Patio enclosures in Anaheim CA - a covered patio turned into a room you'll use

Most people who call us have a patio they like and hardly use, because the bugs, the wind or the late sun keep sending them back inside. The price mostly turns on which walls you pick and whether your cover and slab can carry them as they are. The schedule turns on the same thing, since any repair to the cover or slab has to happen before a wall goes up. If there's no cover yet, that starts with patio cover installation. Either way, you get your own number from the estimate visit at your house, once I've seen the patio in person.

Your patio cover becomes the roof of the new room, so I start by checking how it's fastened to the house and how the posts and beams are holding up before we talk about walls at all. Then I look at the slab underneath, because the walls sit on it. If either one isn't up to the job, I tell you before we price anything, so you're choosing with the full picture. Once the base is settled, we go over wall options side by side, I measure, and our crew handles any prep on the slab, sets the walls square, ties them into the roof, seals them and cleans up when we're done.

Sometimes the cover isn't worth saving, and that's when sunroom construction makes more sense, because the roof and walls get built new as one room. If you want a room shaped around the house rather than the outline of the patio, we plan it as one of our custom sunrooms.

The City of Anaheim has changed the state building codes to fit local land, climate and ground conditions, and those changes apply to home projects, so every enclosure we build here is built to the city's version of the rules, not just the state's. We find out what the city's building office asks for on your project before we start. If anything is unclear, we check with the city before we build, and for questions about your own lot I'll point you to the city directly.

The city also says the threat of wildfire is real, especially in east Anaheim, and it uses the state's fire hazard map, which is on file at the Anaheim Fire Department. If you're on that side of town, look up your lot on the city's fire hazard zone page before we sit down to plan. Most patios we close in are slabs off the back of the house under an attached cover, and we see the same setup on jobs in Fullerton and Orange.