Protect Your Pool with a Durable, Elegant Enclosure
Pool Screen Enclosure Installation in Dallas and Fort Worth
A pool enclosure is a framed structure built over and around the pool, with screen, glass or solid panels between the frames. What it is made of decides what it does, and those are genuinely different products rather than versions of the same one.
Clear Blue Pools & Backyards builds pool enclosures across Dallas, Fort Worth and the surrounding communities. This page explains what each type actually does, including what it does not do, so you can work out whether you want one before anyone quotes you for it.
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The Four Types, and What Each One Is Actually For
A pool enclosure provides a protective barrier and transforms your pool into a space that can be enjoyed comfortably throughout the year. By creating a controlled environment, it enhances both usability and convenience, no matter the season or weather conditions.
Benefits of pool enclosure installation include:
- Screen enclosure. An aluminum frame with mesh panels. Keeps out leaves, insects and larger debris while leaving the space open to air and light. It does not keep out rain, it does not warm the water, and it does not make the pool swimmable in January. What it does is cut the cleaning.
- Glass enclosure. Solid glazed panels on a frame. This is the one that genuinely changes the season, because it encloses the air above the water. Considerably more expensive, and it turns the pool into a room, with the ventilation and humidity considerations that come with that.
- Retractable enclosure. Glazed or polycarbonate panels on tracks, so the pool is enclosed when you want it and open when you do not. The compromise between the first two, and the most mechanically complex of the four.
- Solid roof structure. A permanent roof over part or all of the pool without walls. Shade and rain cover rather than enclosure. In this market this is by far the most common way people cover an outdoor space, and it usually belongs with a shade structure or a pergola rather than under enclosures.
The four are not price tiers of one product. Someone who wants fewer leaves in the skimmer basket and someone who wants to swim in December want different structures, and being told that clearly is the most useful thing this page can do.
What a Screen Enclosure Does and Does Not Do
Being specific here, because this is where most enclosure copy overpromises.
It does
- Keep leaves, seeds, blown debris and most insects out of the water, which is the main reason people buy one.
- Cut cleaning time and reduce how often the skimmer and filter need attention.
- Provide shade, depending on the mesh specification chosen.
- Keep larger animals out of the pool area.
It does not
- Warm the water or extend the swimming season. Mesh is open to the air. If season extension is the goal, the answer is a pool heater, a glass enclosure, or both.
- Keep rain out.
- Serve as a pool safety barrier. Barrier requirements in Texas are set by the municipality and turn on height, gaps and self-closing self-latching gate hardware. If child safety is the reason you are looking at an enclosure, what you need is a pool fence, and we would rather tell you that than sell you the wrong thing.
- Eliminate maintenance. The screen itself is the maintenance: panels tear, they collect pollen and dust, and in North Texas hail and wind are the things that damage them.
An Enclosure Is Not a Pool Cover
These get confused constantly and they solve different problems.
An enclosure is a structure around the space above the pool. A cover sits on or over the water itself. A cover reduces evaporation and heat loss, keeps debris out of the water when the pool is not in use, and safety covers are rated to hold weight. An enclosure keeps the whole area cleaner and stays up whether you are swimming or not.
If what you want is less evaporation, warmer water overnight or a safety-rated barrier over the water, that is a pool cover rather than an enclosure, and the two are often specified together rather than instead of each other.
Materials and How They Hold Up Here
- Aluminum frame, powder coated. Strong, light and rust resistant, which matters next to a chlorinated pool.
- Screen mesh. Available in different densities, and the trade is real: a finer mesh keeps out smaller insects and lets through less light and air.
- Fixings and anchoring. The frame is anchored to the deck, which means the deck has to be capable of taking it. On an existing pool this is worth checking before design rather than after.
The North Texas condition worth naming is wind and hail rather than salt or humidity. Panels are a consumable in a hail belt, and how easily a single panel can be replaced without dismantling a run is a fair question to ask any installer, including us.
What Our Clients Say
What a Pool Enclosure Costs
Pool enclosures require careful planning, quality materials, and attention to detail. Here’s why homeowners trust us:
- Screen enclosure, sized to a standard residential pool
- Glass enclosure, and this is a substantially different order of cost
- Retractable enclosure
- Deck reinforcement or additional footings where the existing deck cannot carry the frame
- Panel replacement after damage, and worth knowing before you buy rather than after the first storm
Pool Enclosures Across Dallas and Fort Worth
Clear Blue Pools & Backyards works throughout the Dallas and Fort Worth area, including Fort Worth, Dallas, Southlake, Keller, Frisco and Mansfield. The full list is on our service areas page.
Enclosures are less common on residential pools here than they are on the Gulf Coast, so if you are considering one it is worth a conversation about whether it is the right structure for what you want. Often it is a shade structure or a covered outdoor living space that gets used more.
Frequently Asked Questions
An aluminum frame built over and around the pool with mesh panels between the frames. It keeps leaves, seeds and insects out of the water and off the deck while leaving the space open to air and light.
A screen enclosure will not. Mesh is open to the air, so the water temperature is unchanged. A glass or retractable enclosure encloses the air above the pool and does change what is possible, at a considerably higher cost. If season extension is the goal, a heater is usually the cheaper answer and often the better one.
Generally not. Pool barrier requirements in Texas are set by the municipality and turn on height, gaps and self-closing self-latching gate hardware, which a screen enclosure with a sliding door typically does not satisfy. If child safety is the reason you are considering an enclosure, a pool fence is the structure to look at. VERIFY: confirm what standards Clear Blue builds to before expanding this answer.
An enclosure is a structure around the space above the pool and stays up whether you are swimming or not. A cover sits on or over the water, reduces evaporation and heat loss, and safety covers are rated to take weight. They solve different problems and are often specified together.
The frame needs very little. The screen is the part that needs attention: it collects pollen and dust, it can tear, and in this part of Texas hail and high wind are what damage it. Ask any installer how a single damaged panel is replaced, because the answer varies and it matters more than anything else about ownership.
Usually, and the deciding factor is the deck. The frame anchors into it, so the deck has to be capable of carrying the structure and wide enough to take the frame line. That is checked before design rather than during installation.