Nicole Green's Pool Cage Rehab in Plant City, FL. After more than 10 years in her Plant City home, Nicole's old pool cage was a mess. Instead of a full replacement, True Aluminum saved the structure and rehabilitated the entire cage.
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so instead of ripping the whole thing out we were able to keep our cage and they just did a rehab we needed true aluminum services because we've lived in our house for over 10 years and our pool cage needed to be redone the screens were falling out it was just a mess i heard about true aluminum services through a google search it was the first company that came up and they had really great reviews so we went with them and we couldn't have been happier our experience with true aluminum was awesome we called up for an estimate and jeff came out did the estimate and we found it to be the best price that we went with it here the manager came out and started out the job well our original plan was to have the whole cage ripped out but they came out and did an estimate and said that the bones were actually really good in our cage so instead of ripping the whole thing out we were able to keep our cage and they just did a rehab which means they replaced the screens they replaced the spline they replaced all of the hardware all of the hurricane clips and put a new kick plate around the outside so it saved us a lot of money and it looks great my favorite part of the job is really all of it we had screens falling out so we had bugs inside spider webs we had leaves falling in our pool and now with all the screens being redone we don't have any bugs we don't have leaves in our pool it's super clean and i absolutely love it another one of my favorite parts about it is the kick plate my husband used to go around with the weed whacker and he would cut the screens over and over and we'd have to try to replace them ourselves but now we have this awesome kick plate but it doesn't matter if he runs into it because it's metal on the bottom would i recommend true to my friends and family absolutely it was an awesome experience from beginning to end and we're so happy with the job you
Nicole Green's Pool Cage Rehab in Plant City, FL
After more than 10 years in her Plant City home, Nicole's old pool cage was a mess. Instead of a full replacement, True Aluminum saved the structure and rehabilitated the entire cage.
Read the transcript
so instead of ripping the whole thing out we were able to keep our cage and they just did a rehab we needed true aluminum services because we've lived in our house for over 10 years and our pool cage needed to be redone the screens were falling out it was just a mess i heard about true aluminum services through a google search it was the first company that came up and they had really great reviews so we went with them and we couldn't have been happier our experience with true aluminum was awesome we called up for an estimate and jeff came out did the estimate and we found it to be the best price that we went with it here the manager came out and started out the job well our original plan was to have the whole cage ripped out but they came out and did an estimate and said that the bones were actually really good in our cage so instead of ripping the whole thing out we were able to keep our cage and they just did a rehab which means they replaced the screens they replaced the spline they replaced all of the hardware all of the hurricane clips and put a new kick plate around the outside so it saved us a lot of money and it looks great my favorite part of the job is really all of it we had screens falling out so we had bugs inside spider webs we had leaves falling in our pool and now with all the screens being redone we don't have any bugs we don't have leaves in our pool it's super clean and i absolutely love it another one of my favorite parts about it is the kick plate my husband used to go around with the weed whacker and he would cut the screens over and over and we'd have to try to replace them ourselves but now we have this awesome kick plate but it doesn't matter if he runs into it because it's metal on the bottom would i recommend true to my friends and family absolutely it was an awesome experience from beginning to end and we're so happy with the job you
Nicole's Pool Cage Rehab: Saving the Structure Instead of Replacing It
After more than 10 years in her Plant City home, Nicole's cage was failing: "the screens were falling out, it was just a mess." She found True Aluminum through a Google search, Jeff came out and did the estimate, and it was the best price of the ones she gathered. Then came the honest part: the plan had been to rip the whole cage out, but the estimate found the bones were actually really good. "Instead of ripping the whole thing out, we were able to keep our cage."
The rehab replaced the screens, the spline, all of the hardware, all of the hurricane clips, and added a new kick plate around the outside. Her verdict: "It saved us a lot of money and it looks great." And the detail she loves most: her husband used to cut the screens with the weed whacker over and over; now the metal kick plate takes those hits instead.
Rescreen, rehab, or replace: the honest rules of thumb
Aluminum structures usually outlive their soft parts. Screen and fasteners fail first; the frame fails last. That order is your decision tree.
- Torn or sagging panels on a sound frame - rescreen, the cheapest reset
- Rusted screws, loose spline, tired hardware, dingy frame - full rehab like this one: new screen, spline, stainless fasteners, clips, pressure wash, kick plate
- Posts corroded through at the base, storm-bent members, or a structure that fails today's engineering - replacement is the honest answer
- Ask the estimator to check the "bones" first; a company willing to rehab instead of replace just saved you the biggest line item
Why the kick plate is the upgrade owners feel every week
The bottom foot of a screen wall lives a hard life: string trimmers, mower discharge, shoes, dogs, and chair legs all land there, which is why the lowest panels always die first. A kick plate replaces that strip of screen with solid aluminum. It reads as a design detail, but it is really armor - the difference between re-spline visits every season and a wall that shrugs off the weed whacker, exactly as Nicole describes on camera.
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