McAllen Elite Deck Builders provides professional screened porches in McAllen, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Rio Grande Valley. A screened porch is what finally lets you sit outside on a Valley evening without donating blood, and it is one of the most-used rooms we build. We frame screened porches in McAllen with a solid roof over them, tensioned screen panels with removable spline, pet-resistant mesh on the lower panels, kick panels where feet and paws land, and an outdoor-rated ceiling fan wired in from the start.
The mesh is the part clients think least about and notice most. Standard 18-by-16 fiberglass screen keeps mosquitoes out and is what most porches get. But the Valley also has biting midges — no-see-ums — that pass straight through standard mesh, and if you have ever sat out at dusk near irrigated ground and been bitten by something you never saw, that is what happened. A tighter no-see-um mesh solves it, at the cost of some airflow and a slightly darker view, which is a genuine tradeoff we will walk you through rather than decide for you. Heavy vinyl-coated polyester pet mesh is several times stronger than standard screen and belongs on the lower panels of any porch that will have a dog in it, because a dog that wants to see the yard will go through ordinary screen once and then know it can.
We build with tensioned panels and removable spline for a practical reason: screen gets damaged. A branch, a dog, a chair leg, a grandchild. With a spline system, one damaged panel is a short repair. With screen stapled and trimmed under nailed molding, the same damage is a much bigger job. Kick panels or a low knee wall at the bottom of each bay take the traffic that screen never survives, and they make the whole structure look finished rather than like a cage.
The roof is not optional. Screen stops insects and does essentially nothing about sun or rain, so a screened porch without a solid roof over it is a hot, wet screened porch. If we are screening in an existing deck or an existing open patio, the first thing we check is whether the framing and footings can carry a roof, because that load was probably never in the original design. Sometimes the answer is that we add posts and piers, and occasionally the honest answer is that the existing structure is not a good candidate and a freestanding structure alongside it is the better build. We would rather tell you that at the estimate than halfway through.
Air movement is the other thing that makes or breaks a screened room in this climate. A sealed box of still air at ninety-five degrees is not somewhere anyone sits. We frame for outdoor-rated ceiling fan boxes and have them properly wired, we design the screen bays so cross-ventilation actually happens, and where the porch faces west we will usually recommend a deeper roof overhang or a shade element on that side. Clients who add the fan are the ones who use the porch every evening.
Underneath, the floor is whatever suits the use — composite and PVC for zero maintenance, or hardwood and cedar which last unusually well in a screened porch because they stay dry and out of direct ultraviolet light. Framing is ground-contact-rated pressure-treated pine, taped and flashed, on piers with standoff bases. Screened porches are permitted work in McAllen and are treated as roofed structures in the zoning code, so we check setbacks before design goes final.
With 20+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — capped composite and cellular PVC decking, ground-contact pressure-treated southern yellow pine framing, western red cedar and clear all-heart redwood, ipe and other tropical hardwoods with hidden clip fasteners, stainless steel cable railing and tempered glass panel infill, powder-coated aluminum railing with ADA-height graspable returns — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve McAllen and nearby communities including Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, San Juan.
What We Handle
Everything our screened porches in McAllen covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of screened porches work in McAllen, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- screen room addition
- mosquito screen porch
- screened porch over existing deck
- pet resistant screen mesh
- no see um screen porch
- screened porch with ceiling fan
- screen enclosure spline system
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- Mesh choice is the whole job: standard 18x16 fiberglass, tighter no-see-um mesh, and heavy pet-resistant mesh all behave differently
- Pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester mesh on the lower panels where dogs push, standard mesh above to keep the view open
- Screen tension systems with removable spline so a single damaged panel is a repair rather than a rebuild
- A solid roof over the screen room is required — screen alone does nothing about sun or rain
- Kick panels and knee walls at the bottom to take the abuse that screen never survives
- Ceiling fans on outdoor-rated boxes, because still air in a screened room in July defeats the purpose
- Screening an existing deck requires checking the framing for the added roof load before anything else
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our McAllen services.
Materials, equipment and how we do screened porches
The difference between screened porches that lasts and screened porches that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with capped composite and cellular PVC decking, ground-contact pressure-treated southern yellow pine framing, western red cedar and clear all-heart redwood, ipe and other tropical hardwoods with hidden clip fasteners, 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 McAllen 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. 20+ years of deck building work in the Rio Grande Valley 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 outside McAllen
McAllen Elite Deck Builders covers McAllen and the surrounding communities of the Rio Grande Valley. 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 in Edinburg, TX — Hidalgo County seat, incorporated in 1919, population about 100,200, and still the fastest-growing city in the county
- Screened Porches in Mission, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1910, population about 85,800, spread over roughly 36 square miles of former citrus groves
- Screened Porches in Pharr, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1916, population about 79,700, across roughly 24 square miles running down to the river
- Screened Porches in San Juan, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1917, population about 35,300, over roughly 11 square miles of former irrigated farmland
- Screened Porches in Alamo, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1924, population about 19,500, across roughly 7.5 square miles between the expressway and the river
- Screened Porches in Donna, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1911, population about 16,800, over roughly 8 square miles of Delta-area farmland
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Why McAllen Chooses McAllen Elite Deck Builders
- ✓Footings sized for Valley clay and caliche, not for a frost line we do not have
- ✓Ground-contact-rated pressure-treated framing on every substructure, because subterranean termites here never go dormant
- ✓Stainless or triple-coated structural screws and joist tape, since galvanized fasteners give up first in humid air
- ✓Surface temperature discussed before you pick a color, because a dark composite board in July sun is a barefoot problem
Every screened porches project in McAllen 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.
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