Gazebo Screen & Clear Vinyl in Brossard

Gazebos in Brossard

We are based in Brossard, and the city can be read in its backyards as much as in its lettered sectors. In the bungalow and split-level neighbourhoods built between 1960 and 1985, the yard is deep enough for a good-sized retail gazebo, set on a wooden deck or on patio stones, with standard screen panels and clear vinyl (MICA film) panes. When a gazebo there was bought along with the pool or the hot tub, it has aged with them: yellowed film, fibreglass mesh gone slack, an aluminum frame that is still perfectly true. The frame is the part worth keeping; the panels are the part to redo.

Around Quartier DIX30 and the REM stations, the picture changes. The newer townhouses have narrow yards boxed in by the neighbours’ fences, and the gazebo that fits there is a small retail model in the most common sizes on the market. Those yards are exposed: wind funnels between the buildings and works the film on one side more than the other. In the condos, the gazebo is more often a pergola or a small gazebo on a terrace, whose panels have to travel through the unit or down the common stairwell to come and go. Each of those places asks a different question before the first panel comes down.

Screens and vinyl: what gives out in Brossard

On the retail gazebos of the older sectors, the first piece to fail is the film, and the second is the mesh on the lowest panel — the one kids and pets lean against. Film is replaced pane by pane, cut to exact size, in the original frame; the screen is redone in its frame with new spline, because spline that has sat through several winters has lost its give and will pop out at the first bit of tension. On the small townhouse gazebos, panels come in common sizes and go quickly, but the lighter frame deserves a look: a corner opened up by the wind gets closed before anything is tensioned.

Structure and access in Brossard

A retail gazebo comes apart panel by panel from the yard, and on a bungalow or split-level the yard is reached along the side of the house or through the lower-level patio door. The newer townhouses give less room to work: the path to the yard is tight and the gazebo nearly touches the fences, so panels have to be lifted out toward the inside of the frame rather than the outside. In a condo, the first conversation is with the syndicate when the terrace is a common area, and the panels travel flat and protected by the stairs or the elevator.

Wind, sun, insects: choosing in Brossard

In the older sectors, mature trees shade the gazebo for part of the day: the film yellows more slowly, but the dampness that lingers under the roof stretches mosquito season into the evening. Standard fibreglass is enough for most panels; pet-resistant mesh is the call on low panels when a cat or dog has the run of the yard. In the narrow townhouse yards, wind channelled between fences argues for aluminum mesh on the exposed side, and for film that goes up before the first cold snap and comes down in spring rather than being left to flap all year.