Storm Damage Repair in St. Augustine, FL

Anastasia Island pool cages sit in a rough spot — Matanzas Inlet salt wind from the west, direct Atlantic exposure from the east. Homes in the 32080 and 32084 zips with aluminum frames from the 1970s and 80s are now 40-plus years old, and spline grooves corrode long before the screen itself lets go. One hard August windstorm can pull Phifer 18x14 fiberglass panels clean off a cage that looked fine the week before.

St. Augustine Shores in the 32086 zip built out heavily through the 1990s — hundreds of pool enclosures in that subdivision are now hitting the 20-25 year mark where 2x2 hollow aluminum tubing starts to pit and corner brackets begin failing at the connection points. Older ribbon-frame cage designs from that era weren't engineered to today's wind uplift requirements. Historic Uptown and Lincolnville carry pre-war concrete block homes with smaller lanai additions from the 70s and 80s, and storm damage there tends to go right into the frame, not just the screen panels. Further north in the 32092 zip, Palencia and Murabella are early-2000s master- planned communities where pool enclosures were standard builder installs. Those cages are box-frame designs, mostly 2x2 tubing, and they're now 15-20 years old — old enough that spline groove channels have started cracking and kick-plates are chalking out from UV. Treaty Oaks off SR-16 is similar vintage. World Golf Village homeowners there tend to have larger cages with higher HOA expectations on color match and finished appearance, so we carry a range of anodized aluminum stock to match original frame tone. The 32082 corridor along Palm Valley Road runs close to the Intracoastal — salt air accelerates fastener failure and frame oxidation on those properties faster than inland addresses by a visible margin. Post-storm, that combination of salt corrosion plus wind load is what turns a rescreen job into a partial frame rebuild.