Screen cleaning in Marco Island.

Marco Island sits out past Naples surrounded by water, so the salt load on its screens is intense from every direction — Gulf-front homes take the spray off the open water and the canal homes get it off the waterways that thread the island. Pool cages are the signature here, big screen enclosures wrapping the lanai, and on an island this exposed they load with salt fast and gray over across the whole span rather than panel by panel.

Many Marco owners are seasonal, which is exactly when an empty home's cage goes neglected — the salt keeps packing into the mesh all summer with no one there to rinse it. We work the panels and the long cage runs, flush the caked salt out of the weave, and reseat each section square in the track so the spans don't bow. It runs best as a standing add-on to exterior window cleaning so the lanai mesh and the glass stay clear straight through the off-season, ready before you fly back.

Whether it's a canal home or a Gulf-front condo, the cage benefits from the rhythm. See what that looks like and get your instant quote.