Turf beside an Edgewood pool cage, city and county both

A pool-area turf project in Edgewood clears the city's zoning desk before Orange County issues anything, since Edgewood has no building official of its own. Turf around a screened pool costs the same $8–$18 a square foot here as of September 2026, glued at the hardscape edges and set on a drainage underlay beneath the enclosure.

Reviewed by Luis Austin, owner · Last reviewed September 21, 2026

Searching for the best pool turf installer near you in Edgewood?

Searching for the best pool and lanai turf installer near you in Edgewood should turn up a crew that already knows the city's two-step process: zoning approval from Edgewood, then the permit itself from Orange County's Building Department through Fast Track (the Edgewood permitting page; Fast Track Online Services). A contractor who has to look that up mid-quote hasn't worked in the city before.

Why a shaded lanai floor tends to outlast an open deck border

Synthetic turf generally lasts ten to twenty years depending on UV stabilization, traffic, and infill, and a glued lanai floor under screen mesh in Edgewood usually lands toward the higher end of that window, since the mesh cuts a meaningful amount of direct UV exposure compared with an open border baking in full sun all day. Foot traffic works the other direction: a well-used lanai floor near the door sees more steps over a season than a border strip along a fence line ever does. Which factor wins out depends on the household, but shade alone does not guarantee the longest possible lifespan.

Say you have a 220 sq ft border inside a 1990s pool cage

A 220 square foot pool-deck border in one of Edgewood's 1990s-annexed neighborhoods prices between $2,200 and $3,520 at the published $10–$16 typical range. The application still needs Edgewood's zoning sign-off before Orange County's Fast Track system issues the actual permit, a sequence that adds a short review step rather than a separate fee most homeowners notice. Whether the home sits in that newer annexed section or closer to Edgewood's original footprint on Orange Avenue, the same drainage underlay goes in beneath the turf at the deck line.

Pool cages added when Edgewood doubled in size

Edgewood annexed several contiguous Orange County neighborhoods in the 1990s, roughly doubling its footprint, and much of that newer stock came with a screened pool cage as a standard feature (Edgewood, Florida). A lanai turf strip inside one of those enclosures needs a drainage underlay where it meets the existing deck, since the concrete slab doesn't pass water the way soil does, regardless of whether the home sits in the original 1920s town footprint or the 1990s-annexed edge.

The slight dip that can form around a screen cage footer

A screen cage's concrete footers and the surrounding Edgewood deck border's rock-and-turf base can settle at slightly different rates over a season or two, since one sits on its own small concrete pad and the other on compacted rock over native sand, and that difference sometimes shows up as a faint dip or ridge ringing each footer. It's rarely a structural issue with either the cage or the turf, just two systems settling independently, but it's worth checking during a routine perimeter walk since a growing gap at a footer can eventually catch a bare foot or trap water in a small ring.

What actually holds up a turf ribbon between pavers?

A narrow strip of turf set into a paver joint near the pool does not sit on a rock base at all; the pavers themselves carry the load, and the turf gets a thin leveling layer of sand in the joint rather than the two to four inches used everywhere else on a Edgewood lot. That thin joint still has to drain rather than trap water against the paver edges, so the sand underneath needs to stay loose enough to percolate, the same principle behind leaving native soil uncompacted under a full-size base. A joint packed too tight holds water at the surface just as a bad rock base would.

Capped irrigation regardless of which utility bills the address

Edgewood's own tax on Orlando Utilities Commission water sales within city limits points to OUC as the utility serving most pool-cage addresses here (the OUC rate schedule), though a specific bill is worth checking. Either way, any spray head that used to reach a pool deck's border gets capped as part of the install, because Florida's May 2026 standard simply doesn't allow an in-ground system to keep watering synthetic turf, whichever utility happens to be billing the account.

Belle Isle and Conway see similar pool-cage jobs on their own older enclosures, and the Edgewood turf guide above walks through the permitting sequence specific to this city. On the product side, the pool and lanai service page lays out backing choices for a glued edge, and our article on whether turf can melt is worth a look given how much reflective glass a screen cage puts near the ground.

Capping the sprinkler zone that used to reach the deck border

Any irrigation head that used to water the strip along a Edgewood pool cage gets capped at the valve during base work, the same step any residential turf conversion goes through, since the state's rule against watering synthetic turf with an in-ground system applies right up to the cage wall. From that point on, the hose bib already mounted near most pool equipment pads becomes the rinse source for that section, which is convenient since it is usually closer to the border than the nearest hose bib elsewhere on the property. Nobody has to run a hose across the whole yard just to reach it.

Marking where the glued floor ends and the staked border begins

On handoff day, noting exactly where a Edgewood lanai floor's glued section ends and an open, staked deck border begins pays off later, since after a season of grooming and rinsing the two can look identical from the surface even though they need different post-storm checks and different repair methods. A quick photo or a note in whatever records the homeowner keeps for the pool itself settles this before memory of the actual boundary fades. Whoever checks the yard for storm damage months or years later benefits from knowing which method applies to which section without having to guess from appearance alone.

Questions people ask

Does a newer, 1990s-annexed Edgewood home skip the city's zoning review?

No. Every address inside Edgewood's current limits goes through the same city zoning check before Orange County issues a permit, regardless of whether the neighborhood was part of the original 1924 town or added during the 1990s annexation.

Does an Edgewood pool cage need a different drainage underlay than one in Conway or Belle Isle?

The underlay itself is the same product and method. What can differ is the deck's age and condition, since older concrete has had more time to develop control-joint gaps or minor settling worth checking before turf goes down tight to the slab.

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