Screen room installation in La Palma CA - panels set straight on your house

Most people call because the patio is there but nobody sits on it once the bugs come out, and a screen room fixes that without the cost of glass and insulation. The price mostly turns on the size of the room, whether it needs its own roof or goes under a patio cover you already have, how the roof attaches to your house and which panels and door you pick. The schedule depends on whether the city needs to check plans first and how soon the panels come in. When I come out, I write up the room type, the options and the price for your job.

I start at the house. A screen room is lighter work than a glass room, but it still has to fasten to your house the right way, and house walls are often a little out of plumb, leaning just enough that you won't see it until a level goes on. One maker's instructions point out that in many cases the wall isn't plumb, which makes panels hard to seat in the wall channel, so I look at the wall and roof edge first and we set the channel so the panels go in straight. Where the room gets its own roof, how your house is built decides how it anchors, since makers allow the roof channel on the wall or on the fascia, the board along your roof edge, with or without a ledger board bolted to the framing. Then our crew sets the panels and the door, checks that everything opens and closes square, and cleans up the patio before we leave.

If you're torn between screens and glass, settle it now, because insulation and glass are choices to make before we build, not after. If you want a room you can close up when it's cold, a patio-to-sunroom conversion suits a slab patio better, and a deck-to-sunroom conversion does the same for a raised deck, where the deck framing gets a close look first.

In La Palma, the city's Building & Safety Division issues permits for buildings and structures, and almost all improvement plans go through plan check before work starts. That general rule doesn't settle every screen room by itself, so we check with the city on what your room needs before anything is ordered. Work here is built to the state's building codes along with the city's own changes. If your job needs a permit, we take care of it. We prepare the plans, file them with the city, book the inspections and let you know ahead of any visit where you need to be home.

Most of the screen rooms we're asked about here, and on jobs in Cypress and Buena Park, go on a concrete patio behind a stucco house, often under a patio cover that's already up. Before we plan around an existing slab or cover, I check whether it's sound enough to carry the room, because a room is only as good as what it sits on.