Expert Aluminum Contractors for Winter Haven, FL

At True Aluminum, we construct custom aluminum structures as well as concrete paver patios for both homes and businesses in Winter Haven.

With 50 lakes and the famous Chain of Lakes, Winter Haven is built for outdoor living, and a pool cage is what lets you enjoy it without fighting the bugs and debris. A well-built aluminum pool enclosure keeps leaves, insects, and the occasional lizard or snake out of the water, adds shade over the deck, cuts evaporation and chemical use, and provides a safety barrier around the pool.

What a pool cage costs comes down to the size and height of the enclosure and the screen you choose, so we measure your yard and quote it directly, engineered to the wind-load rating Polk County requires. For homes near the water, we can add fine no-see-um screen, and for covered outdoor living beyond the pool, a screen room or lanai brings the same protection to a patio or porch.

In short, a Winter Haven pool cage gives you:

A sunroom uses an aluminum frame with windows and doors to create a fully enclosed, comfortable room you can use in any season. Unlike a screen enclosure, it seals out weather completely, so it becomes true living space: a home office, a sitting room with a lake view, or extra square footage for the home. When it is insulated and tied into cooling, a Florida sunroom can even count as livable area.

Florida sun and summer storms wear screen down, and a single falling branch can punch out a panel. Our rescreen and patio screen repair service swaps damaged panels or fully re-screens an existing pool cage, lanai, or porch, usually in one visit, so your enclosure looks and works like new without the cost of a full rebuild.

Everything we build in Winter Haven is engineered for Florida weather. Our enclosures and structures meet the wind-load ratings Polk County code requires, and we install aluminum storm shutters that protect windows and doors when a storm is tracking inland. Combined with a wind-rated pool cage, that is a real layer of protection for your property.

Aluminum construction is all we do. True Aluminum is a licensed aluminum specialty structure contractor, license number SCC131151391, part of the True family of Central Florida companies since the family founding in 2009. We show up on time, keep you updated through the office, protect your property during the work, and clean up completely, which is why we hold a 5.0-star rating across hundreds of verified Google reviews.

After a storm rolls through Polk County, most of the calls we get are about pool cages, and most of those cages do not need replacing. Blown-out panels, a bent kick plate, a section of gutter torn loose or a few pulled anchors are all repairs. We look at three things before we recommend anything: whether the frame is still straight and square, whether the anchors are intact in sound concrete, and how much of the panel area is actually gone.

If the frame passes, you should be paying for panels and hardware, not a rebuild, and we will say so even when the insurance conversation would support more. If the frame is twisted or the anchors have failed, patching it is throwing money at a structure that will fail again in the next storm, and we will show you exactly where and why.

Before we touch anything, photograph the damage from several angles including the anchor points, and keep the photos with your policy number. Adjusters ask for pre-repair documentation, and a homeowner who has it gets a faster answer than one who does not.

Living on or near the Chain of Lakes changes which screen makes sense. Standard 18x14 fiberglass mesh is the default across Florida and it is a reasonable choice inland, but it does not stop no-see-ums, and lakeside evenings are when you actually want to be out on the deck. Tighter 20x20 no-see-um mesh does stop them. The tradeoff is honest and worth knowing before you buy: finer mesh moves less air and slightly softens the view across the water.

Debris is the other lakeside factor. Waterfront lots collect more organic litter on the roof panels, from oak and cypress drop to what the birds leave behind, and that load is what stretches and stains screen early. Roof panels are also the most expensive to replace, so rinsing them and keeping the gutter line clear does more for the life of your enclosure than anything else you can do. Pet-grade mesh on the bottom course is a common upgrade where dogs use the door constantly.

Rescreening is the cheapest way back to a cage that looks new. Published ranges put a full pool cage rescreen at roughly $1,200 to $4,500, or about $25 to $65 per panel, with the low end at bottom panels and the high end at roof panels because of the access and the labor. Smaller porch and patio rescreens are commonly quoted around $2 to $4 per square foot nationally.

New construction is a different conversation. Florida contractors publish new pool cage work at roughly $12 to $25 per square foot, with most complete enclosures totaling $12,000 to $30,000, and screening an existing covered patio at roughly $10 to $24 per square foot. Seamless gutter work runs about $6 to $20 per linear foot installed nationally, or roughly $900 to $3,000 for an average one-story home.

Those are general market ranges for Central Florida, pulled from public cost data and other contractors' published pricing. They are not True Aluminum prices and they are not a quote. Call (863) 804-6021 and we will come measure and give you a real number, and if you want to spread the cost, financing through Wisetack lets you prequalify without a credit hit.

People ask what you can build in Florida without a permit, and for our trade the honest answer is: almost nothing. Screen enclosures, pool cages, carports and sunrooms are structural aluminum assemblies, and structural work is excluded from Florida's 2026 under-$7,500 exemption for small single-family projects. Polk County states plainly that screening any space that needs structural or infill framing requires a permit. Replacing screen in an existing frame is the usual exception, since you are not altering the structure.

Whether your job goes through the City of Winter Haven or the Polk County Building Division depends on whether your address is inside city limits, and we confirm that before quoting. The county Building Division is at (863) 534-6080 if you want to check your parcel yourself. We handle the application, the engineered drawings for your structure and wind exposure, the inspection scheduling and the closeout.

Homeowners get caught out by one statewide rule. When the contract is over $5,000, Florida requires a recorded Notice of Commencement filed with the permit office before the first inspection. It is routine paperwork, but the inspection does not happen without it.

True Aluminum is not based in Winter Haven, whatever some directories say. Our headquarters is at 4000 N Frontage Rd in Plant City, and we run a second office in Lakeland on Badger Road. Winter Haven is covered daily from those two locations, and it has been part of our service area for years.

The same crews work across Polk County, so Auburndale, Bartow, Davenport and Mulberry get the same people and the same standards. If your address sits between two of those and you are not sure who covers it, call and we will tell you in a minute rather than routing you around.

Vetting a contractor before you sign matters more in this trade than most, so make it easy on yourself: check the license, ask who pulls the permit, and look at the crew. Ours is licensed as an aluminum specialty structure contractor, SCC131151391, we pull every permit ourselves, and you can meet the team before you commit to anything.

One licensed crew and one mobilization can cover more than the cage. If we are already on site rescreening, adding seamless gutter to the enclosure or running aluminum fencing along the pool side is a matter of scheduling rather than a second project with a second trip charge. It is usually cheaper than booking the work separately months apart, and it means one company is accountable for how the pieces meet.

That is also the argument for the True Home Membership if you own an older enclosure: an annual check of the frame, fasteners, spline and gutter line catches the failures that turn into storm damage. Screen does not fail suddenly, it fails slowly and then all at once during the first serious wind.