Bug-free, shade-controlled patios for Plano's gated estates and established neighborhoods — installed and serviced by a Plano-based owner-led crew.
Plano enjoys one of the longest patio seasons in North Texas — roughly 229 sunny days a year — but the same warm, humid stretch that makes a covered patio worth having is also peak mosquito season along the city's creeks and greenbelts. Motorized retractable screens are one of our most-requested installs in Plano because they turn an open patio or loggia into a bug-free, shade-controlled outdoor room at the touch of a button, then roll away when you want the open view back.
Plano's prettiest backyards sit right on the water and the woods — and so do its mosquitoes. Indian Creek runs through the 200-acre Arbor Hills Nature Preserve on the west edge of town, the Bluebonnet Trail follows Spring Creek for miles, and Cottonwood and Spring Creeks thread the east side. The City of Plano runs a West Nile surveillance program with dozens of mosquito trap sites tested through the season and openly advises residents to limit outdoor time at dusk and dawn during peak months. The city larvicides public creeks and drainage — but your patio is on its own. A sealed, motorized insect screen is what lets you actually use the patio during those prime evening hours without the bug pressure.
West Plano is a premium, master-planned market — golf-fairway lots, guard-gated estates, and waterfront homes around Willow Bend and Gleneagles Country Club, where a clean retractable screen disappears into the architecture instead of boxing in the view. East Plano tells a different story: its established 1970s–80s homes usually already have a covered patio in place, which makes them ideal retrofit candidates — often just a motor and an electrical tie-in rather than any new structure.
Much of Plano is HOA-governed, and most communities require written architectural-committee approval before exterior work. A retractable screen is usually an easier approval than a fixed enclosure precisely because it doesn't permanently change the home's elevation, and we prepare the submittal for you. On the city side, the City of Plano requires a building permit for patio covers and for the electrical work that powers a motor; a screen added to an already-permitted covered patio is a gray area we confirm with Plano Building Inspections on every job — and we handle the permit and the licensed electrical work wherever it's required.
Most motorized patio screens in Plano cost $3,500–$7,000 installed per opening. Manual retractable screen doors start around $1,350, and the large-opening manual Mirage 3500 starts around $3,500. Almost nobody around here publishes pricing. We'd rather you walk in knowing the ballpark than sit through a sales pitch to hear a number.
Multi-opening enclosures, clear-vinyl four-season rooms, motorized shade packages, and restaurant & commercial buildouts are designed and quoted per project. Most land between $15,000 and $65,000+ depending on openings, materials, build-out, and site conditions.
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Most single motorized screens in Plano run $3,500–$7,000 installed, depending on the opening's width and height: a typical single opening up to about 10 ft wide and 10 ft tall lands $3,500–$6,000, a 12–16 ft covered-patio span $4,000–$7,000, and large 16–24 ft, tall-drop, or multi-screen builds $6,000–$12,000+. Manual retractable screen doors start around $1,350. Clear-vinyl four-season rooms and multi-opening enclosures are quoted per project, most landing $15,000–$65,000+. Your exact fixed quote is free, on-site, and usually same-week.
The City of Plano requires a building permit for patio covers and for the electrical work that powers a motorized screen; a screen added to an existing, already-permitted covered patio can be a gray area. We confirm the requirement with Plano Building Inspections on every job and handle the permit and licensed electrical work whenever it's needed — you're never left guessing.
Usually, yes. Most Plano HOAs — Willow Bend, Deerfield, Hunters Glen, Avignon and others — require written architectural-committee approval for exterior changes, and a retractable screen is typically easier to approve than a fixed enclosure because it doesn't permanently alter the home's elevation. We prepare the documentation your HOA asks for.
All of Plano — from the West Plano estates of Willow Bend, Kings Gate, Normandy Estates and Lakeside on Preston to the established homes of East Plano like Hunters Glen and Deerfield. We're based right here in Plano.
They do. Plano's creeks and greenbelts — Indian Creek by Arbor Hills, the Bluebonnet Trail along Spring Creek, Cottonwood Creek — keep mosquito pressure high through the warm months, and the city itself advises limiting outdoor time at dusk and dawn during West Nile season. A sealed, motorized insect screen lets you use the patio during exactly those hours.