Lakeside patios you can actually use — sealed against the Lewisville Lake mosquitoes, shaded from the afternoon sun, installed clean by a local owner-led crew.
The Colony sits right on Lewisville Lake — tens of thousands of acres of water and more than twenty miles of shoreline — which is exactly what makes its lakeside patios so desirable and so buggy. Motorized retractable screens are made for this: they seal a Tribute or Stewart Peninsula patio against the mosquitoes the lake breeds and the west sun off the water, then roll away so you keep the view that made you buy on the lake in the first place.
Lewisville Lake gives The Colony its identity and a mosquito problem the city takes seriously. The Colony runs a mosquito surveillance program through the warm season — trapping and testing, with spraying and advance notice when a trap comes back West Nile-positive — and it has sprayed named sites near the shoreline parks. The lake and its coves keep standing water close to home, so the city treats the public side while your own patio stays exposed. A sealed motorized screen is what closes that gap on a lakeside evening.
The Colony's signature communities are built around the water and the fairways — the golf estates of The Tribute, the waterfront lots of Stewart Peninsula, the master-planned luxury of Austin Waters — and those are the patios that most want bug and glare control without a wall blocking the lake or course view. A clean retractable screen does exactly that. In Castle Hills next door, we recently screened a poolside covered patio with two very different openings: a large Mirage 3500 French-door set, and a taller-than-standard doorway where we fabricated a custom powder-coated aluminum header bracket so a 1750 could carry the extra height — with the pool view intact from inside the mesh on both. These communities also run architectural review, and we prepare the submittal so the install clears.
The Colony requires a permit when a patio cover is attached to the home (with an engineer's seal on the structural plans) and a permit for the electrical work that powers a motor. A screen on an existing covered patio may only need the electrical permit. We confirm the requirement with the City of The Colony on every job and handle the permit and licensed electrical work where it's required.
The Colony requires a permit when a patio cover is attached to the home — with an engineer's seal on the structural plans — and a permit for the electrical work that powers a motor. A screen on an existing covered patio may only need the electrical permit; we confirm with the City of The Colony and handle whatever's required.
Yes — and this is the reason screens are so popular in The Colony. The lake keeps standing water and mosquito pressure close to home, and the city traps, tests and sprays through the warm season. A sealed motorized insect screen lets you use a lakeside patio in the evening without the bites, while keeping the view.
All of The Colony — the golf estates of The Tribute, the waterfront lots of Stewart Peninsula, Austin Waters, Adeline, Austin Ranch and the surrounding lakeside communities.
Usually, yes. The Colony's master-planned communities run architectural review for exterior changes, and a retractable screen is typically easier to approve than a fixed enclosure because it doesn't permanently change the home's look. We prepare the documentation for you.