Screen repair and rescreening services in Altamonte Springs

Full pool cage rescreen

Every panel out, new mesh and new spline throughout, and the fasteners checked as the cage is stripped. The default job on a 1970s Altamonte frame.

Every panel stripped, new mesh and new spline throughout, and the fasteners inspected while the frame is bare — which is the only time they are actually visible. On a frame from the 1970s build wave that inspection is the part that matters: five decades of Florida rain takes self-tapping screws to the point where they shear instead of backing out, and a worn spline groove needs a spline size chosen for the groove it has now, not the groove it left the factory with.

Typical on a detached pool cage in Spring Valley, Spring Lake Hills, Country Creek, Spring Oaks or Weathersfield.

Single panel and spot repair

One torn panel after a storm, or the four low panels the dog went through. Ground-level and upper mansard panels both.

One or several panels rather than the whole cage. Common after a September storm, after a limb comes down — a regular event under the oak canopy in Glen Arden Heights and the older 32701 streets — or in the lower bays where a dog has been through.

Upper panels on a two-storey mansard cage, which is the standard large cage type in Spring Lake Hills, are a different job from ground level and price differently.

Screen door repair and rebuild

Sagging frames, dead rollers, worn closers, kickplates and pet doors. The single most common condo and townhome call in this city.

Sagging or racked door frames, worn rollers, closers that no longer pull the door shut, kickplates and pet doors. This is the most common single call from the condo and townhome stock — Sandy Cove, Oak Harbour, Escondido, Bona Vista, Jamestown Village, Altamonte Heights — where a screened lanai has one door taking every entry and exit all day.

In those communities the approval usually sits with an association or a property manager rather than the resident, so it helps to know which before scheduling.

Pet-resistant mesh

Heavier vinyl-coated polyester in the lower panels and around doors, standard mesh above, so you are not paying for the strong stuff at roof height.

Heavier vinyl-coated polyester mesh in the panels that take abuse — the lower bays and either side of the door — with standard mesh above. Mixing the two is deliberate: pet-resistant mesh costs several times what standard fiberglass costs per square foot, and nothing is clawing the panels at roof height.

Published Florida market figures put pet-resistant mesh at roughly $1.50–$2.50 per square foot installed against $0.75–$1.25 for standard fiberglass. Those are other companies’ numbers.

20x20 no-see-um mesh

Twenty openings per linear inch instead of the standard 18x14. The correct spec anywhere near Lake Lotus and the Little Wekiva floodplain.

Twenty openings per linear inch in both directions instead of the standard 18 by 14. It exists because biting midges are small enough to pass through ordinary screening, a point UF/IFAS makes explicitly, and it is the right specification on the west side of Altamonte Springs where the city’s own 150-acre Lake Lotus wetland and the Little Wekiva floodplain keep midge pressure permanent rather than seasonal.

The trade-off is real: finer mesh moves less air and reads darker from inside. Worth it near the floodplain, often not worth it away from it. The mesh guide sets out where the line falls.