Serving the greater Tampa Bay area

Deck Repair and Screen Repair in Clearwater

A lot of the Clearwater calls start with a screen. A panel tore in a storm, or the cage has gone brittle after enough seasons of salt and sun and now it sags where it used to be tight. The rest start with a deck board that went soft underfoot. Both are fixable, and neither one has to turn into a bigger project than it is.

I'm Ricky Powers. I've been working on homes in Tampa Bay for 30+ years, and I still walk every job myself. When you call, you talk to me.

What we do

We repair what's already standing, and we build low decks that sit on the ground.

Screen panel repair and re-screening on a porch, lanai, or pool cage you already have.
Board replacement, a few soft ones or the whole surface.
Resurfacing over a frame that's still sound.
Railing repair and replacement, with coastal-grade hardware.
Sanding, cleaning, and refinishing.
Gates and screen doors that sag, stick, or won't latch.
Low decks that sit on the ground, built new.

What we don't take on

Building or rebuilding a pool enclosure, raised and elevated decks, structural framing and footings, and anything that ties into the house are outside what we do right now. Near the water there's usually a flood-elevation question sitting underneath a job like that, and the place to start is the City of Clearwater or Pinellas County, not me.

What salt and sun do to a screen

Screen this close to the gulf rarely fails all at once. It goes brittle first, loses its stretch, and then one storm finds the weakest panel and takes it out. The spline dries and shrinks, so panels pull away at the corners even where the mesh is fine.

Replacing one panel is a short visit. Waiting until half the cage is loose turns it into a much longer one, and by then the frame hardware has usually rusted too. If you can see daylight at a corner, that's the moment to call.

The homes we see around Clearwater

Most of this work is on coastal and beach-adjacent houses where a pool and a screen cage came with the place, and the backyard is the reason people bought it. Those houses take salt air every single day, so the hardware and the finishes are usually what fail, not the structure.

One crew, and a straight answer

You won't get handed off. The crew that pulls the torn screen is the one that sets the new panel and sweeps up before it leaves. And if what you've got needs more than a repair, you'll hear that from me first, not after you've paid for the small version.