Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers provides professional screened lanais & screen rooms in Fort Myers, FL for residential and commercial properties across Southwest Florida. Down here the screened room came with the house. A lanai is not a porch somebody added on a whim; it is where the living room stops. Most of our work is making an existing one usable again rather than inventing one from nothing.
Mesh gets decided by address, not by preference. Standard 18x14 stops mosquitoes and nothing smaller than that. Along the mangrove edges of the river and through the canal system, no-see-ums walk straight through it, and 20x20 is the only mesh that answers. Out toward Lehigh Acres and Alva the pressure drops and 18x14 is honest advice.
Where there is no lanai to work with, the frame becomes a permitted structure and Lee County reviews it as one. Screen looks weightless and is not. A wall of mesh in a gust puts real load into the posts, and the wind speeds mapped over this county sit among the strictest in Florida, so footings and the anchor schedule come before any conversation about mesh.
A great many accessory structures here have been through permitting again since 2022, and reviewers look harder at screen rooms than they once did. If your enclosure predates that and you want it enlarged, expect the whole frame to be assessed rather than the new bay alone. Better to hear that at the measure than after the plan comes back marked up.
Half the lanais we touch belong to people who are not in the state. June through October is our open calendar and our preferred window for screen work anyway. You get photographs at each stage, a call before anything changes, and the house locked the way we found it.
On the tight lots through Iona and Villas there is often no room for a freestanding screen room at all. Extending the existing lanai two bays gets you the same square footage for less money and no argument about setbacks. We will say that before quoting the bigger job.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — powder-coated extruded aluminum framing, 20x20 no-see-um screen mesh, 18x14 standard insect screening, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, engineered footings and anchor embedment, hurricane uplift straps and tie-down connections — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Fort Myers and nearby communities including Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, Bonita Springs.
What We Handle
Everything our screened lanais & screen rooms in Fort Myers covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of screened lanais & screen rooms work in Fort Myers, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- screened in porch
- screened lanai
- lanai screening
- screen room
- screened porch contractor
- lanai screen enclosure
- screen porch installation
- screened in back porch
- lanai extension
- screen room addition
- screened porch panels
- screened lanai cost
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Fort Myers services.
Materials, equipment and how we do screened lanais & screen rooms
The difference between screened lanais & screen rooms that lasts and screened lanais & screen rooms that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with powder-coated extruded aluminum framing, 20x20 no-see-um screen mesh, 18x14 standard insect screening, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Fort Myers job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of patio cover work in Southwest Florida means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do screened lanais & screen rooms outside Fort Myers
Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers covers Fort Myers and the surrounding communities of Southwest Florida. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in Cape Coral, FL — Lee County, incorporated in 1970, population 194,016 at the 2020 census
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in Lehigh Acres, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated census-designated place, population 114,287 at the 2020 census
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in North Fort Myers, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated community across the river, population 42,719 at the 2020 census
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in Bonita Springs, FL — Lee County, reincorporated as a city in 1999, population 53,644 at the 2020 census
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in Estero, FL — Lee County, incorporated as a village in 2014, population 36,939 at the 2020 census
- Screened Lanais & Screen Rooms in San Carlos Park, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated census-designated place south of the city, population 18,563 at the 2020 census
Start on the Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Fort Myers Chooses Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Over 15 years screening lanais and pool cages across Lee County
- ✓Engineered footings, anchor schedules and uplift connections — not kit hardware
- ✓20x20 no-see-um mesh where the canals and mangroves demand it, standard mesh where they do not
- ✓We pull the Lee County permit and supply the engineering plan review asks for
The standards behind screened lanais & screen rooms
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The screened lanais & screen rooms work we do in Fort Myers follows published industry standards: International Code Council writes the IRC provisions that govern attached covers and their footings, and FGIA sets the wind-load performance standards for glazed and framed products. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every screened lanais & screen rooms project in Fort Myers gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free screened lanais & screen rooms free estimate in Fort Myers, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.