Sunroom additions in Anaheim CA - a comfortable room you'll actually use

Most people who call us have a patio that's too hot to sit on, a deck that sits empty, or an old sunroom nobody goes into, and if all you want is a covered patio closed in, a patio enclosure may be the simpler job. The price moves with three things: how big the room is, what it sits on, and whether it gets heating and cooling, and a larger room that needs a foundation and air conditioning lands at the high end. The schedule mostly turns on what we find under the room and on the city's plan review and inspections, which we handle as part of the job, so I walk you through both at the estimate, where you get the figure for your own room.

Most of the work on a sunroom addition starts underneath, so the first thing we do is look hard at the slab or deck the room will sit on and tell you straight whether it's ready, needs more support or needs a fresh start. Then we talk through how you'll use the room, because a place for morning coffee and potted plants can get by with screens, while a room you want to sit in on a hot August afternoon needs heating and cooling. Once the base and the room type are settled, we build the frame, set the roof and the windows or screens, finish the inside and clean up before we hand it over.

The room type is the bigger fork in the road. If you want a room you can heat and cool and use any month of the year, our four season sunrooms are built for that. If screens or simple windows suit the way you'll use it, three season sunrooms keep that outdoor feel and usually cost less because there's no heating and cooling to add.

In Anaheim, a sunroom addition is the kind of work that usually needs a permit, because the city requires one for most improvements before construction starts and leaves out only cosmetic work. The city's Building Division reviews the plans and does the inspections, so we find out what it asks for on your project, take care of the permit paperwork when the job needs it, and check with the city before we build if anything is unclear. Questions about your own lot are best taken straight to the division at 714-765-5153.

We're based in Anaheim and work in the cities around it, and a lot of what we see is backyard concrete poured long before anyone planned to build on it. A patio that's settled or cracked is fine under a grill but not always under walls and a roof, which is why we check it before we design around it, and we run into the same older slabs and add-on decks on jobs in Fullerton and Garden Grove.