Screened Porches & Covered Patios in Greensboro, NC

The Most-Used Room in the House, Six Months a Year

Ask anyone in Greensboro with a screened porch where the household actually lives from May to October. Morning coffee without spraying yourself down, dinner outside without candles-as-air-defense, a rainstorm you can sit through instead of retreating from. The Piedmont's evenings are genuinely pleasant for half the year — mosquitoes are the tax on enjoying them, and screens are the cheapest tax dodge ever built.

There's a resale story too. In Triad listings, "screened porch" is a search filter, not a nice-to-have — established neighborhoods like Irving Park and newer ones like Lake Jeanette both price it in. Unlike most outdoor projects, a well-built porch reads as finished square footage in a buyer's mind, even though it's built at deck-project prices.

Three Ways to Get There

Screen an existing covered porch or patio

If you already have a roof over a slab or porch, screening it is the budget path — framing screen panels between existing posts, adding a screen door, and correcting any drainage issues at the slab. The catch: the existing roof and posts have to be sound and properly supported. We verify before we quote, because screening a structure that's failing just puts a nice frame around a problem.

Convert an existing deck

The most common Greensboro porch project: your deck becomes the floor of the new room. Here's the engineering honesty most bids skip — a deck built to hold people was not built to hold a roof. Roof loads change the post, beam, and footing requirements, so a conversion usually means new or upgraded footings dug below frost depth in the clay, beefed-up posts, and a ledger connection reviewed for the new loads. We assess the existing structure first and tell you plainly what carries over and what doesn't.

Build the porch from scratch

A ground-up porch — footings to shingles — gives you the room you actually want: vaulted or flat ceiling, gable or shed roof tied correctly into the house, ceiling fans wired from day one, and screens sized for the view. It's the biggest ticket on our price sheet and the one owners tell us they'd do again first.

What Porches Cost in the Triad

Published range: $20,000–$45,000+. Screening an existing covered space can land well under that; a ground-up gable-roof porch with electrical lands in the middle; big footprints, vaulted tongue-and-groove ceilings, and premium screen systems push past it. Roof framing, not screens, is what separates porch money from deck money — you're buying rafters, sheathing, shingles or metal, and the structure to carry them. Every version gets the same itemized quote: you'll see the roof, the screens, the electrical, and the footings as separate lines.

Details That Decide How Much You'll Love It

• Orientation: an east-facing porch gives you cool evenings; a west-facing one needs shade planning or July will own it.
• Ceiling fans: the single best upgrade per dollar — they extend the season on both ends and keep the air moving on still August nights.
• Screen choice: standard fiberglass is fine; tighter "no-see-um" mesh matters near water and trees; pet-resistant screen at dog height saves annual re-screening.
• Flooring: composite earns its premium fastest on a porch floor, where a roof already blocks the sun-fade that ages it elsewhere.
• The kneewall question: screens to the floor feel airiest; a 3-foot kneewall hides furniture legs and takes the winter weather better. We'll show you both.

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