Lanai and Screen Enclosure Cleaning in Brunswick, GA

A screen enclosure is an aluminum frame holding fiberglass screen in place with a rubber spline pressed into a channel. That's the whole assembly, and every part of it is a reason not to bring real pressure near it.

High pressure tears fiberglass screen outright. Short of tearing it, it pushes the panel hard enough to force the spline out of its channel, and once the spline is out the screen is loose whether it's cut or not. The frame is thin-wall aluminum, so pressure aimed at it dents the member and works the fasteners loose. None of that comes back.

So the cage gets soft washed. Low pressure and the right cleaning solution, with dwell time doing the work instead of force. The screens are cleaned at low pressure from inside and outside — both faces, because growth and pollen load the weave from both directions — and they go from gray back to black. The aluminum frame and the roof panels of the cage are held to the same low-pressure standard, so panels don't dent and nothing gets loosened.

The same low-pressure rule applies to siding, painted wood, roofs and anything else above the driveway — see how soft washing works on surfaces that can't take real pressure for the method behind it. Real pressure is reserved for concrete, pavers and other hard surfaces built to take it. Everything else gets the soft wash method — low pressure and the right solution — because the surface can't take the alternative.

How the cage actually gets cleaned

1. Low-pressure rinse first, to knock loose pollen and debris off the screen.
2. Then cleaning solution on the screen, inside and outside, with dwell time to break down the mildew and algae worked into the weave.
3. Same solution, same low pressure, on the aluminum frame and the roof panels — no dents, no loosened fasteners.
4. The rinse runs away from the water; solution never touches the pool.
5. A gentle rinse follows on every panel, then a quick skim of the pool for anything that drifted in.

If there's a pool inside the cage, the protocol is the same on every job.

Solution goes on the deck, not the pool. The rinse is run so the water moves away from the pool rather than toward it. If the pool has a cover, the cover goes on before anything starts. And afterward the crew does a quick skim, which handles whatever drifted in off the screens while the cage was being rinsed.

That's the standard procedure on every job with a pool inside the cage, run automatically rather than set up on request. Cleaning a screen enclosure means working directly over water, so the sequence is built to keep the solution and the rinse out of it.

We don't publish a price for this, and there's no honest way to give you a number over the phone without seeing the enclosure. Here's what changes it:

• Size of the enclosure. Panel count and frame run, not square footage of the yard.
• How heavy the buildup is. A cage with one season of pollen on it is a different job from one that has been growing mildew and algae under an oak canopy for a few seasons, because the heavy one needs more solution and more dwell time.
• Access. How the crew gets equipment and hose to the cage. On gated and island properties access is arranged ahead of time and the work is kept to the community's working hours, which is a scheduling factor as much as a pricing one.

Quotes are free and written, given after a look at the property, with no charge for the visit. One number for the whole job. That number doesn't change once we start unless we find something we couldn't see, and then you approve it before we go any further.

If the cage isn't clean to your satisfaction, we come back and re-clean it at no charge. No callback fee and no argument.