Glass porch enclosures

Your screened porch, out of retirement.

Screens give you four good months. The same porch behind frameless glass works from the first thaw to the first blizzard, and still opens fully in summer.

What a porch conversion involves

Most Minnesota porches were built right: good roof, good floor, good view. The screens are the weak link. We remove them and fit Lumon retractable glass panels into the existing openings, tempered safety glass on powder-coated aluminum tracks, templated to the millimeter for your porch.

There are no vertical frames between panes, so the view stays the view. Panels slide with one finger and fold flat against the wall, which means July feels exactly like it used to. The difference shows up in April and November, when the porch is calm and dry while the yard is neither.

An unheated glass porch is a three-season room, and we will tell you that plainly. What surprises people is how long the third season runs: the glass kills windchill, holds the sun's heat, and turns a 45-degree afternoon into a porch afternoon.