Weeknights, not just parties
Most owners keep a softer evening level for dinner on the deck, then raise brightness when someone is actually in the water. The cage stops being a black box after sunset.
Stop hanging string lights on a Florida screen enclosure. We install permanent lights on the large aluminum beams of your pool cage or lanai — hidden cable, and a clean look that still looks finished at noon.
Cable hides in the extrusion or on top of the beam. No zip-tie jungle over the pool.
Installed once. No December ladder, no sagging cords after a thunderstorm.
One permanent system instead of buying throwaway strings every season.
Wet-location pucks, stainless fasteners, and low-voltage on the cage near water.
A grid of small LED pucks on the underside of the large rafters, ridge, and hips — not Christmas lights clipped to the screen.
Style A — large rafters lighted at 8 inches on center. Smaller cross beams stay dark so the grid stays clean.
Same field rules on a Tierra Verde cage, a Largo lanai, or a Palm Harbor screen enclosure.
Color on request — still mounted to the large beams only
Warm white option — even spacing, no lights on the small cross beams
IP66 or better LED pucks, about an inch across, aimed straight down. Default color is saturated blue. Warm white or another color only if you ask for it.
Lights go on the main rafters, ridge, and hips — the fat structural members. Smaller cross beams and purlins stay dark so the night grid does not turn into visual noise.
Even rhythm along each lighted beam, with a 4-inch inset from each end. That spacing is what makes the pool reflection look architectural instead of random.
12V or 24V Class 2 on the cage. Trunk runs on top of the beam or inside the extrusion. Home-runs drop inside posts — not across the screen.
18-8 or 316 stainless fasteners and sealed penetrations. No galvanized screws, no adhesive-only mounts, no indoor cabinet pucks outdoors.
Listed Class 2 driver on a GFCI-protected 120V circuit, mounted on the house wall or equipment pad — not on the deck and not over the pool.
Gulf humidity and early dark in winter make a dark enclosure feel unused. Permanent pucks turn the same structure into an evening room.
Most owners keep a softer evening level for dinner on the deck, then raise brightness when someone is actually in the water. The cage stops being a black box after sunset.
String lights sag, bleach, and pull spline. A fastened puck stays on the beam through summer storms and January cold snaps. You are not on a ladder in December.
A tight screen job still looks incomplete at night if the only light is one porch bulb. Even puck lines on the large beams read like landscape lighting, not holiday décor.
Associations in Shore Acres, Snell Isle, East Lake, and similar neighborhoods usually object to clip-ons and dangling cord. A small puck tight to the beam is easier to live with at noon.
Salt air off the Gulf, bay humidity, and afternoon lightning are the design conditions — not a showroom.
Wet-location housings and stainless hardware belong on cages from St. Pete Beach to Tarpon Springs. Tape-on strip and indoor pucks fail in one Pinellas summer.
Mechanical fasteners beat clips. UV-rated outdoor cable stays hidden so sun does not cook a visible jacket hanging over the water.
Line-voltage stays off the cage. Low-voltage pucks on a listed Class 2 supply follow the closer-proximity path that licensed electricians use around water. We flag every beam that passes over the pool and confirm the plan with the electrician and the local AHJ. Permit rules differ by city in Pinellas County; we do not guess them on a webpage.
We already work on Pinellas aluminum cages every week. Lighting uses the same crew habits: protect the deck, hide the mess, leave the lanai usable.
You send photos or we walk the enclosure. We count the large beams, pick Style A (every large rafter) or Style B (gable outline), and locate a legal driver spot off the water.
Pucks fasten to the underside of the large beams at 8-inch centers. Cable is hidden. A licensed electrician handles the 120V feed and GFCI. Most cages finish in one or two days once scheduled.
We check spacing, color, and voltage at the last puck. You keep spare pucks from the same batch and the breaker labeled for the cage lights.
Rescreen first if the mesh is tired — then the puck grid reads sharp at night
Lights show every loose spline, rusty screw, and brittle panel. If the cage is due for a rescreen, we would rather put new mesh and new lights on the same schedule than light a tired enclosure and come back six months later.
Rescreening 4 Less is a local family business that has been working on Tampa Bay pool cages, lanais, and screen enclosures for 14+ years. Lighting is a natural next trade on the same aluminum we already repair.
Licensed and insured. Clean crews. Transparent pricing after we see the structure — not a bait number for a cage we have not measured.
Call (727) 768-5850We install the same spec from the beaches to East Lake. Coastal cages get the wet-location and stainless package because salt air is not optional here.
Straight answers before you climb a ladder one more season.
You will see a small puck on the underside of each lighted large beam. You should not see a web of cord, clips, or tape. Cross beams stay clean on purpose.
Yes, when you raise the level. Most households keep a lower living setting for conversation and bump brightness when someone is in the pool. These are wash lights for the deck and water surface, not underwater pool lamps.
Default is saturated blue on every puck. That is the look most Pinellas cages photograph well against dusk sky and water. We install warm white or another color when you ask for it. Color-changing systems are available; they should not run neon every Tuesday.
Low-voltage decorative lighting on an existing enclosure is often simpler than new 120-volt work near a pool, but St. Petersburg, Clearwater, unincorporated Pinellas, and the beach cities do not all treat it the same. We handle the electrical correctly and tell you if your city or HOA needs extra paperwork. We do not invent permit rules on this page.
A wet-location puck with stainless fasteners and sealed holes is built for this coast. Indoor-rated tape, plastic clips, and speaker wire are not. That is why coastal cages from Tierra Verde to Tarpon get the same hardware spec.
Yes on systems we spec with a controller — on/off, dimming, schedules, and color if you ordered it. A simple on/off or timer is enough for owners who just want dusk-to-late-evening blue.
It depends on how many large beams we light and how far the driver sits from the cage. You get a number after we measure — not a website teaser that ignores a two-story roof or a long run over water.
Most homes finish in one or two days after the job is scheduled. Size, beam count, and where the 120-volt feed lives set the clock.
If screens are brittle, spline is crawling out, or fasteners are rusted, yes. New mesh makes the night grid look sharp, and we can bundle the rescreen and the lights so your lanai is only disrupted once.
Free on-site estimate for puck lighting, or for lights bundled with a rescreen. Less mess. Less headache. Less cost. Less worry.
Call (727) 768-5850