Screen room installation in Anaheim CA - a breezy room with the bugs kept out

Most people who call about a screen room have a patio or slab out back that they stop using once the flies and mosquitoes show up, or a patio cover that gives them shade but does nothing about bugs. We're based in Anaheim and work in the cities around it. When I come out, the price usually turns on the size of the room, which roof you pick, how that roof has to tie into your house and whether your slab or deck can carry the new frame as it is. The schedule mostly depends on the city's permit review and any work the base needs first, and you get your own numbers from the estimate at your home.

I start by looking at how your house is built, because that decides whether the screen room's roof fastens to the wall or along the roof edge. Either way, we want it anchored into the framing of the house and not just the siding or trim. Then we settle the roof and the mesh, and I lay the screen options side by side for you, since a tighter weave stops the tiniest bugs but lets less air through, and a heavier wire is stronger but you see more of it when you look out at the yard. Once the plan and any permit are in place, our crew checks the slab or deck, sets the frame, builds the roof, stretches the screen and cleans up before we walk the finished room with you.

A screen room is also a good way to try out an outdoor room before you commit to glass. If you think you'll want walls and windows later, tell me early, because a patio-to-sunroom conversion or a deck-to-sunroom conversion usually goes easier when the roof and frame were planned for it from the start.

Anaheim requires a permit for most improvements before construction starts, and only cosmetic work goes without one, so we plan on a permit for a new roofed room unless the city tells us otherwise. The city's Building Division handles plan review and inspections. We find out what that office asks for on your project and take care of the permit paperwork when the job needs it, and if something isn't clear, we check with the city before we build. Anaheim has also amended the state building codes for its local land, climate and geology, and its local design criteria include an earthquake design category, so the way your roof ties into the house has to meet the city's version of the code, not just look solid. If you have questions about your own lot, the Building Division is the place to ask.

On jobs around here we mostly meet single-story stucco homes with low eaves, plus a fair number of two-story houses, and a low eave can limit where the roof mounts, so we check that before we draw anything. We see the same mix of slab patios and older wood decks on jobs in Fullerton and Garden Grove.