Florida Rooms Are Their Own Animal
The Florida room — part of the house's living space, walled in glass or screen under its own roof — is a St. Petersburg staple. Its screens work harder than pool cage screens: window-wall panels at sitting height, sliders that get used daily, roof panels baking in the sun. We repair and rescreen Florida rooms: window-wall screens, roof panels, and sliding sections.
What We Fix
- Window-wall screens. Torn or brittle panels in the Florida room's screen walls — matched to existing mesh.
- Roof panels. Sun-aged roof screens, the first to go.
- Sliders. Sliding screen sections that stick, jump track, or have torn mesh — track serviced, rollers replaced, screens re-rolled.
- Full Florida room rescreens. When the whole room has aged out.
Glass-to-Screen Transitions
Many Florida rooms mix glass windows and screen sections. We work on the screen side — and when a screen section keeps failing because of how it meets the glass framing, we will tell you whether the fix is screen work or something a glass contractor should see.
Our Process: Florida Room to Done
- Full-room inspection. Window-wall screens, roof panels, sliders, and the transitions where screen meets glass — press-tested and photographed.
- Written quote. Repair vs. rescreen, slider work itemized separately, mesh spec. If the glass side needs attention, we flag it and tell you it is a glass contractor's job.
- Screen work. Panels cut out and re-rolled with matched mesh; sliders get tracks cleaned, rollers serviced or replaced, and screens replaced.
- Slider tuning. Every sliding section gets tested — they should glide with one finger, latch cleanly, and seal when closed.
- Walkthrough. We go panel by panel with you, test every slider, and haul the old material away.
What Florida Room Screen Work Costs
Florida rooms are smaller than pool cages, so costs run lower. Individual panel repairs fall in the standard $150 to $400 range. Slider service — track, rollers, and rescreen per panel — is quoted per sliding section. Full Florida room rescreens typically land in the low thousands, well under a pool-cage rescreen. Starting ranges only; your written estimate is free and the final quote is fixed before we start.
Screen vs. Glass: Knowing the Line
Many Florida rooms are hybrids — glass windows on some walls, screens on others, sometimes convertible panels that swap seasonally. We are the screen side of that equation. When a problem is really a glass problem (fogged insulated glass, broken window seals, rotted window frames), we will tell you and point you to a glass contractor rather than pretend screens fix it. And when a screen section keeps failing because of how it was built against the glass framing, we will explain the real cause instead of just re-screening the symptom every two years.
Sliders: The Moving Parts
Florida room sliders fail in predictable ways: tracks fill with grit and pet hair, rollers wear flat, and screens tear from the constant handling. The fix is rarely just the screen — a fresh screen on a grinding slider tears again within a year. Our slider service addresses the whole assembly: track cleaned and realigned, rollers replaced with quality parts, screen re-rolled, and the panel tuned to glide. A slider that moves with one finger is the test; we do not leave until it passes.
Screening a Florida Room for Bugs
Florida rooms are where St. Pete families actually live in the evenings — which makes them ground zero for the no-see-um problem. If the room is unusable at dusk, 20/20 mesh on the window walls changes the experience the same way it does on a lanai. We spec Florida room mesh for how the room gets used, not just what was there before.
Enclosing an Open Patio as a Florida Room
Some homeowners want to turn an open covered patio into a screened Florida room. If the roof and posts exist and are sound, adding screen walls is usually straightforward — essentially a custom screen wall project. If there is no roof structure, that is new-construction territory closer to our patio enclosure service. We look at what is there and tell you which project you are actually describing.