Melbourne Elite Patio Covers provides professional retractable & motorized screens in Melbourne, FL for residential and commercial properties across the Space Coast. The most common job for these is not a new structure at all. It is the builder lanai you already have — roof up, posts in, three sides open — that you would like to close at dusk without framing it in permanently.
Retractable screens sit in a housing at the head of the opening and roll down tracks at each side. Up, the opening looks the way it always did. Down, you have an insect-free room. On a lot facing the river or a preserve, keeping that view unscreened for most of the day is worth real money.
Manual crank units are simple, inexpensive and right for one opening you use now and then. Motorised units justify themselves across a run of bays, or on anything you cannot comfortably reach. Put a wind sensor on anything motorised, because a Brevard sea breeze builds fast and fabric left down in a gust is how tracks get bent.
The retention track is the whole product. Look for a zippered edge or a channel that captures the screen mechanically, so a gust cannot pull it sideways out of the guide. Tension-only systems blow out once and never run cleanly again. That one detail accounts for most of the price gap between brands.
Before hanging anything on an existing lanai we check what is holding the roof up. Screens add wind load to posts and beams a builder sized for a roof and nothing more. Sometimes that means a stiffer post or an added footing, and sometimes the existing structure is genuinely fine. Either way we would rather know first.
On wide openings we usually push for splitting the run. Two narrower screens cost slightly more in hardware and hold far better than one long panel under a heavy housing. On the east side of the house, where the wind arrives off the ocean, that recommendation gets firmer.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — extruded 6063 aluminum framing, 18x14 and no-see-um insect cloth, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, spline-and-groove screen retention, engineered piers and thickened slab edges, uplift straps and anchor schedules — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Melbourne and nearby communities including Palm Bay, West Melbourne, Melbourne Village, Indialantic.
What We Handle
Everything our retractable & motorized screens in Melbourne covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of retractable & motorized screens work in Melbourne, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- retractable screened porch
- motorized screen
- retractable screen system
- roll down screen patio
- motorized patio screen
- retractable insect screen
- power screen enclosure
- drop screen patio
- remote control patio screen
- retractable screen cost
- motorized shade screen
- phantom screen patio
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Melbourne services.
Materials, equipment and how we do retractable & motorized screens
The difference between retractable & motorized screens that lasts and retractable & motorized screens that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with extruded 6063 aluminum framing, 18x14 and no-see-um insect cloth, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, spline-and-groove screen retention, 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 Melbourne 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 Space Coast 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 retractable & motorized screens outside Melbourne
Melbourne Elite Patio Covers covers Melbourne and the surrounding communities of the Space Coast. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Palm Bay, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1960, population 119,760 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in West Melbourne, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1959, population 25,924 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Melbourne Village, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1957, population 681 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Indialantic, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1952, population 3,010 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Melbourne Beach, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1923, population 3,231 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Indian Harbour Beach, FL — Brevard County, incorporated in 1955, population 9,019 at the 2020 census
Start on the Melbourne Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Melbourne Chooses Melbourne Elite Patio Covers
- ✓15+ years of screen and patio structure work in Brevard County, from Palm Bay to Titusville
- ✓Wind-load calculations and footings sized to your address, not to a supplier's span chart
- ✓Extruded 6063 aluminum with screw chases and factory-baked powder coat, not roll-formed kit pan
- ✓Stainless hardware specified where salt exposure warrants it and left off where it does not
The standards behind retractable & motorized screens
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The retractable & motorized screens work we do in Melbourne 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 retractable & motorized screens project in Melbourne 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 retractable & motorized screens free estimate in Melbourne, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.