An aluminum-framed screen enclosure in New Jersey runs about $8,000 to $30,000 depending on span, height and how exposed the site is. A motorized retractable screen on a porch or garage opening runs about $3,500 to $8,000 per opening. Both get anchored into concrete and both get engineered for the wind zone you actually live in — which at the shore is not the same as the one two towns inland.
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An aluminum-framed screen enclosure in New Jersey runs about $8,000 to $30,000 depending on span, height and how exposed the site is. Typical price: $3.5K – $32K. Licensed & insured, written itemized price before work starts, no deposit, one dedicated crew. Serving all 21 New Jersey counties from Paramus. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free estimate.
An enclosure is a freestanding aluminum structure with its own frame, roof and screen walls — it covers a whole patio or pool deck. A screened porch uses your existing roof and framing. A retractable screen just closes one opening on demand.
If you want to cover a pool deck, you need an enclosure. If you have a covered patio and you just want the bugs out, screening the openings is half the cost. If you have one big opening you want screened sometimes and open the rest of the time — a three-car garage, a wide porch bay — a motorized retractable screen is the right tool. We'll tell you which one your house calls for, even when it's the cheap one.
A screen wall is a sail. In Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean and southern Monmouth counties — and anywhere with open water or open field on the windward side — the design wind speeds and exposure category are higher, so the frame goes up a gauge, the posts get closer together, and the anchors get bigger and deeper. That's a real cost difference, and it's the reason a quote from a company that doesn't do shore work looks cheaper.
We anchor to poured concrete with the right embedment, not into 3 inches of patio topping. On a pool deck that often means cutting in a footing at the perimeter first. Enclosures that fail here don't blow the screen out — they lift the whole frame off the slab.
New Jersey requires a code-compliant barrier around a residential pool, and a screen enclosure only counts as that barrier if every door in it is self-closing and self-latching with the latch at the right height, and the screen itself meets the opening limits. Some do. Some don't.
We build them to count, and we tell you in writing whether the enclosure replaces your fence or sits inside it. Getting this wrong is not a cosmetic problem — it's the thing an inspector and your insurance carrier both look at.
We measure the deck or patio, check what the slab actually is, note the exposure and the prevailing wind, and write an itemized price.
Frame, post spacing and anchor schedule sized to your wind zone. Where the township wants stamped drawings, we get them.
Building permit and, for pool work, zoning and barrier review. Electrical permit if we're adding lights or outlets.
Perimeter footings cut and poured where the existing slab won't hold an anchor. Base plates set, plumbed and bolted.
Uprights, beams, roof structure and gutters assembled and fastened. Everything squared before screen goes anywhere near it.
Screen panels splined and tensioned, doors hung with self-closing hardware and adjusted.
You check every panel and every door latch with the foreman before final payment.
Paramus-based, building and repairing screen enclosures, pool cages and retractable screens across all 21 New Jersey counties — including the shore towns where the wind numbers actually matter. Storm-damaged cage from last winter? Send us a photo and we'll tell you whether it's a panel job or a frame job. Photos to (201) 676-3099 or info@firstcallcontractingnj.com — a wide shot and a close-up of a corner tells us most of it.
typical fixed-price range — your exact number goes in writing after a free visit
How we beat the big chains: The national enclosure brands run a Florida playbook on a New Jersey lot: same frame, same span tables, no snow, no nor'easter. We engineer for our loads and anchor into real concrete. No franchise fees, no commissioned salesmen, no rented subcontractors — that's typically 15–30% under national-brand quotes for the same or better spec. Bring us any written quote and we'll match the scope line by line.
“The enclosure was bolted straight into the pool deck topping. The first bad storm lifted a whole corner.”
“Every panel bellies and buzzes in the wind. They said that's normal.”
“The pool inspector failed us because the enclosure door didn't self-latch.”
You found a crew that is actually near you. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus, in Bergen County, and our own licensed techs handle screen & pool enclosures in all 21 New Jersey counties — no call center, no subcontractor sent from two states away. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies go to the nearest crew, 24/7.
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Call (201) 676-3099, text us a photo, or book a free in-home estimate — you get a written price before any work starts.
Most aluminum screen enclosures land between $8,000 and $30,000 installed. Span, height, roof style and wind exposure drive the number; a tall cage over a pool on an open shore lot costs meaningfully more than a low patio enclosure on a sheltered inland lot. Footing work, if the slab won't take anchors, is a separate written line.
A properly engineered and anchored one will. The failures we get called to repair are almost always anchoring — frames bolted into thin slab topping, or post spacing copied from a Florida span table. We size the frame and the anchors for your site's wind speed and exposure and anchor into real concrete.
Only if it meets the barrier requirements — self-closing and self-latching doors with the latch at the required height, and screen openings within the limits. We build them to comply and we put in writing whether yours replaces the fence or sits inside it. Ask any contractor for that in writing before you sign.
It's a screen on a roller in a housing above the opening, running in side tracks, dropped by remote or switch. Perfect for a wide porch bay, a garage door opening or a patio you only want screened sometimes. Figure $3,500 to $8,000 per opening installed with a hardwired circuit by our electricians.
Standard fiberglass mesh in New Jersey typically lasts about 8 to 12 years before UV makes it brittle; pet mesh and no-see-um mesh are similar. The aluminum frame lasts decades. Re-screening an existing cage costs a fraction of replacing it, and we do that as its own job.
Yes — it's a structure, so your township issues a building permit under the NJ Uniform Construction Code, and pool work gets zoning and barrier review on top. Some towns want stamped engineered drawings. We handle the filings and the inspections.
If you're anywhere in New Jersey, yes. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus and handles screen & pool enclosures across all 21 counties with our own licensed crew. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies are dispatched to the nearest crew 24/7. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free in-home estimate.
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