Sunroom remodeling in Anaheim CA - a room you'll actually use, summer and winter

Most people who call us have a room they've stopped using because it's too hot by early afternoon, drafty in January, or the screens have torn and the windows stick. The price moves with the room's size, whether the floor or foundation needs work, whether you add heating and cooling to make it usable all year, and which roof and glass you pick. The schedule turns on how much of the room changes, since new screens are a smaller job than a new roof and all-weather windows, and on how long the glass and panels take to arrive. Your own figure comes from the quote I put together at your house.

The first thing I ask is what the room should become, a better seasonal space for spring and fall or a room you can use all year, because that answer decides the roof, the glass and whether heating and cooling go in. Once you've chosen, I measure and draw up the plan, we order the windows, panels or screens, and our installers take out what's coming off, rework the roof, set the new glass or screens, then seal, finish and clean up. If a glass roof is turning your room into a hot box, I'll lay out the other options side by side with what each would take, and the choice stays with you.

Some rooms are better opened up than closed in, so if you'd rather catch the breeze without the bugs, screen room installation may suit you better than more glass. If what you have is really a covered patio with no walls yet, that's a patio-to-sunroom conversion rather than a remodel, and we plan it the same careful way.

It helps to know early who reviews building work here, and in Anaheim that's the city's Building Division, which handles plan review and inspections with engineers and inspectors on staff. The city's zoning code treats patio structures in single-family zones as accessory structures, and they aren't held to lot coverage or area limits except where the Building Code and its encroachment table require it. That wording doesn't settle whether a closed-in sunroom counts as a patio structure, so when it's unclear for your job, we check with the city before we build, and questions about your own lot are best taken to the city directly. If you're in east Anaheim, the city says the wildfire threat there is real, and you can see which state fire hazard zone your house sits in on the city's fire hazard severity zones page.

Most remodels we see start with an older enclosure facing the afternoon sun, a roof that turns the room into an oven by July and windows that let the cold in on winter nights. We're based in Anaheim and work in the cities around it, and we see the same tired rooms on jobs in Fullerton and Orange.