Screen Porches Built for Alpharetta Homes
Screen America builds custom screen porches across Alpharetta and North Fulton County. This is a screen company and nothing else, and has been since 1997. That matters mostly in what you are quoted: a porch priced by someone who does this every day, rather than a line item wedged between a kitchen and a bathroom on a general contractor's schedule.
What We Usually Find on Alpharetta Houses
Most of the work in this part of North Fulton falls into three shapes. There is the deck off the back of a nineties or early-2000s subdivision house, often raised a full storey over a walk-out basement, which needs framing and screening designed for the height rather than a kit dropped on top. There is the covered patio on a newer build, already roofed, where the job is closing in what is there. And there is the second-storey porch on a sloped lot, where the structure carries more load than people expect and the screen has to reach further than a standard panel run.
Every one of those is measured and built for the opening it goes into. There are no kit sizes and no standard panels, because houses do not come in standard sizes.
HOA and Architectural Review
Most Alpharetta and Milton subdivisions have an active architectural review committee, and a screen porch is nearly always a submission. This is the thing that catches people out: the work gets scheduled, the materials arrive, and then approval turns into a six-week wait.
Start that submission early. Tell us at the assessment that your neighborhood has architectural review and we will get you what committees usually want to see — dimensions, materials, finish colors, and where the structure sits relative to the house and the property line. We cannot approve it for you and we cannot promise a timeline on their end, but you should not be discovering the requirement halfway through.
Choosing the Screen
Mesh matters more than people expect, and it is the cheapest decision to get right at the start. Standard fiberglass is the default and it disappears from inside. Charcoal reads darker from the outside and gives you more privacy without losing the view out. A tighter solar mesh cuts heat and glare noticeably on a west-facing porch, which in a North Georgia summer is the difference between a room you sit in during August and one you do not.
Pollen season is the other honest reason people here screen a porch. Screen will not stop pollen — nothing will — but it keeps the furniture and the floor clean enough to use in April instead of hosing everything down first.
Frames come in white, beige, silver, almond, sandstone, black and bronze, so the frame matches the house rather than announcing itself.
Running It Alongside the Committee
Nothing is owed for the assessment and nothing is owed at the end of it. We come out, measure, say what we would do and leave a price behind. If you are not ready for a visit, photographs taken from the garden looking back at the house are usually enough for us to give you a figure without coming out.
The part worth planning around here is the overlap with your architectural review. Two to three weeks covers most projects from first visit to finished, and the bulk of that is not spent at your house at all: a panel porch is built at the shop across roughly six or seven days once we have measurements, then goes up in anything from a couple of hours to a single day.
Those shop days can run while your submission is still sitting with the committee. That is the practical reason we ask about review at the assessment rather than later — get the drawings in early and the two waits happen at the same time instead of one after the other. Left the other way round, a six-week approval and a three-week build become nine weeks.
You walk the finished porch with us before we leave, and anything that is not right is put right then. Later on, if a post settles or a door drops out of square, ring us and we come back out. The labor is ours to stand behind.
Screen Repair in Alpharetta Too
We repair porches we did not build, and a good deal of the week goes on exactly that: torn panels, punctured screen, bent frames and doors that no longer close. Send a close-up of the damage and we can usually price it from the photo.
Materials, frame colors and glazing options are set out in full on the installation page.