Screen enclosure permits in Casselberry: which building department is yours?
If your property is inside Casselberry city limits, permits go through the City of Casselberry Building Division at 95 Triplet Lake Drive — not Seminole County. If your Casselberry mailing address is in Fern Park (32730) or an unincorporated part of Deer Run, Seminole County is your building department instead. The mailing address does not settle it.
City of Casselberry Building Division
| Address | 95 Triplet Lake Drive, Casselberry, FL 32707 |
|---|---|
| Phone | (407) 262-7700, option 5 |
| Building@casselberry.org | |
| Hours | Monday–Thursday, 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Applications | Applied for, tracked and inspected through the city's CitizenServe online portal |
| Code | All plans submitted on or after January 1, 2024 must comply with the 2023 Florida Building Code, 8th Edition |
| Department | Community Development Department |
Source: City of Casselberry Building Division — https://www.casselberry.org/668/Building-Division
Casselberry runs its own Building Division. It does not defer to Seminole County for work inside the city limits. A homeowner who calls the county about a cage on a city-limits address gets sent back to the city, and that round trip is a week nobody needed to spend.
The reverse is equally true. Fern Park is unincorporated. Parts of Deer Run are unincorporated or in Winter Springs. Calling the city about those addresses gets you sent to the county.
Does a rescreen need a permit?
I would rather leave this blank than get it wrong.
No published answer exists, so this site does not give one
The City of Casselberry publishes no 'work exempt from permit' list on its website, and its Building Permits FAQ does not address screening at all. Several third-party pages assert that a screen-only replacement needs no permit in Seminole County, but every one of those found in research was contractor marketing content rather than the city or the county speaking. Call (407) 262-7700 option 5 or email Building@casselberry.org and get it in writing before relying on anyone's yes or no — mine included.
What is not in doubt
Structural work is a different category from a rescreen and should be assumed to require a permit. That means replacing beams, columns or footers, or changing the enclosure's dimensions, height or footprint. A rescreen does not change the footprint; a rebuild does.
Which is which
- Mesh and spline only, same frame — the open question above
- Replacing a bent or corroded structural member — assume permit
- Enlarging, raising or re-siting the cage — assume permit, and setbacks apply
- A new enclosure on an existing slab — permit, engineering, the lot
Design wind speeds in Seminole County
These are Seminole County's own published ultimate design wind speed designations, and they matter for enclosure structures and rebuilds rather than for mesh:
| Risk category | Speed | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Risk Category I | 129 mph | Figure 1609C |
| Risk Category II | 139 mph | Figure 1609A |
| Risk Category III & IV | 149 mph | Figure 1609B |
Linear interpolation between contours is permitted by a Florida-registered engineer.
Source: Seminole County ultimate design wind speed designations — https://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/docs/default-source/pdf/sc_windspeeddesignations.pdf
Which row applies to a screen enclosure
Screen enclosures are normally designed as Risk Category I structures, which would make 129 mph the number here. That was not confirmed against the code text in research.
A correction, since a competitor gets this wrong
Seminole County is not in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. The HVHZ is a specific designation and Seminole County does not carry it. If a screen contractor's website tells you your Casselberry cage has to meet HVHZ requirements, that is a reason to doubt the rest of the page, not a reason to pay more.
What Casselberry makes a contractor produce
Concrete and checkable, which is more than most trust badges are.
Contractors are not required to hold a separate City of Casselberry registration. But every building permit application in the city must upload:
- Workers' Compensation coverage, or a Certificate of Exemption
- General Liability insurance naming the City of Casselberry as certificate holder
That second one is specific and it is checkable. It is also a real friction point: it is what stops an unlicensed "screen guy" from pulling a permit in the city at all. If a job needs a permit and your contractor is vague about who is pulling it, that is the question to press.
Source: City of Casselberry Building Division — https://www.casselberry.org/668/Building-Division
My own credentials, stubbed until real
None of these are invented on this site and none of them will be. They go here when they exist.
Setbacks
Casselberry's Unified Land Development Regulations cover accessory structures at Section 2-7.9 and district setbacks at Table 2-5.4, but the actual screen-enclosure setback language could not be retrieved (Municode returned a 403). A rescreen does not change the footprint, so this only matters for a rebuild — but it matters a lot then.
Permits and licensing
Wording taken verbatim from live Google autocomplete for these searches, lowercase exactly as returned. Paraphrasing them would defeat the point.
do you need a permit for a screen enclosure
For a new screen enclosure, or for structural work — replacing beams, columns or footers, or changing the enclosure's dimensions, height or footprint — assume yes, and in the City of Casselberry that goes through the city's own Building Division at 95 Triplet Lake Drive, not Seminole County. For a like-for-like screen-only replacement on an existing unaltered frame, this site does not give a yes or no, because the city publishes no work-exempt-from-permit list and its Building Permits FAQ does not address screening. Call (407) 262-7700 option 5.
do you need a license to rescreen in florida
Screen enclosure work in Florida is licensed contracting, and Casselberry adds a checkable requirement on top: while contractors do not need a separate City of Casselberry registration, every building permit application must upload Workers' Compensation coverage or a Certificate of Exemption, plus General Liability insurance naming the City of Casselberry as certificate holder. That is what stops an unlicensed operator pulling a permit in the city.
do you need a permit to screen in an existing porch
Screening in a porch that was not previously screened is not a rescreen — it adds an enclosure to the structure, and it should be assumed to require a permit and possibly to raise setback questions. In the City of Casselberry that is the Building Division at 95 Triplet Lake Drive; all plans submitted on or after 1 January 2024 must comply with the 2023 Florida Building Code, 8th Edition. If your Casselberry mailing address is in Fern Park or an unincorporated part of Deer Run, it is Seminole County instead.
Not sure whether you are in the city?
Tell me the street. If it turns out to be county, I will tell you that too.