patio, screened or not; when it is screened, it is the same job as a porch. Kick panel — the bottom row of wall panels. Chair rail — the horizontal bar that splits a wall into upper and lower panels, which is what lets pet screen run low and standard mesh run high. Spline and channel — the rubber cord and the groove it locks the mesh into; every panel we hang gets new spline.
Porch and screen room questions
How much does screened-in porch repair cost in Palm Bay?
A repair visit runs $200–900: one torn wall panel sits at the bottom of that range, a door plus several panels toward the top. A porch with brittle mesh on every wall is quoted as a rescreen instead, by the square foot of screen at $1.50–3.50, and a porch carries far less screen than a pool cage.
Can you repair a screen room with a solid roof?
Yes: the screen walls, the door and its hardware. The pan roof, the gutters and the aluminum frame of the room are not our trade. If the frame is what has failed we will say so and point you to an aluminum contractor, the same as we do on a pool cage.
Is pet screen worth it on a porch?
On the bottom band, yes, if the porch has a dog. It costs more per square foot than standard mesh and reads a shade darker, which is why we run it low and hang standard mesh above the chair rail. It ends the yearly re-repair of the same panel.
Count the walls, name the dog
That is enough for a number when we call you back, and a firm one after a walk-around.
Or send the quote form