Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers provides professional outdoor kitchens & living spaces in Fort Myers, FL for residential and commercial properties across Southwest Florida. Out here the outdoor kitchen almost always goes under an existing lanai roof or inside the pool cage, which makes it a retrofit into a structure never designed to hold it. That single constraint shapes every decision after it.
A grill under a solid lanai roof needs a vent hood and the clearance its manufacturer calls for, and there is no way round that which ends well. Under a screen roof the smoke leaves on its own, but the heat still finds the aluminum above it. We place the cook zone off the beam line and away from mesh before anything gets built.
Stainless is not one material. The standard grade streaks and pits within sight of the water, so on Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel and Captiva we specify the marine grade for doors, drawers and fasteners and still expect a rinse. Inland at Gateway or Alva the standard grade behaves itself. Marine polymer cabinetry outlasts both and ignores the humidity entirely.
Three trades and a permit sit behind the pretty part. Gas line, dedicated circuits with the right protection, and a water supply with a drain going somewhere legal rather than onto the pool deck. Sequencing them is most of the work on these jobs, and doing it while the lanai roof is open costs a fraction of doing it afterwards.
If the house empties out in June, the kitchen needs closing down properly. Water lines drained so nothing sits stagnant in a hot lanai, gas isolated, the fridge emptied and propped open, anything soft brought indoors. Left running all summer with nobody home, the ice maker and the sink trap are what greet you in November.
Most of these get over-specified. A good grill, a run of counter you can genuinely work on, a sink and a fridge cover what people use, while the pizza oven at the far end tends to end up as storage. We would rather build a shorter run to a better standard and put the difference into the roof over it.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — powder-coated extruded aluminum framing, 20x20 no-see-um screen mesh, 18x14 standard insect screening, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, engineered footings and anchor embedment, hurricane uplift straps and tie-down connections — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Fort Myers and nearby communities including Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers, Bonita Springs.
What We Handle
Everything our outdoor kitchens & living spaces in Fort Myers covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of outdoor kitchens & living spaces work in Fort Myers, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- outdoor kitchen
- built in grill station
- outdoor kitchen contractor
- covered outdoor kitchen
- outdoor bar counter
- summer kitchen
- outdoor kitchen cost
- stainless outdoor cabinets
- lanai outdoor kitchen
- grill island build
- outdoor living space
- patio kitchen installation
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Fort Myers services.
Materials, equipment and how we do outdoor kitchens & living spaces
The difference between outdoor kitchens & living spaces that lasts and outdoor kitchens & living spaces that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with powder-coated extruded aluminum framing, 20x20 no-see-um screen mesh, 18x14 standard insect screening, screw-chase and snap-cover extrusions, 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 Fort Myers 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. 15+ years of patio cover work in Southwest Florida 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 outdoor kitchens & living spaces outside Fort Myers
Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers covers Fort Myers and the surrounding communities of Southwest Florida. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in Cape Coral, FL — Lee County, incorporated in 1970, population 194,016 at the 2020 census
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in Lehigh Acres, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated census-designated place, population 114,287 at the 2020 census
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in North Fort Myers, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated community across the river, population 42,719 at the 2020 census
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in Bonita Springs, FL — Lee County, reincorporated as a city in 1999, population 53,644 at the 2020 census
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in Estero, FL — Lee County, incorporated as a village in 2014, population 36,939 at the 2020 census
- Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces in San Carlos Park, FL — Lee County, an unincorporated census-designated place south of the city, population 18,563 at the 2020 census
Start on the Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Fort Myers Chooses Fort Myers Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Over 15 years screening lanais and pool cages across Lee County
- ✓Engineered footings, anchor schedules and uplift connections — not kit hardware
- ✓20x20 no-see-um mesh where the canals and mangroves demand it, standard mesh where they do not
- ✓We pull the Lee County permit and supply the engineering plan review asks for
The standards behind outdoor kitchens & living spaces
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The outdoor kitchens & living spaces work we do in Fort Myers follows published industry standards: International Code Council writes the IRC provisions that govern attached covers and their footings, and FGIA sets the wind-load performance standards for glazed and framed products. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every outdoor kitchens & living spaces project in Fort Myers 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 outdoor kitchens & living spaces free estimate in Fort Myers, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.