Hollywood Patio Covers, Pool Cages & Screen Enclosures Engineered for the HVHZ
Two Florida counties sit in the high-velocity hurricane zone. Yours is one of them, and it decides everything we put on your slab.
- Sealed Engineering On Every Permit
- HVHZ Product Approvals Verified
- Free On-Site Measure
- Se Habla Español
Our Patio Cover Services in Hollywood, FL
Screened Porches
A screened porch in Hollywood is a permitted structure, not a weekend project. The moment aluminum touches the house, the city wants drawings prepared by a Florida registered architect or engineer, and that seal is the real starting cost.
Patio Enclosures
Most enclosure jobs in Hollywood start with a roof that already exists. There is a slab, a solid cover over it, and the owner wants walls.
Sunroom Enclosures
Read this before you buy a sunroom in Hollywood, because we talk more people out of this product than into it. The vinyl-panel room being sold as hurricane-ready is not, and the code says so on a sticker.
Retractable Screen Systems
This is the cheapest good answer on the whole site, and we say that as people who sell the expensive ones. A retractable screen is not a structure.
Rescreening & Screen Repair
We lose money on this page and we write it anyway. The City of Hollywood states plainly that repair of screen fabric alone requires no permit, and only metal repair or replacement does.
Pool Cages & Pool Screen Enclosures
The survey matters more than the aluminum on a pool cage. Setbacks, easements and the pool barrier line all have to work before an engineer draws anything, which is why Broward wants a Registered Land Surveyor's Certificate bound into each plan set.
Screen Doors & Hardware
Screen doors are the part of your enclosure that gets used ten thousand times, and the part almost every quote treats as an afterthought. On a pool cage the door is also a code-regulated safety component, which changes the specification entirely.
Insulated Patio Covers
Insulated panel is the upgrade that actually changes how a Hollywood patio feels. A foam-core panel puts real thermal mass between you and a July sun that pushes surface temperatures on bare pan roofing far past anything comfortable underneath.
Aluminum Patio Covers
Aluminum is not a preference in the HVHZ so much as the only sane structural answer. It forms an oxide skin and stops corroding, which is why the structures still standing after forty years on this coast are almost all aluminum ones.
Alumawood & Composite Covers
Ask one question before you sign anything for a wood-look composite cover in Hollywood: does this exact system hold a Florida Product Approval that lists it for high-velocity hurricane zone use? Get the number.
Lattice Patio Covers
Lattice is the honest middle option, and in this climate it beats a solid roof more often than people expect. Open framing lets heat escape upward instead of trapping it under a pan roof, and it lets the afternoon sea breeze through.
Wood Patio Covers
This is the one page on our site where the right answer is usually a different contractor. Wood framing sits outside a structural aluminum and screen enclosure specialty license, and we will not pretend otherwise to keep a job on our board.
Pergola Installation
An attached pergola in Hollywood is engineered like anything else that bolts to your house. Open rafters catch less wind than a solid roof, but the connection at the wall still has to be drawn, sealed and inspected the same way.
Freestanding Pergolas
Freestanding gets chosen for the wrong reason and it is still usually right. People think detaching from the house means less engineering.
Louvered Pergolas
A louvered roof solves something specific about Hollywood weather that no fixed structure does. It rains here almost every afternoon from June through September, then clears within the hour.
Carports
The word carport covers two completely different things, and only one of them is legal to install here. A permitted, engineered aluminum structure with sealed drawings, and a bolt-together kit off the internet that has no HVHZ approval at all.
Gazebos & Pavilions
A gazebo is the structure people most often try to install without a permit, and the one where that decision comes back hardest. It is freestanding, it looks like furniture, and the code does not care about either of those things.
Outdoor Kitchens
Outdoor kitchens are the one job on this site where the structure gets designed around appliances instead of the other way round. Grill placement, clearances and ventilation have to be settled before an engineer draws a single beam over the top.
Patio Lighting & Fans
Air movement is not a comfort upgrade in south Florida, it is what makes an outdoor room usable. A good ceiling fan under a cover drops perceived temperature enough to turn a space nobody sat in into the one everyone uses.
Hollywood Elite Patio Covers builds screen enclosures, pool cages, aluminum covers, pergolas and carports across Hollywood, FL and the wider coastal corridor. The high-velocity hurricane zone in the Florida Building Code covers exactly two counties, and you are standing in one of them. That one line reaches into your framing, your fasteners, your panel choice and how long your permit sits in review.
What you are really buying is a drawing. Chapter 20 governs aluminum in the HVHZ, and it will not accept an extrusion wall under 0.040 inch, wants pressures pulled from Table 2002.4 in two directions, and adds a 300-pound point load on any single foot of any primary member. Broward asks for two sealed plan sets with a surveyor's certificate in each.
So we quote from that package instead of a brochure. A system with no Florida Product Approval listing it for HVHZ use does not go on your slab, whatever the price looks like. And if your frame is sound and only the mesh has gone, the city's own rule says fabric repair needs no permit at all, so that is what we will tell you.
What Hollywood Customers Say
Two other companies quoted a full cage replacement. These guys looked at the frame, said the extrusions and anchors were fine, and re-screened it for a fraction. Told me flat out I did not need a permit for fabric only. Honest people are hard to find in this business.
The quote listed the actual product approval number for the roof panel, which no one else did. Engineer sealed the plans, survey went in with them, permit came back clean. Inspector was in and out in ten minutes. That is what you are paying for.
I wanted the vinyl panel sunroom until they explained the decal rule and asked whether I really wanted to take panels down every storm. Ended up with a screen room and spent the difference on lighting and fans. Better call than the one I walked in with.
Old carport was leaning and the posts were sitting on nothing. They pulled the survey, found the easement problem before drawings, and moved the whole thing two feet. Would have failed zoning otherwise. Slab work and framing both passed first time.
Why Hollywood Chooses Hollywood Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Our quotes name the approval number the structure is being built under
- ✓Framing sized from Table 2002.4 pressures, not from a supplier span chart
- ✓Every primary member checked for the 300-pound point load the code adds
- ✓Survey, zoning and sealed plan sets assembled before you are asked to sign
- ✓We re-screen sound frames rather than quote the rebuild you did not need
- ✓We say plainly when a job belongs to a building contractor and not to us
About Hollywood Elite Patio Covers in Hollywood, FL
Hollywood Elite Patio Covers builds and repairs aluminum patio structures in Hollywood and along the Broward and Miami-Dade coast. Screen enclosures, pool cages, solid and insulated covers, pergolas, carports and the commercial work that goes with them. We hold a Florida structural aluminum and screen enclosure specialty license, which is a narrower thing than a building license and we are straight with people about where its edges are.
Working inside the high-velocity hurricane zone shapes how we quote. Everything gets a site-specific sealed plan, pressures from Table 2002.4 rather than a supplier chart, product approvals that actually name the HVHZ, and anchors with a documented embedment depth. The paperwork is not overhead here. It is the product, and a structure without it is unpermittable no matter how good the aluminum looks.
There are jobs we turn down. If your frame is sound and the mesh has failed, the city says fabric repair needs no permit, so hire a screen crew and keep your money. If you want conditioned space in August, an open cover is the wrong answer and we will point you at a glazed addition instead.
And wood framing, load-bearing alterations and roof structure changes sit outside our license, so those go to a building contractor and we say so early rather than late.
How It Works
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Measure and survey check
We measure the slab, look for real structure at the roof edge, and ask for your survey. Setbacks, easements and the pool barrier line get resolved on paper first, because Broward wants a Registered Land Surveyor's Certificate bound into each plan set and a structure drawn over an easement dies at zoning.
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Engineering and product approval
A Florida engineer seals a site-specific plan for your address, your exposure category and your roof height. We pull approval paperwork for every component, whether that is a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance or a statewide Florida Product Approval, and confirm HVHZ use is listed on it. Those numbers go on your quote, not just in the file.
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Permit and zoning
Zoning reviews first, then the building side. Hollywood takes applications through its online portal at 2600 Hollywood Boulevard. Review takes as long as the queue takes, and we would rather tell you three weeks and be right than tell you five days and start dodging your calls.
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Build and inspections
Footings and anchors are inspected before anything is covered up, then framing, then final. We hand over the approval numbers, the sealed drawings and the closed permit. Keep that folder. It is what an insurer or a buyer's inspector asks for, and reconstructing it later is miserable.
Commercial Screen and Shade Work Across the Corridor
Commercial work on this stretch is mostly condominium pool decks, restaurant patios along the beach and the boulevard, hotel courtyards, and school and daycare shade structures. All of it lands in the same place: a sealed plan set, verified product approvals and an inspection trail somebody has to hand a board or a district afterward.
Association work carries an extra layer, because a pool cage on common property usually needs the board's written approval before the permit will move, and we would rather see that in hand than discover it at inspection.
We phase around service hours, keep the deck usable where we can, and write the scope per building so a manager can put it out to bid without rewriting it.
- ✓Condominium and HOA pool cage replacement with per-building scopes
- ✓Restaurant and bar patio covers permitted for occupancy load
- ✓Hotel courtyard and pool deck screen enclosures phased around guests
- ✓School, daycare and municipal park shade structures
- ✓Storm damage assessment with photographs and remaining-life opinions
- ✓Approval numbers and closed permits handed over as a document set
Service Areas
Hollywood Elite Patio Covers serves Hollywood, FL and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across the Broward–Miami-Dade coastal corridor
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a screen enclosure in Hollywood need a building permit?
Yes, and the city is unusually clear about where the line falls. Replacing screen fabric alone needs no permit. Any metal repair or replacement does. Enclosing a patio that already has a roof over it is treated as an addition and requires drawings prepared by a Florida registered architect or engineer. So the question is never really whether you need a permit, it is whether anyone is touching aluminum.
Why does my patio structure need an engineer when my neighbor's fence did not?
Because aluminum in the high-velocity hurricane zone falls under Chapter 20 of the code, and Broward County requires two complete plan sets signed and sealed by a Florida registered architect or engineer for screen enclosures. Each set also has to carry a Registered Land Surveyor's Certificate. This is not a local upsell. It is the submittal standard the county publishes.
What wind speed is my pool cage actually designed for?
Screen enclosures are designed as Risk Category I structures, and in Broward that ultimate design wind speed is 156 mph. Your house is Risk Category II at 170 mph. The cage is deliberately the weaker element. Screen is meant to release before framing bends, which is why an enclosure that lost mesh in a storm and kept its posts did exactly what it was drawn to do.
Can I keep the vinyl panels up during hurricane season?
No, and the code makes that explicit rather than leaving it to judgment. Removable vinyl, acrylic and tempered glass panels have to carry a decal stating the panel shall be removed when wind speeds exceed 75 mph. If taking panels down twice a year sounds unworkable, you do not want a panel system. You want a glazed room, which is a different permit and a different price.
How much does a pool cage cost in Hollywood?
Wide honest range, because span drives it more than square footage. A modest mansard cage over a small pool runs well under a large gable structure with long clear spans, and the engineering premium here is real. Budget separately for the survey, the sealed plans and the permit fee. Anyone quoting you a per-square-foot number over the phone has not seen your slab or your survey.
Does salt air destroy aluminum patio structures here?
Aluminum itself holds up remarkably well. It forms an oxide skin and stops. What fails on this coast is everything holding it together: plated screws, hinges, closers, and the joint where aluminum meets a dissimilar metal. Inside the first few blocks of the ocean that hardware goes stainless with isolation at the contact. Three miles west it is money you do not need to spend.