Riviera Dunes is Palmetto's master-planned marina community on the Manatee River, and its cages were built together, to one standard, facing the same water. That makes them easier to read than a mixed street. When one enclosure shows slack cables or brittle mesh, its neighbors of the same age are usually close behind. Bradenton Lanai Screens connects homeowners in Riviera Dunes with a local screen contractor.
Helene passed in September 2024 and Milton's wind crossed two weeks later, so most cages here have been through a live test. A hurricane cable check before June looks at tension, condition, and the concrete anchors, because the diagonal bracing is part of the cage's engineered wind load path. Where the mesh has gone chalky and loose across the whole enclosure at once, which happens to same-age cages together, pool cage rescreening resets it in one visit.
Riviera Dunes sits inside the City of Palmetto, which has its own building department. Like-for-like rescreening usually needs no permit; structural aluminum repair does.
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Made safe first, photographed before anything comes down, then rescreened. The post-storm workflow for cages and lanais from the river to the island, with the queue stated plainly.
Full or partial mesh replacement on aluminum pool enclosures. Walls, roof, or the whole cage, new spline throughout, mesh matched to salt and sun exposure.
Single panels and small sets: torn mesh, blown spline, sagging sections. Mesh matched to the existing weave so the repair disappears.
The diagonal bracing cables are part of the cage's wind engineering. Tension, corrosion, and anchor condition checked; slack or rusted runs replaced before June.
Every screw connection renewed once with marine-grade stainless steel. Decades of wind cycling fatigue the originals quietly; rust at the heads is the cage asking.
Fresh mesh and spline for under-truss lanais, screened porches, and patio rooms, with doors and kick plates renewed at the same visit.
Bent or creased members replaced, racked door openings squared, kick plates and gutter-line attachments repaired. The structural work short of a rebuild, permitted where required.