What pool cage and lanai cleaning costs in Miami

Expect $200 to $600 for a full pool cage wash — that is where the price guides Florida enclosure-washing companies publish keep landing, with size, height, and how far the green has gotten deciding your end of it. The lanai room behind the slider is a separate job, and the one JAS prices: a deep clean starting at $375.

That range is useless until you take it apart, because “pool cage and lanai cleaning” is one phrase hiding three different trades.

One phrase, three jobs

• The cage itself. Mesh, aluminum frame, kickplate — soft-wash work, and the $200–$600 line in the published guides. It belongs to pressure-washing and screen-enclosure companies, not to us.
• The deck under it. Pavers or concrete — the one surface out there that genuinely takes a pressure washer. Usually quoted by the same companies, often bundled with the cage in one visit.
• The room behind the slider. The Florida room or enclosed lanai — baseboards, vents, sills, the slider itself. House-cleaning territory, and the only line JAS publishes a price for.

One thing up front: JAS does not sell the cage wash, so nothing in the next section is our number or our upsell. It is an honest reading of the range the market itself publishes.

What moves you inside the $200–$600

• Size. A low lanai screen is a few dozen panels; a two-story cage over a pool and full deck runs to a couple hundred. Washing is labor per panel — apply, wait, brush, rinse — so the footprint sets the base.
• Height. Waist-height panels go fast. The dome and the second-story runs need ladders or an extension pole and more care around the frame. Height is time, and time is the price.
• Condition. A cage on an annual rhythm nearly rinses clean. One gone green through a whole wet season — roughly May into October, when the mesh barely dries between downpours — needs dwell time and brushing. Condition is the factor you control, because you choose when to call.
• Salt air. Near the water the gray salt film mixes into the green and holds moisture against the mesh. A coastal cage needs washing more often — which changes the yearly math even when the per-visit quote never moves.
• What rides along. Deck, cage gutter, exterior glass, driveway pavers — any of them can join the same visit. A bundled quote reads higher but usually beats three separate call-outs.

One more lever, and a very Miami one: the calendar. The lightest wash is the pre-season wash — April into May, before the winter’s film becomes the summer’s growth. The same cage quoted in October, green after five months of daily downpours, is simply more hours of work. The pre-season visit is also the moment to check the spline and the frame screws before hurricane season opens.

“Two quotes for ‘cleaning the lanai’ never really contradict each other. They are counting different panels, different heights, and different months of green.”

The paperwork can move the price more than the algae

Across much of south Miami-Dade — HOA-run subdivisions with the screened patio off the back — three questions come before any quote: whether the enclosure is yours to maintain or the association’s, whether vendors must be insured with a certificate on file, and whether runoff toward the pool-deck drains is restricted. In a condo the cage can be a limited common element — partly the building’s — and an approved-vendor rule can strike the cheapest bid from your list. None of that is bureaucracy: an uninsured crew leaning a ladder on the frame, or running a pressure washer at close range, turns a $300 wash into a rescreening bill — and that cheap quote ends up the most expensive number on the table.

The $0 option is real

This genuinely is a job a homeowner can do: a garden hose, a pump sprayer, a soft brush, and a morning. The whole technique, panel by panel — the solution, the dwell, the both-sides brush that keeps the mesh alive — is in our guide to cleaning green algae off lanai screens. Two honest limits. If the mesh is brittle and tears under thumb pressure, or the spline has lifted from its channel, no wash at any price fixes it — the next line item is rescreening, a different trade again. And “free” only prices your labor at zero — a two-story cage still wants a ladder, and that part is worth hiring out.

What JAS prices here — and what we don’t

Washing screens is not a service we publish, and this article is not a quiet way of selling one. Our outdoor add-ons are “Patio or balcony cleaning” and “Sliding-door track cleaning” — add-ons you select, priced separately — and the windows add-on covers reachable interior panes and frames. The mesh is in none of the three; that is the same three-add-on boundary our apartment and condo guide spells out.

The half of the job that does carry a published price is the room the cage encloses. A deep clean in Miami is published at “Starting at $375” — “4–6 hour visit · 2-person team”, “42 items verified by photo” — and it is built for what a lanai room collects: baseboards, air vent covers, sills, door and frame edges, the slider. The buying order is the one our Terms publish: “We price before you commit: you request a quote, see it, and then request a time”. On eligible completed visits, your CleanCheck report follows with checklist status and photos.

One more boundary, because this search sometimes hides a worse problem than algae: if what is growing inside the enclosed room is active mold, a cleaning visit is not remediation and we do not describe it as one. Our Terms say we reserve the right to refuse or stop service where conditions are unsafe for our team — such as mold, infestation, biohazards, or abusive behavior.

Quick answers

This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook — including the half of the price that is not ours, because an honest cost breakdown is complete or it is nothing.