Alton Screen Rooms & Shade Structures — Insured

Call (844) 514-1702 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Alton, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.

We also serve Donna, TX and the rest of the Rio Grande Valley. Everything starts at the Edinburg Elite Patio Covers homepage.

Edinburg Elite Patio Covers covers the same range of work in Alton that we do in Edinburg — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• Lattice Patio Covers — Lattice is a shade structure that lets air through, and that is the entire case for it. On an Edinburg lot with a working southeast exposure, an open cover can be more comfortable at midday than a sealed one, because the hot air underneath has somewhere to go instead of stacking up against a pan.
• Wood Patio Covers — Wood is fine over an open patio and it is the wrong shell for a screen room. That is the short version, and it is worth understanding before anyone falls in love with a rendering, because in Valley humidity the difference shows up inside the first year rather than the tenth.
• Pergola Installation — An attached pergola is the cheapest way to define an outdoor room, and in Edinburg it is very often phase one of a screen room. We build it assuming that is where it is heading, because the decisions that make the second phase cheap all get made in the first week of drawing.
• Freestanding Pergolas — Four posts, no attachment to the house, and a footprint you can put wherever the yard allows. Freestanding is the version we build most in the newer parts of Edinburg, and the reason is usually that there is nothing else out there to attach to, to hide under, or to borrow shade from.
• Louvered & Adjustable Pergolas — A roof of rotating aluminum blades. The useful part is not that it opens or closes but that you choose how much of each, and over an Edinburg screen room that dial is worth more than a fixed panel is through most of a year this long and this hot.
• Carports — A lot of our carport work is not for cars. Edinburg fills up with recreational vehicles and boats between October and April, and most of them arrive needing somewhere to sit that is not full sun.

See the full list of Edinburg services, or call (844) 514-1702.

Alton sits in Hidalgo County with a population of roughly 18,198 at the 2020 census, close enough to Edinburg that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Alton municipal complex on Main Street, Alton Memorial Junior High.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Alton properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Hidalgo County, and a patio cover contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.