Richardson Elite Patio Covers provides professional screened porches & screen rooms in Richardson, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Telecom Corridor. Most screened porches we build in Richardson are conversions. There is already a covered patio off the back of a 1970s ranch, and the owner wants it closed against mosquitoes without tearing the whole thing down first.
The first thing we check is whether the existing slab is still flat. Blackland clay moves with the seasons, and a patio slab poured in 1974 has usually dropped at one outer corner. Screen framing is unforgiving about that. A wall half an inch out of plumb over eight feet shows as a bowed panel before you finish the first bay.
Where the slab has moved there are two honest options. We shim and level a treated sill so the screen walls sit square on an unlevel deck, which is cheap and works well. Or we set the porch on its own drilled belled piers just outside the old concrete and let the original slab float underneath as a floor. The second costs more and outlives the first.
The roof is the other question, and we open it before quoting. If the existing cover is a wood frame with a ledger lagged into brick veneer, fifty-year-old fasteners in a non-structural wythe are what is holding your roof up. Screening in a roof we do not trust is not work we take on.
Mesh gets chosen per elevation rather than by the roll. West-facing walls take solar screen, because a Richardson afternoon in August is the whole reason the space goes unused. Shaded north bays take standard 18x14 fiberglass so you keep the view through them. Pet-resistant polyester goes in the door bay only, where the dog actually pushes.
We pull the City of Richardson permit, meet the inspector, and prepare the HOA package where your street has one. Timing is worth planning: the comfortable stretch to build is late autumn through early spring, which is also when the soil is at its most predictable and the piers behave.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and 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 screened porches & screen rooms in Richardson covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of screened porches & screen rooms work in Richardson, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- screened in porch
- screened porch
- screen room
- back screened porch
- screened porch contractor
- screen porch installation
- screened porch system
- screen room addition
- screened porch panels
- screened porch door
- screened in back porch
- screened porch builder
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 screened porches & screen rooms
The difference between screened porches & screen rooms that lasts and screened porches & 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 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 screened porches & screen rooms 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.
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms in Plano, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1873, population 285,494 at the 2020 census
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms in Garland, TX — Dallas County, incorporated in 1891, population 246,018 at the 2020 census
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms in Sachse, TX — Collin and Dallas Counties, incorporated in 1956, population 27,103 at the 2020 census
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms in Murphy, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1958, population 21,013 at the 2020 census
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms in Wylie, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1887, population 57,526 at the 2020 census
- Screened Porches & Screen Rooms 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 (844) 511-2320 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 screened porches & screen rooms
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The screened porches & screen rooms 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 screened porches & screen rooms 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 (844) 511-2320 for a free screened porches & screen rooms free estimate in Richardson, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.