Lanai and pool deck furniture removal in Orlando

The short answer

Everything on a lanai or pool deck is flat-priced:

A standard tired lanai set — table and four chairs — is $89 + $30 + $30 + $30 + $30 = $209. Add the grill and two loungers and it is $209 + $71 + $93 + $93 = $466, at which point compare against a half truck at $431 and take the lower one. The per-visit minimum is $75.

The screen cage is the whole problem

Almost every pool in this metro sits inside an aluminum screen enclosure, and a large share of houses without pools still have a screened lanai off the back. It is the defining feature of Central Florida residential architecture and the reason this job is not the same as clearing a patio anywhere else.

A pool cage is a light aluminum frame with screen held in by a rubber spline. It is not structural in any useful sense. A dropped table leg goes through a panel. A person leaning on a upright to steady a load bends it. Panels are repairable and rescreening is a normal expense here, but nobody wants to add it to a removal job.

So the crew works to one rule: nothing gets forced against the frame. Items go out through the existing screen door, or through the house, or they come apart first.

Getting it out: the three routes

• Through the screen door. Standard, and it works for chairs, grills, loungers and most tables. Narrower than an interior door, so anything wide turns sideways.
• Through the house. Sliding doors are wide, and floor protection goes down first. Used for anything that cannot make the screen door and cannot be broken down outside.
• Broken down in place. Hot tubs and large frame items get cut into sections on the deck so the pieces fit the door. That is why a spa is a flat $322 rather than a negotiation.

When you book, say whether the lanai has a screen door to the side yard and whether the side gate is wide enough for a person carrying something. Those two facts decide the route.

Why lanai furniture does not last here

A screen cage stops leaves and most insects. It does nothing about the two things that actually destroy outdoor furniture in Florida.

Humidity, year-round. Steel frames rust from the inside of the tube outward, so a chair that looks fine collapses when someone sits on it. Cushion foam holds moisture permanently and mildews in the seams.

UV. Resin wicker goes chalky and brittle, fabric slings fade and then tear at the stitching, and plastic parts crack. Three to five years is a realistic life for mid-range outdoor furniture here, against a decade in a milder climate.

Which is why patio furniture is a year-round removal category in Orlando rather than a spring one.

The rest of what accumulates out there

Pool decks collect things. The typical clear-out includes a pool pump that was replaced two years ago and never removed, a broken automatic cleaner, a collapsed umbrella, foam floats that have gone to pieces, a pot collection, a screen panel roll left over from a repair, and a mini fridge that stopped working.

A mini fridge is $115. A large area rug from a covered lanai is $68. Mixed loose material like floats, pots and broken pieces prices as a pile: a small junk pile is $82, a medium is $129 and a large is $208.

Keep the propane tank off the truck. Tanks are exchanged where you bought them; the grill itself goes at $71.

The outdoor TV

Increasingly common on covered lanais in Dr. Phillips, Hunter's Creek, Winter Springs and the newer Horizon West builds. Unless it was a genuinely outdoor-rated unit, Central Florida humidity gets into the housing and a corner of the panel grays out within a couple of summers.

Priced as any screen: $62 under 42 inches, $68 for 42 to 65 inches, $73 above that. Unbolt the wall bracket before the visit if you can — it is far easier without someone holding the panel.

Timing and the HOA

Two practical notes.

Morning slots. A pool deck in July at 2pm is a radiator, and the afternoon storm will stop the work anyway. First arrival of the day is the right ask between May and September.

Do not stage it out front. In a deed-restricted subdivision — Lake Nona, Horizon West, Winter Garden, Meadow Woods, Hunter's Creek — patio furniture stacked on the driveway while you wait for the crew is exactly the kind of visible-storage violation the weekly drive-through picks up. Leave it on the deck. The crew carries it from there, which is what the price already covers.

Booking it

Take one photo from inside the cage looking at the pile, and one of the screen door and the side gate. Send both. You get a flat price back before anyone drives out, priced at whichever is lower of the item list and the volume rung.

If a hot tub is part of it, say so up front — that is a two-hour job on its own at a flat $322, and it is scheduled differently to a furniture clear.

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