Screen Porch Installation Across North Georgia
Screen America builds custom screen porches across North Georgia from a base in Ball Ground. Screens are the whole business — not a sideline for a deck builder or a remodeler — and have been since 1997. Every porch is measured and built for the opening it goes into: no kit sizes, no standard panels.
Where We Actually Go
The core of the work is Cherokee, Pickens, Forsyth, Cobb, Bartow and North Fulton counties — Ball Ground, Canton, Holly Springs, Waleska, Jasper, Woodstock, Cumming, Milton, Alpharetta, Roswell, Marietta, Acworth, Kennesaw and Cartersville among the towns in them.
Beyond that we go further than people expect. An hour and a half to two hours is a normal drive for a project rather than an exception, and for larger jobs we travel further still. If you are outside the counties above, the answer is often still yes — call and ask rather than assuming.
Why a Porch Here Is Built Differently
North Georgia is not flat, and that is the single biggest thing that shapes this work. A lot of the housing stock sits on a slope with a walk-out basement, which means the deck off the back is frequently a full storey up. Screening something at that height is a structural question before it is a screening one — the framing carries more load, the panel runs are longer, and the drop below the rail changes what the door has to do.
The seasons pull in both directions too. Summers are hot enough that a west-facing porch needs a solar mesh to be usable in August, and the pollen in spring is heavy enough that it, not insects, is what finally makes people screen a deck they have owned for years. Then in autumn the same porch is the best room in the house, which is the part nobody puts in the brochure.
Three Ways These Jobs Usually Start
An existing deck. The most common by some distance. The part that decides whether it looks right is how the new framing meets the old structure, so we check what is underneath before quoting rather than after.
A covered patio. Already roofed, so the job is closing in what is there. Usually the quickest of the three.
Nothing yet. A porch built from the ground, deck and screening designed together so the structure carries the enclosure properly instead of having one bolted onto the other later. That is a deck and porch together, and it is worth doing in that order.
How the Project Runs
The assessment is free and there is no obligation at the end of it. We measure, tell you what we think and leave you a number. If you would rather not book a visit yet, send a couple of photos from the yard looking back at the house — we can often tell you what it would take without coming out.
Most projects run two to three weeks from the first visit to finished. Less of that is spent at your house than the number suggests: a panel porch is assembled at the shop over about six or seven days after we measure, then installed in anywhere from a couple of hours to a full day. An extruded aluminum enclosure is fabricated on site and takes a day or two.
We walk the finished job with you before we leave and anything that is not right gets fixed on the spot. If something moves later — a post settles, a door starts to sag — call us and we come back. We stand behind the labor.
Mesh, Frames and Glazing
Rather than repeat it here, the full set of options — mesh types and shades, the seven frame colors, and sliding vinyl glazing for a porch you want to use in March and October — is set out on the screen porch installation page, and enclosures have their own page.