Cost guesses

[csgray]

We have a very large concrete area under most of our house, next to the laundry room and the guest room. It gets great breezes and is a wonderful place to hang out on hot days, but once the sun goes down it turns into cockroach hell. Plus, our dogs like to decorate it with every fallen palm frond they can drag in.

I would like to screen in part of this area to use for our poker nights, and on hot days when the LR isn't comfortable. What do our Punaweb experts guess I would have to spend per lineal foot for turning this into a screened lanai. The screens would be covering 8ft heights from the smooth finished concrete to beams or sheet rocked ceiling, about 45-60 linear feet in all with two screened doors. Any educated ideas on cost per foot?
Mahalo

Carol

[Carey]

Cost of the screen PLUS framing, and doors. The framing needed where cost estimates could range the most - it would depend on the spans that have to be bridged & how secure you want the screens in.

The very basic (but maybe not the cheapest) is to set up screens they sell for garage doors, many even have passage openings. most of these are not framed & roll up much like a tent door. The most elaborate is to fully frame in the area with dimensional lumber & fully framed out doorways.... and then there is everything in between.

[csgray]

I want to do this right because we will be spending a lot of time in this space and I am a mosquito magnet.
The job would be:
framing and screening an 18ft run
framing and screening and placing a door in an 8 ft run
framing and screening a 12ft run
framing and screening a 15ft run with another door
There are some shear walls already in place that are framed and finished, that's why the numbers don't add up to a rectangle, it is actually 3 walls. The fourth wall is the wall of the guest room and laundry room. Most screened lanais I grew up with in the Midwest (where they are often called "sleeping porches" which tells you what the summers are like) had cross bracing 1/2 way up with regularly spaced upright supports. That is the level of framing I would be interested.

Carol

[Hotzcatz]

For a small non-standard job like this, make a parts list and then look up the parts prices at the local hardware stores.
You could do this yourself, it wouldn't be hard. Especially with a staple gun and then put a strip of trim over the staples. Place a 2" x 4" on the floor where you want the screen to go, put a 2" x 4" on the ceiling. Put "studs" vertical for however wide the screen is, then hold the screen up against the vertical studs and staple it on. (Painting the boards first would make the painting part much easier.) Then cover the staples with a strip of wood and you've got a screen lanai.

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Kurt Wilson

[Sue Nomie]

We just went through this process trying to screen in our lanai. We also had 8 ft ceilings but didn't want to chop up the view with 4 ft wide sections of framed screening. We used SCREEN PRO which is a company right here in Puna that made custom aluminum framed screens to my dimensions right on site. The owners' name is Bill Farnsworth @ 808-217-2665 . It just wasn't that much more than doing it myself but looks 100% better than if I had done it with Home Depot parts.

[Bullwinkle]

A place like rudys tarps that sells bulk screen is worth the extra stop. Much cheaper and superior quality to the home depot stuff

[Hotzcatz]

Yeah, plus it keeps Rudy busy and outa trouble! He's a good guy and has a nice family, too.

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Kurt Wilson

[csgray]

Where is Rudy's Tarps?

Carol

[janeadams]

First stoplight on 130 before keaau -- turn makai, and then right into Greenhouse Specialists across from the credit union. Rudy's is the big white structure.

[john the architect]

There is a very god vinyl product called Screen Tite you can special order through Home Depot. It makes custom screens that are repairable and replaceable. it is the best method from a clean architectural perspective, if that is what you want.