McAllen Elite Windows provides professional window screens & solar screens in McAllen, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Rio Grande Valley. Solar screens give you the highest return per dollar of anything we install in McAllen, because they are exterior mesh that stops sunlight before it ever reaches the glass, which beats every interior treatment for the simple reason that the heat never gets inside in the first place. We build them to your openings in dense shade-cloth mesh, and we rescreen ordinary insect screens on frames that are still square instead of selling you new ones. The physics is worth thirty seconds. Blinds, curtains and interior film all act after solar energy has already passed through the glass and entered the room. Whatever they absorb, they re-radiate into your living space. An exterior screen intercepts that energy outside the building envelope, where the heat it absorbs is carried away by outside air. That is why a solar screen on a west window outperforms a much more expensive interior treatment on the same opening, and why we put it near the top of the list for anybody trying to fix a hot room on a budget. Mesh comes in roughly 80 and 90 percent densities, woven from coated polyester or fiberglass shade cloth. Ninety percent blocks more and shades more. Eighty percent preserves more view. The counterintuitive part is color: a dark charcoal or black mesh gives you noticeably better view-through from inside than a lighter one, because your eye focuses past a dark screen while a light-colored mesh scatters light and reads as a haze. From outside it is the reverse, and the screen looks like a dark panel. We show samples on the actual opening before you commit, because people react strongly to this one in both directions. Frames are built to each opening in mill, bronze, black or white, clipped in or channel mounted depending on the window type. Insect screening is a separate product and a separate conversation. Fiberglass mesh is standard, aluminum holds shape better, pet-resistant mesh survives a dog, and fine no-see-um mesh matters more here than in most markets during mosquito season along the river. Sliding screen doors are their own small trade: rollers, track, corner keys, pull handles and a bent aluminum sill track that needs straightening rather than replacing. When not to buy: do not screen a north-facing window, where there is very little gain to intercept. Do not screen the one window in an already dark room, because you will hate it. And if your existing screen frames are straight, we will rescreen them for a fraction of the cost of new frames, which is a smaller invoice than the one you were expecting and the right thing to do.
With 20+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — soft-coat low-E glass coatings, solar heat gain coefficient and NFRC labeling, double-silver and triple-silver low-E stacks, argon-filled insulated glass units, warm-edge spacer systems, exterior solar screens and shade-cloth mesh — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve McAllen and nearby communities including Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, San Juan.
What We Handle
Everything our window screens & solar screens in McAllen covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of window screens & solar screens work in McAllen, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- solar screens
- window screens
- window screen replacement
- sun screens for windows
- screen repair
- Exterior solar screen mesh in roughly 80 and 90 percent densities, woven from coated polyester or fiberglass shade cloth
- Exterior mounting is the whole advantage, because the energy is intercepted outside the glass instead of after it is already inside
- Frame color and mesh color selection, where darker mesh counterintuitively gives noticeably better view-through from inside
- Custom frames built to each opening in mill, bronze, black and white, with clip-in or channel mounting to suit your window type
- West and southwest elevations screened first, since that is where the afternoon gain and the comfort complaints originate
- Insect screening in fiberglass, aluminum, pet-resistant and fine no-see-um mesh for mosquito season along the river
- Sliding screen doors with new rollers, track, pull handles and corner keys, plus straightening on bent aluminum sill tracks
- Casement screens mounted on the interior side, which is how crank-out windows work and catches people out every time
- Security screens and screen doors with heavier mesh and reinforced frames at ground-floor and rear openings
- Whole-house rescreen packages on existing frames, normally a single-visit job with no glass work involved
- The cheap fix nobody offers: if your frame is still straight, we rescreen it instead of selling you a new one
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our McAllen services.
Materials, equipment and how we do window screens & solar screens
The difference between window screens & solar screens that lasts and window screens & solar screens that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with soft-coat low-E glass coatings, solar heat gain coefficient and NFRC labeling, double-silver and triple-silver low-E stacks, argon-filled insulated glass units, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every McAllen job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 20+ years of window work in the Rio Grande Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do window screens & solar screens outside McAllen
McAllen Elite Windows covers McAllen and the surrounding communities of the Rio Grande Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in Edinburg, TX — Hidalgo County seat, incorporated in 1919, population about 100,200, and still the fastest-growing city in the county
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in Mission, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1910, population about 85,800, spread over roughly 36 square miles of former citrus groves
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in Pharr, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1916, population about 79,700, across roughly 24 square miles running down to the river
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in San Juan, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1917, population about 35,300, over roughly 11 square miles of former irrigated farmland
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in Alamo, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1924, population about 19,500, across roughly 7.5 square miles between the expressway and the river
- Window Screens & Solar Screens in Donna, TX — Hidalgo County, incorporated in 1911, population about 16,800, over roughly 8 square miles of Delta-area farmland
Start on the McAllen Elite Windows homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why McAllen Chooses McAllen Elite Windows
- ✓Over 20 years installing and replacing windows across Hidalgo County and the Rio Grande Valley
- ✓Glass packages specified on solar heat gain coefficient first, because cooling load is the whole ballgame here
- ✓Residential and commercial, from single-story tract homes to storefronts on the North 10th Street corridor
- ✓In-house installers, never subcontractors you have never met
Every window screens & solar screens project in McAllen gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free window screens & solar screens free estimate in McAllen, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.