All season rooms in Anaheim CA - a room you can use comfortably all year

Most calls start with a patio or sunroom that sits empty because it's too hot on summer afternoons and too cold on winter evenings to bother with. A three season room costs less, so the real question is how often you'll actually be out there. The price moves with the room's size, the glass and frame you choose and the kind of foundation it needs, while the schedule mostly turns on that foundation work and what the city needs before we start. Your own figure comes from the visit to your house, where we measure and look at what's already there.

We start with how you'll use the room, because an all season room only earns its extra cost over a three season room if you'll be in it on hot afternoons and cool evenings, not just on nice spring days. Then we plan the whole room before anything goes up, so the size, the tie-in to your house, the frame, the glass and the power and heating and cooling are all settled on paper first. Where a wall of glass faces west we spend extra time on the glass and the shade, since afternoon sun is what makes these rooms hard to keep cool. Once the plan is set and anything the city needs is approved, our crew builds the foundation, frames and closes in the room, and we tell you what's coming at each step so you're never left wondering.

Some people find they don't need a fully heated and cooled room. If you mostly want a covered patio closed in for shade and shelter, our enclosed patio rooms may suit you better and cost less. If you want glass overhead as well as on the walls, ask about solarium installation, though in our summers that roof glass needs the same care we give a west wall.

Anaheim's Building Division issues building permits, and the city says most improvements need a permit before construction starts, with only cosmetic work left out. The city also adds its own changes to the state building codes for local ground, climate and earthquake conditions, so a room plan here has to meet those as well as the state rules. We find out what the building office asks for on each project and take care of the permit paperwork when the job needs it, and if something is unclear we check with the city before we build. For questions about your own lot, call the Building Division at 714-765-5153.

Summer heat is the other thing that shapes these rooms. Anaheim runs warmer in summer than the coast, and one energy report firm notes that heat coming through glass counts for more in the state energy checks here, so a west-facing glass wall that passes in Westminster can fail the same check in Anaheim. That's why the west wall gets the closest look on our plans, and we treat it the same way on jobs in Fullerton and the other cities we work in.