Screen and lanai repair in west Orlando.

Most west Orlando pools sit under a cage. Horizon West and Waterleigh built them as standard. Windermere and Ocoee added them later. The mesh is not decoration. It keeps oak tassels, palmetto bugs, and neighborhood cats out of the water, and it is often the thing standing between a toddler and the deck. When a panel tears, the weekly tech can skim faster. They cannot sew fiberglass.

Orlando West Pool Care matches you with a local tech for residential screen and lanai repair — pool-cage rescreening, torn panels, spline, and sticky screen doors — from Winter Garden through Clermont. We do not build new cages, we do not pull permits, and we do not claim a contractor license on this page. Mesh work is the product. Frame replacement after a named storm is a different trade; we will say so instead of quoting a rebuild we cannot do.

What this visit is

A rescreen is panel work on an existing aluminum frame:

• Pull the old spline, measure the opening, and stretch new fiberglass or polyester mesh
• Replace a single torn bay after a dog, a fallen oak limb, or a ladder
• Full-cage rescreen when UV has made the mesh brittle and every wall is chalking
• Screen-door closer, latch, and kick-plate when the door no longer self-closes

West Orange sits in NOAA’s humid subtropical rain machine. Climate normals at Orlando International Airport put more than half the year’s 51.45 inches in June–September. That water, plus Central Florida UV, is why 18×14 fiberglass on a 2014 Horizon West cage is often brittle by year ten. A patch on one bay is honest when the rest of the mesh still has give. It is a stall if every panel dusts in your hand.

Why a torn cage is also a pool problem

Debris load is the weekly-service problem. A hole at the waterline in Stoneybrook West is a second skimmer the tech did not ask for. Mustard algae likes the shade inside a cage; a torn roof panel changes the light and the leaf mat. Read mustard algae in a screened lanai and weekly pool service if the water is the emergency. This page is the envelope around the water.

If the cage is how you keep children and dogs off the deck, Florida’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act matters. Florida Statute 515.29 says a residential pool barrier must be at least four feet high on the outside and must not have gaps or openings a young child could crawl under, squeeze through, or climb over. A screen enclosure is not automatically that barrier — s. 515.27 lists several legal safety-feature options — but if your cage is the thing you are counting on, a toddler-sized tear is not a cosmetics job. We are not a building department and we will not certify a barrier. We will match a tech who can close the hole.

Mesh only vs bent frame

The Florida Building Code treats a new screen enclosure as a wind-loaded structure. Local building departments in Orange County and Lake County enforce that on new cages and on repairs that change members, anchors, height, or footprint. Replacing mesh on an unchanged frame is often handled as maintenance. That is a rule of thumb, not a permit. Confirm the actual job with the city or county that issued the original cage permit — Winter Garden, Ocoee, Oakland, Clermont, Minneola, or unincorporated Orange or Lake — before anyone cuts a beam.

After a named storm (NOAA National Hurricane Center: Atlantic season 1 June–30 November), look at the aluminum before you order mesh. A hip that dropped, a door out of square, or posts sitting on cracked footers is structural work. We will not send a rescreen tech to “make it look fine” on a racked cage.

What we will not do

We do not design or permit a new pool cage. We do not replace heaters, pumps, or salt cells — that is still outside weekly pool service. We do not inventory “hurricane-rated” mesh as a marketing line; wind design lives in the frame and the permit drawings, not in a roll of 20×20. If you need a full rebuild, ask a licensed contractor. If you need panels and a door that latches, use the form.

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