About us
The crew that actually shows up
Too many homeowners have a story about a screen contractor who did not call back, did not show up, or did sloppy work that came apart by the next storm season. We started Suncoast Screen to be the opposite: a local, family-run repair crew that turns up when we say we will, does the work clean, and stands behind it long after we have loaded the ladder back on the truck. Whether it is one torn panel on a Bradenton lanai or a full pool-cage re-screen out on Siesta Key, you deal with the same people from the first phone call to the final walkthrough. No call center, no rotating subcontractors, no runaround, and no pressure to buy more than the repair in front of you actually needs. Screens are all we do, every day, across these same neighborhoods, so the crew that shows up already knows how a cage like yours is built and how the Gulf coast climate tends to wear it down.
What we stand for
Three plain promises we actually keep
We show up
When we give you a day, we are there, and if anything ever changes you hear it from us first, with a phone call, not silence. Reliable scheduling is the whole reason we are in business. We know that losing a half-day waiting on a contractor who never turns up is one of the most frustrating parts of owning a home on the Suncoast, so we keep our route tight across Manatee and Sarasota County, we give you an honest arrival window, and we let you know the moment weather or a bigger job ahead of yours shifts the timing. Showing up is not a bonus feature here. It is the promise that everything else we do is built on top of, and it is the fastest way we know to earn the referral to your neighbor down the street.
We do it right
Screen tensioned properly so it will not ripple in the wind, spline seated all the way into the channel, hardware chosen to survive Gulf-coast salt air instead of rusting out next season, and the old screen and debris hauled away when we leave. We would rather do the repair once and have it last than come back for the same sagging panel in six months. That means we look at the frame, the spline channel and the fasteners around the panel we are fixing, not just the mesh itself, because a fresh tear is often a symptom of a loose spline or a bent channel that will pull the new screen right back out if we ignore it. Doing it correctly the first time is cheaper for you and easier for us, and it is the only way a repair actually earns its keep through a Florida summer of sun, wind and afternoon storms.
We treat your enclosure like our own
We work clean around your pool, deck, screen door and patio furniture, we lay down protection where a job calls for it, and we treat your home the way we would want ours treated. You should not be able to tell we were there except that the screen is tight again and the view through it is clear. We pick up every offcut of mesh, every length of old spline and every stray fastener before we pull out of the driveway, and we walk the finished cage with you so you can run a hand along the panel and see the repair for yourself. Respecting your property is not an extra we charge for. It is simply how a local crew that hopes to be invited back does the work, on your home and on the next one down the block.
We live here too
Local, licensed and insured
We are not an out-of-town outfit chasing storm work and vanishing when the season ends. We live and work on the Suncoast, and we know exactly what these enclosures go through. The salt air off the Gulf rusts hardware and fasteners, the relentless UV turns older mesh brittle and chalky, the no-see-ums and love bugs find every pinhole gap, the oak pollen and debris clog and stain the screen, and every storm season tests every panel and every anchor. That local knowledge is the difference between a repair that looks fine on day one and a repair that actually holds up through a full Florida summer. When we choose a mesh, a spline size or a fastener, we are choosing it for this climate and this coastline, not picking a generic part out of a catalog that was written for somewhere the salt and sun are gentler.
We are licensed and insured, and we cover Manatee & Sarasota County end to end: Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Palmetto, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Holmes Beach, Sarasota, Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Osprey, Nokomis, Casey Key, Venice and the neighborhoods in between. Most of what we do is re-screening, screen-door repair, spline replacement and storm-damage work, repairs and restorations rather than brand-new cage construction, which is exactly why your job gets our full attention instead of sitting behind a big commercial build. If you can smell the Gulf from your lanai, chances are we are already fixing screens on your street this week.
Being repair-only is a deliberate choice, not a limitation. The big enclosure companies make most of their money on new construction, so a torn panel, a sagging screen or a sticking pool-cage door tends to sit at the bottom of their list for weeks while their crews chase the next full build. That is the exact job we live for. It means we can usually come out within the week, fix what is genuinely wrong, and be gone the same day, without trying to talk you into a whole new cage you do not need or a bundle of upgrades that has nothing to do with the problem you called about. And when a repair honestly is not worth doing, and a section really does need rebuilding, we will tell you that plainly too, so you can make the decision with real information in front of you instead of a scare tactic. Repairs are not a sideline we squeeze in between bigger contracts; they are the entire business, and that focus is what lets us move fast and get the small details right.
It also means we have almost certainly seen your problem before, on a hundred Suncoast cages just like yours. We know which fasteners survive the salt and which ones rust to powder in a single season, which mesh finally stops the no-see-ums on a screened lanai near the water, and how to match new screen to sun-faded panels so a single-panel repair does not stand out like a bright patch. We know how a tall two-story pool enclosure in Lakewood Ranch behaves differently from a low lanai cage on Anna Maria Island, and we bring the right ladder, the right tension and the right approach for each one. When a storm rolls through, we know how to get your enclosure closed back up quickly and photographed properly so your insurer has exactly what it needs. That is not a sales pitch. It is simply what you learn fixing screens on the Gulf coast, year after year, house after house, from the barrier islands to the inland ranch communities.
What working with us is like
Easy, honest steps from first call to finished
1 · An honest quote
We come out and look, or you send a few photos to get started, then we measure the panels or the whole cage and give you a clear written price before anything happens. There is no charge for the visit, no pressure to book on the spot, and no upsell to a job you do not need. If a couple of photos are enough for us to quote a small repair, we will save you the wait and price it straight away rather than dragging out an extra trip across the county.
2 · A schedule you can count on
Once you approve the number, we book you in, usually within the week, and we show up on the day we promised. Most repairs, from a single torn panel to a full screen-door rebuild, are finished in one visit, so you are not living with an open cage or a taped-up screen for days on end while the bugs get in. Larger full-cage re-screens are scheduled for the time they honestly need, and we tell you that up front so the timeline is never a surprise.
3 · Real people, easy to reach
You are talking to the folks actually doing the work, not a call center reading a script from three states away. Questions before, during or after the job get a real answer from someone who has seen your cage with their own eyes. If you think of something a week later, you call the same number and reach the same crew, and we are happy to walk you through whatever came up rather than passing you around.
4 · We stand behind it
If something is not right with our repair, we come back and make it right. That is the whole point of hiring a local crew you can actually find again next season. The specific terms of your guarantee are spelled out in plain language on your written estimate, so you know exactly what is covered before we start rather than after something goes wrong and the fine print suddenly matters.