HOw much would you pay for...

[Flasch186]

I have an existing 12 x 20 covered Cathedral ceiling porch that is already screened in...

to replace the screens with the:

EZE-Breeze Sliding Panels from PGTindustries.com

Someone offered to do it for ~$3500 but I cant find any other references. Ill call in quotes next week but its a Saturday night and am curious now.

Well, what do you think?

[Eaglesfan27]

Does the 3500 include the materials?

[Flasch186]

Does the 3500 include the materials?

I thought so.

[Swaggs]

Do they have to take the window casing off to change them out?

How wide is the side that is adjacent to your house (and presumably will not need a screen)?

If they are providing the materials, installing, and removing all the debris -- my initial thought is that $3500 would be on the high end of reasonable. I'm not familiar with the product, but it sounds like something that is franchised, so you might not have a whole lot of options (just a guess) for installers.

[Flasch186]

The EZE-Breeze movable vinyl window fits in the hole of the Screened enclosure frame. So there is no window casing there now.

The side widest to the home is the 20' side.

[sterlingice]

(I swear- I rarely know what the hell Flasch is talking about. I live on a planet where I go to the store and then do some research online and then go "hm... this sounds like a good deal on product X" but "product X" is never a particular name hand-made, brand-name ceiling fan or sectional set imported from Denmark or "covered Cathedral ceiling porch" with "EZE-Breeze Sliding Panels from PGTindustries.com". Please tell me I'm not the only one, right? Please?!? Or is there like some mythical store where all this exists that I just don't know about?)

SI

[Mustang]

I was fully prepared to give the answer for sex coming into this thread.

[Shkspr]

Working trough this intuitively...

It sounds as though you're looking at about eleven 4' panels for this job. It shouldn't take more than a day for two guys or half a day for three guys to install if you're not having to custom fabricate. Figure no more than 16 manhours of labor tops, at an upper end of $50 an hour. This isn't the kind of thing you need a master craftsman for. So with $800 labor in the project, it comes down to the cost of the screens per unit. So if they're $300, you're getting a "good" deal. If they're $250, it's an "okay" deal, and if it's $200, you're getting gouged a bit.

A quick Google, unfortunately, didn't turn up pricing information. You might need to head to a local dealer that carries them and check. Either that or see if he'll give an intemized estimate to let you know how much he's charging for materials and for labor. It may be that he's charging for dumpster and removal in that price; I dunno.

One thing that's not clear from your first post is, are you WANTING to spend that kind of cash on your porch? Is it in disrepair, or is this a product to which you've been looking at upgrading? I'm looking at the brochure and it seems like it's the sort of upgrade I'd pay two grand for, not four grand. YMMV...

[Dutch]

(I swear- I rarely know what the hell Flasch is talking about. I live on a planet where I go to the store and then do some research online and then go "hm... this sounds like a good deal on product X" but "product X" is never a particular name hand-made, brand-name ceiling fan or sectional set imported from Denmark or "covered Cathedral ceiling porch" with "EZE-Breeze Sliding Panels from PGTindustries.com". Please tell me I'm not the only one, right? Please?!? Or is there like some mythical store where all this exists that I just don't know about?)

SI

I've been looking at houses in the Tampa area and noticed a lot of them have screened in patio's. When looking for houses in Louisiana, I don't recall a whole lot of these (if any)...so I'm guessing this is big in Florida compared to other places.

[wade moore]

(I swear- I rarely know what the hell Flasch is talking about. I live on a planet where I go to the store and then do some research online and then go "hm... this sounds like a good deal on product X" but "product X" is never a particular name hand-made, brand-name ceiling fan or sectional set imported from Denmark or "covered Cathedral ceiling porch" with "EZE-Breeze Sliding Panels from PGTindustries.com". Please tell me I'm not the only one, right? Please?!? Or is there like some mythical store where all this exists that I just don't know about?)

SI

It's not just you.