Laurel Park is the historic bungalow district just south of downtown, a few shaded blocks between the bayfront and Osprey Avenue with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens a short walk west. Screened porches are part of the architecture here, and a rescreen on a bungalow porch is a matter of matching what is there: fine mesh, tight spline, and hardware that suits the house.
Sarasota Lanai Screens connects homeowners in Laurel Park with a local screen contractor who keeps a porch looking like it belongs. Lanai and porch rescreening is the usual job; window and entryway screens come up often on houses this age; and no-see-um mesh is worth asking about on a porch this close to the bay.
Laurel Park is inside the City of Sarasota, so permits go through the city. A mesh-only rescreen usually needs none; structural work does. Streets this shaded pay for it every spring with oak pollen film from February to May, best rinsed off gently.
Call (941) 883-9241 for a FREE, no obligation written estimate on a Laurel Park porch.
Patch a few panels or redo the whole cage? When the mesh has gone brittle and chalky all over, a full rescreen resets the clock. Walls, roof, or the whole enclosure, new spline throughout.
One torn panel, a blown spline, a sagging roof section. Single panels and small sets, mesh matched to the existing weave so the repair disappears.
The screened porches and under-truss lanais of South Gate, Gulf Gate, and Arlington Park, rescreened with doors and kick plates renewed at the same visit.
20/20 tight-weave screen for bayfront and creek-side lanais where standard 18/14 lets biting midges through. Slightly less breeze, a lot more evenings outside.
Heavy vinyl-coated mesh on the lower panels and doors where claws live, with standard screen above so the lanai keeps its view and airflow.
Doors that drag, slam, or will not latch. Hinges, closers, latches, kick plates, new mesh, or a new door hung square when the old one is past adjusting.
Removable window screens re-meshed on the bench, entry-door and sliding-door screens rebuilt. The non-cage screen work for homes with and without enclosures.