Sunroom remodeling in La Palma CA - your sunroom, made to fit how you use it

Most of the sunrooms I'm called about are too hot in summer, cold on winter evenings or have doors that stick, so they end up holding boxes. The biggest thing that moves the price is whether the room stays closed off from the house or becomes living space, because living space asks more of the glass and doors. Size, heating and air, and the shape of the base under the room move it too. The schedule mostly turns on whether the city needs to review plans and how much of the room we're changing. At the estimate I write up the room type, the options and the price for your job, so you can see the choices side by side.

I start by looking at the room you have and what it sits on, because a room is only as good as its base, and then we decide together whether it needs a refresh or should become heated or cooled living space. If it's going to be living space, the industry's sunroom specification asks the windows and doors to hold back air and water and keep heat where it belongs, so we settle on insulation and glass before we build, not after. Our crew does the work with me on site, and we take extra care sealing the joints and corners where the room meets the floor, because one sunroom maker notes the only way to fix a leak at the floor track is to take the room apart. We clean up as we go and walk the finished room with you.

Some rooms we're shown aren't really sunrooms yet. If you've got a covered patio you'd like to close in, that's a patio-to-sunroom conversion, and if you'd rather keep the open-air feel and just keep the bugs out, screen room installation is the lighter job.

In La Palma, almost all improvement plans go through plan check with Building & Safety, and the city's handout list names attached patio covers but not sunroom remodels, so whether your remodel needs a permit is the city's call to make. You can ask before anything is filed, since the city takes calls for help with permit applications at 714-690-3340. The city's planning staff also review residential remodels and design, so a sunroom job may go through Planning as well as Building & Safety. If your job needs a permit, 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. Inspections here run Monday through Thursday mornings until noon, with none on Fridays, so that's when those visits land.

We're based in La Palma and work in many of the cities around it, on both the Orange County and Los Angeles County sides. A lot of the older rooms we look at were added onto a patio slab or an old cover years ago, so I check how the slab and framing are holding up before we plan anything, and we find the same kind of rooms on jobs in Cypress and Buena Park.