Porch & Lanai Screens in Dallas, TX

A Porch Is a Different Problem

Back patios are usually about heat. Front porches are usually about bugs and privacy, and about the fact that everyone driving past can see the hardware. That last point drives most of the decisions here.

Porches also tend to be smaller and more architectural than rear patios, especially on older housing stock: side porches, sleeping porches, narrow galleries with period trim that a surface-mounted box would sit badly against.

Making It Disappear

The housing can be recessed into the soffit or fascia so only a slim reveal shows, with tracks colour matched to the columns. On a well-detailed porch the retracted system should be genuinely hard to spot from the street, and getting there is mostly a measuring and detailing exercise rather than a product choice.

Mesh here is more often insect than solar, though shaded porches on hot elevations sometimes take both. If the porch is part of a wider job, the same visit covers the rear patio, and older systems already in place fall under repair. Mesh choice is settled on site.

Where Porch Work Concentrates

The interwar housing of Highland Park, University Park and Lakewood, plus period properties across Dallas, Richardson and Preston Hollow.

How long does it take? Single visit for most porches. Fascia detail occasionally adds time.