Patio Enclosures and Screen Rooms in Dallas–Fort Worth
A patio enclosure is a covered patio walled in with insect screen, so the breeze and the view stay and the mosquitoes, pollen and blowing rain do not. Longhorn builds them across Dallas–Fort Worth, usually under a cover you already have, with screen doors and pet-resistant mesh as options.
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What’s in Longhorn’s Patio Enclosures?
A screen room gives you the patio back on the evenings you would otherwise stay inside: mosquito season, spring pollen and rain that blows in sideways. It keeps the open-air feel, so it is still a patio, just one you can use.
Start by deciding what you want the room to do. A screen room keeps the breeze and loses the bugs. If you want to keep out cold wind or use the space for more months, look at an enclosure with removable or sliding panels, or go all the way to an all-season room.
- Keeps insects and windblown debris out
- Still completely open to the air and the view
- Screen doors and pet-resistant mesh options
Most patio enclosure projects we build are designed at the same time as the patio cover, sunroom and patio floor. That is the whole point of one team drawing the yard before anyone digs.
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How are Patio Enclosures installed, priced and cared for?
Most screen rooms go under an existing cover. If your cover is sound and tied properly into the house, screening it is simple. If the posts are undersized or the slab has moved, we fix that first, because a screen frame shows every bit of movement.
Blackland clay moves slabs, and a gap at the bottom of a screen wall lets in exactly the bugs you paid to keep out. We fit the bottom rail to the slab as it is and allow for movement.
What drives cost: the number of openings, the screen type (standard or pet-resistant), doors, knee walls and whether the cover needs work first. Enclosing a patio may need a permit; see our permit guide. The work goes measure, frame, screen, doors, then final check.
Patio Enclosures: common questions
We do not quote one figure, because the number of openings, the screen type, doors, knee walls and the condition of your existing cover all move the price. The free design visit gives you a firm price for your own patio, with no obligation.
A patio enclosure is walled in with screen, so it stays open to the air while keeping out bugs and blowing rain. A sunroom closes the space in with glass under a solid roof. If you want to heat and cool the room and use it in January, look at an all-season room.
Mosquitoes are active here from roughly March through November, with the worst of it after spring and early-fall rain. A screened enclosure is the one thing that reliably gives you the yard back in the evening during those months, because it works without spraying anything and without wind. It does not help with heat. For that you want shade or an enclosed room.
Almost always for anything attached to the house. We file it and handle the inspection so it doesn’t stall your schedule.
Usually. If the cover is sound and tied properly into the house, screening it is simple. If the posts are undersized or the slab has moved, we fix that first, because a screen frame shows every bit of movement.
A cover or pergola is typically a few days on site once permitted. Enclosures and sunrooms take longer because there’s more structure and glazing.
Hose them down gently a couple of times a year and brush off pollen in spring. Pet-resistant mesh is thicker and holds up to claws and kids better. If a panel tears, it can usually be rescreened on its own without replacing the frame.
Screens can tear or stretch in hail or in a hard wind with debris. That is usually a panel repair, not a rebuild. The cover above takes the brunt of it.
Before You Commit to Patio Enclosures
- Know what a screen room does. It keeps out mosquitoes, pollen and blowing debris while the space stays open to the air. It does not cool it, so most sit under a solid or insulated roof.
- Choose the mesh and the doors. Pet-resistant mesh and the position of the screen doors are worth deciding early, especially where the dog and the grill both need a route out.
- Check the pool barrier. If there is a pool on the lot, new walls and doors can change the barrier that code requires, so it gets planned as part of the design.
How does a patio enclosure project run?
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A free design visit
A designer measures the yard, walks the access a crew would use, and talks through what you want the space to do. You get a firm price, not a range.
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Drawings, permit and HOA
We draw the job, file the permit with your city and follow it through review. Where an HOA needs a submittal, we prepare the drawings it asks for.
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One crew, one schedule
The same team builds the whole thing in the right order, so the slab, the structure, the electrical and the finish work are not three companies blaming each other.
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Walkthrough and warranty
We walk the finished job with you, settle the punch list, and leave you with one warranty covering the work rather than a folder of separate ones.
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Who builds your project
- Family-owned since 1984. Dallas–Fort Worth homeowners have hired Longhorn for four decades. The business is still family-owned.
- One team, start to finish. The designer who measures your yard and the crew that builds it work for Longhorn, on one schedule.
- In-house crews. The people who quote the job are the people who stand behind it.
- Permits and HOA handled. We draw the job, file the permit with your city and prepare what most HOAs ask for.
- One warranty. One company answers for the whole project, not a folder of separate contractors.
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