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Serving Tamiami, FL and surrounding areas. (786) 687-0296
Tamiami Lanai Sunrooms & Patios has served Miami homeowners with custom sunrooms, patio enclosures, and screen rooms since 2020. We build to Miami-Dade County wind-load standards on concrete block construction and reply within one business day.
Miami homes vary widely from neighborhood to neighborhood - a 1940s Mediterranean Revival bungalow in Coral Way calls for a completely different sunroom design than a 1970s CBS ranch in Flagami. Our custom sunrooms are drawn and permitted specifically for your home, not adapted from a generic template, so the final structure looks like it belongs there.
Miami gets over 60 inches of rain per year, and most of it falls in heavy bursts from May through October that make open patios useless in an instant. A fully enclosed patio with solid roof panels and either screen or glass walls turns that slab into a room you can actually use during the wet season, which is more than half the year.
Miami mosquitoes and no-see-ums are relentless from spring through fall, and a screen room is the most practical way to reclaim evening hours outside. Miami's flat lots and small backyards mean screen rooms need to be designed carefully so they do not eat into the yard space families use daily - we design to fit, not to fill.
Many Miami homes in neighborhoods like Little Havana and Allapattah were built with tight floor plans that made sense for smaller families decades ago. A sunroom addition off the rear of the house adds climate-controlled living space without the cost of a full rear addition, and it can be done without touching the main roof structure on most CBS homes.
Miami has a large number of older screen enclosures and Florida rooms built in the 1960s through 1980s that no longer meet current hurricane codes and have frames showing serious corrosion from years of salt air exposure. Remodeling an existing enclosure to current standards often costs less than a full tear-down and replacement and gives the structure a much longer service life.
Miami's concrete slab patios are already a strong foundation for a sunroom conversion. Converting an open patio to a full enclosure avoids the cost of a new slab, and it gives homeowners a faster path to a usable room. We assess every existing slab for condition and drainage before we design around it.
Miami is the second-largest city in Florida with about 440,000 residents, and the vast majority of its single-family homes are built with concrete block and stucco - a construction type that holds up well in hurricanes but requires specific techniques when you are attaching a sunroom or enclosure to the exterior wall. The Miami hurricane season runs June through November, and Miami-Dade County enforces some of the strictest wind-load building codes in the country after learning hard lessons from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Irma in 2017. Every enclosed structure we build here is engineered to those standards, with calculations and drawings on file, not built to a generic spec.
Salt air is a factor that affects more Miami homes than most homeowners realize. If your house is within a few miles of Biscayne Bay or the Atlantic coast, the aluminum frames on any outdoor structure you add are exposed to corrosive salt air daily. Lower-grade materials begin to show surface oxidation within a few years and structural deterioration within a decade. We specify marine-grade aluminum and stainless steel fasteners on all Miami projects, and we use sealants rated for continuous salt-air exposure. For permitting, the Miami-Dade County Building Department oversees building code compliance across unincorporated areas, while the City of Miami Building Department handles incorporated city addresses.
Our crew works throughout Miami regularly, and the thing that stands out most about this city is how much the job changes from block to block. In older neighborhoods like Flagami and Coral Way, we are working on 1950s and 1960s CBS homes with small lots, low rear clearances, and existing concrete slabs that need evaluation before we build on them. In neighborhoods closer to the urban core, small yards and tight setbacks make every design a custom fit. We have learned to measure twice and plan for limited staging space on nearly every Miami residential job.
Miami is bisected by Calle Ocho - SW 8th Street - which is the cultural center of Little Havana and a road most Miami homeowners use as a landmark when describing their neighborhood. We work on both sides of Calle Ocho and throughout the residential streets that run north toward the Tamiami Trail and south toward Coral Way. Many of the homes in these areas have rear patios facing west, which means afternoon sun from May through September is a major comfort factor we design around with roof overhangs and proper glass selection.
We also serve homeowners in neighboring Coral Gables to the south, and in Westchester to the west. We reply to all new inquiries within one business day.
Call or use our contact form to tell us what you have in mind. We reply within one business day and schedule a free on-site visit at your Miami home - no charge, no commitment.
We visit your home, measure the space, evaluate the existing slab and exterior wall, and discuss what the project will involve. You receive a detailed written estimate that covers materials, labor, permitting fees, and the expected timeline before we proceed.
We prepare and submit the permit application to the appropriate Miami building authority, including engineered drawings if required. Materials are ordered once the permit is approved so there are no delays when the crew arrives.
Our crew completes the work according to the approved drawings and schedules all required city inspections. You receive a copy of the closed permit and a walk-through before we leave the job.
We serve homeowners throughout Miami - from Little Havana to Flagami to Coral Way. No pressure, no obligation, just a straight answer about what your project will cost and how long it will take.
(786) 687-0296Miami is Florida's second-largest city, home to about 440,000 residents within city limits and more than six million in the broader metro area. The city is made up of dozens of distinct neighborhoods with very different characters. Coconut Grove has older tree-lined streets and historic homes. Little Havana and Flagami are dense residential areas with smaller concrete block homes built in the 1950s through 1970s. Coral Way connects the two with a tree-canopied boulevard lined with Mediterranean Revival homes dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. Each area calls for a different approach when it comes to exterior home improvement, and contractors who treat all of Miami the same will get the details wrong. You can learn more about the city through the City of Miami official website.
The city sits at low elevation near Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic coast, which means salt air, heavy rain, and annual hurricane threats are simply part of life here. Most single-family homeownership is concentrated in the outer residential neighborhoods - Westchester, Kendall, parts of Hialeah - rather than in the urban core, where condos dominate. Homeowners in these neighborhoods tend to be long-term residents with a strong interest in maintaining and improving their properties. Our service area also includes neighboring South Miami and Kendall to the south and southwest.
Call us today or send a message online. We serve homeowners throughout Miami and reply within one business day - before the next rainy season gives your open patio another beating.