This past summer we completed enclosing our lanai by making it part of our family room. To do this we knocked out the sliding glass doors (made an arched entrance way) raised the lanai floor by 4 inches, and added heat and Ac to the lanai. At the same time we are adding a hexagonal hobby room off of the master bedroom and knocking a window out to add the doorway and also assed a pocket door as an entrance to the former lanai area. We are used LOW-E , insulated "Glass" sliders over glass transom windows which provide a total glass effect on the back of our house.
Our contractor was a former Villages BUilding Supervisor and now a general Contractor. Once you agree on the scope of the project, he brings in an engineer and architect and provides detailed drawings, stress loads etc which are all submitted to the county/ Villages for approval. For teh heavy work he uses all COntractors who he previously worked with in the VIllages and who are now working on VIllages New homes...ie T&D did all of our concrete work, rebar, and cinder block work. ROMAC provide all the windows, Munns did all the heat/ac work etc. He has done alot of work for us previously (Crown moulding, custom entertainment center etc) and did a number of lanai expansions in our neighborhood. What was nice was this is a guy who has no middleman or sales staff to deal with ..its all with him. He was very competitive with many of the contractors mentioned on this board.
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