Richardson Elite Patio Covers provides professional pool cages & pool enclosures in Richardson, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Telecom Corridor. We will build a pool cage in Richardson, and we will also explain why most Richardson pools should not have one. It is a Florida structure, and the conditions that make it pay for itself there are not the conditions on an inner-ring Dallas suburb lot with expansive clay under the deck and hail arriving most springs. The economics travel badly, and so does the detailing underneath them.
A full cage is a continuous perimeter of columns ringing a pool deck, each carrying very little load. On Blackland clay that is close to the worst arrangement available: a long rigid frame with dozens of lightly loaded footings on soil that lifts unevenly through a wet spring. One corner rises, the frame goes out of square, and the mesh reports it first. The mesh tears at the corner that moved first.
Uplift is the governing load on a cage, because the structure is almost entirely surface and very little weight. The North Texas hazard is the spring squall line and the downburst rather than a coastal event, and the plan reviewer wants a calculation for your exposure category rather than an opinion. Load leaves the roof through the beams, down the posts into the piers, with a hold-down at every joint.
If you want one regardless, it gets built as a structure and not as a screen product. Belled piers under every column below the active zone, a roof framing plan giving member sizing, spacing, clear spans and species, and enough tolerance detailed into the frame to take differential movement without tearing mesh. That is the only version we are prepared to warrant in writing.
For most owners the better answer is a screened room over the patio and seating area with the water left open. You get the insect-free evening and the shade, the footprint is small enough that every column can be founded properly, and you are not screening a surface that mostly gets used in the middle of the day anyway. Midday shade is a roof question rather than a screen question.
Debris is the fair counter-argument. These older lots carry big pecans and post oaks, and skimmers work hard from October onward. A cage does help with that, but it is a maintenance trade rather than a structural one and deserves to be priced as exactly that. Build in the cooler half of the year, while the clay sits near mid-range. Piers set then, and the frame starts square instead of fighting.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, drilled belled piers below the active clay zone, hot-dip galvanized post base standoffs — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Richardson and nearby communities including Plano, Garland, Sachse, Murphy.
What We Handle
Everything our pool cages & pool enclosures in Richardson covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of pool cages & pool enclosures work in Richardson, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- pool cage
- pool enclosure
- pool screen enclosure
- screen cage pool
- pool cage rescreen
- pool cage builder
- pool enclosure cost
- pool screen cage repair
- shade over pool
- pool shade structure
- pool cage door
- covered pool structure
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Richardson services.
Materials, equipment and how we do pool cages & pool enclosures
The difference between pool cages & pool enclosures that lasts and pool cages & pool enclosures that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, 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 Richardson 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 the Telecom Corridor 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 pool cages & pool enclosures outside Richardson
Richardson Elite Patio Covers covers Richardson and the surrounding communities of the Telecom Corridor. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Plano, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1873, population 285,494 at the 2020 census
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Garland, TX — Dallas County, incorporated in 1891, population 246,018 at the 2020 census
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Sachse, TX — Collin and Dallas Counties, incorporated in 1956, population 27,103 at the 2020 census
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Murphy, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1958, population 21,013 at the 2020 census
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Wylie, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1887, population 57,526 at the 2020 census
- Pool Cages & Pool Enclosures in Allen, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1953, population 104,627 at the 2020 census
Start on the Richardson Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (877) 719-4788 and describe the job.
Why Richardson Chooses Richardson Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Over 15 years building screen rooms and patio structures across north Dallas and Collin County
- ✓Drilled piers taken below the active zone of the clay, not shallow pads that heave
- ✓Hail-rated roof material specified as standard, because North Texas is the worst hail corridor in the country
- ✓We pull the Richardson or county permit and handle the HOA package where one applies
The standards behind pool cages & pool enclosures
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The pool cages & pool enclosures work we do in Richardson 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 pool cages & pool enclosures project in Richardson 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 (877) 719-4788 for a free pool cages & pool enclosures free estimate in Richardson, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.