Screen Porches and Screen Repair Across Metro Atlanta
Screen America builds and repairs screen porches, patio enclosures and sunrooms across the north side of metro Atlanta. Screens are the whole business — not a sideline for a deck builder or a remodeler — and have been since 1997.
We Are Not an Atlanta Company, and That Is the Point
We are based in Ball Ground, up in Cherokee County, and we drive down. Plenty of contractors describe themselves as Atlanta companies when what they mean is that they will take Atlanta work, so it seems worth being straight about it.
What you get for that is a specialist rather than a general contractor with a screening crew. Most of the outfits bidding against us on a screen porch are deck builders, remodelers or patio-enclosure suppliers who do screens as one line among many. We do not do kitchens or remodels, and we do not do decks except as the base for a porch we are screening. Screen is the product. The one exception is a full sunroom, where the structural work goes to a builder and we do the glazing and the screening — explained here.
The practical limit is distance, and we would rather be clear than waste your afternoon: we regularly drive an hour and a half to two hours for a project and further for larger jobs, which covers the northern half of the metro comfortably. If you are further out than that, call and ask rather than guessing — the answer is often still yes, particularly on a bigger job.
What Metro Atlanta Houses Need
The range here is wider than anywhere else we work. An intown bungalow with a small covered porch, a nineties subdivision house with a raised deck over a walk-out basement, and a new build with an already-roofed patio are three genuinely different jobs, and only the last one is close to straightforward.
Each is measured and built for the opening it goes into. No kit sizes, no standard panels, because the houses are not standard.
Pollen, Heat and Which Mesh Actually Helps
Two things drive the decision here more than anywhere else. Pollen season is severe, and while no screen stops pollen, it keeps a porch clean enough to use in April rather than hosing it down first. And a west-facing porch in an Atlanta August is unusable without help — a tighter solar mesh cuts heat and glare enough to change that, at the cost of a slightly darker view.
Standard fiberglass is the default and disappears from inside. Charcoal reads darker from outside and buys privacy on a close lot without losing the view out. Frames come in white, beige, silver, almond, sandstone, black and bronze. The full detail is on the installation page.
How the Project Runs
The assessment is free and there is no obligation at the end of it. Given the drive, photos are worth sending first — a couple from the yard looking back at the house, and we can often tell you what the job involves before anyone gets in a truck.
Expect two to three weeks between the first visit and a finished porch. Very little of that involves anyone being at your house: the panels are made up at the shop, which takes six or seven days once the measurements are in hand, and fitting them takes anything from a couple of hours to one full day. At this distance that split is in your favour — almost all of the waiting happens forty miles away and none of it in your garden.
Before we drive off you walk the porch with us, and whatever is not right gets sorted while we are still there. If something shifts afterwards — a settling post, a door dropping out of square — call and we will come back for it. Distance does not change that; the labor is ours.
Repairs and Rescreens
We repair porches we did not build, and a good deal of the week goes on it: torn panels, punctured screen, bent frames, doors that no longer close, and window screens by the houseful. Send a close-up of the damage and we can usually price it from the photo. On a repair at this distance that is worth doing before booking a visit — more detail on the screen repair page.