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. A covered patio already sits off the back of a 1970s ranch, and the owner wants it closed against mosquitoes without demolishing a roof that is otherwise sound. Even a conversion goes to the city with a completed residential building permit application and two sets of scaled plot plans showing every existing structure beside the proposed screen walls.
The first thing we check is whether the existing slab is still flat. Blackland clay moves with the seasons, and a patio 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 reads as a bowed panel before the first bay is splined, and the drop is rarely uniform across the pour.
Where the slab has moved there are two honest options. We shim and level a treated sill so the screen walls stand square on an uneven deck, which is inexpensive and works well. Or we set the porch on its own piers outside the old concrete. Richardson permits lightweight covers to sit on spot piers three feet deep under each supporting post, and a screen room sits comfortably inside that definition.
The roof is the other question and we open it before quoting. If the existing cover is wood framing with a ledger lagged into brick veneer, half-century-old fasteners in a non-structural wythe are carrying your roof. Head flashing belongs under the shingles and underlayment above it so water runs over the joint, and the shallow eaves on these houses leave very little room to work in.
Mesh gets chosen per elevation rather than by the roll. West-facing walls take solar screen, which is sold by the share of sun it blocks, because the afternoon load is why the space goes unused from June onward. Shaded north bays take 18x14 fiberglass so you keep airflow and the view through them. Heavier pet weave goes in the door bay, where the dog actually leans.
We lay bays out to the mesh roll width so no panel carries a seam, because a seam is where a screen wall fails first. Appendix AH keeps this a patio cover rather than an addition: the longer wall and one more stay at least 65 percent open below six feet eight inches. Bedroom escape openings onto the patio stay unenclosed as well. Screen keeps you on the cover side of that line.
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 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 (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 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 (877) 719-4788 for a free screened porches & screen rooms free estimate in Richardson, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.