Three season sunrooms in La Palma CA - an outdoor room on a base built to carry it

Most people who call us have a patio, a deck or an old sunroom that sits empty more than they'd like, and a three season room is often the simplest way to get real use out of it. If you already know you want heat and air, a four season sunroom is the other road. The price mostly turns on the size of the room, whether it needs a new foundation or can sit on what you have, and whether you go with glass, screens or some of each. The schedule mostly turns on the city's plan review and inspections, and if your job needs a permit, we take care of it. At the estimate you get the room type, the options and the price written up for your job. 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.

We start under the room, not with the windows. I check the slab or deck it will sit on and how it meets the house, because a room is only as good as what it sits on, and we'd rather fix the base now than chase cracks and sticking doors later. Then we settle the walls with you, and if there's any chance you'll want to heat or cool the room later, tell us now, because a room meant to be heated or cooled needs windows and doors rated for air leaks, water and heat, and we can pick them with that in mind so you aren't replacing them down the road. Once the base and the plan are set, our crew frames the room, sets the roof, windows and doors, ties it into the house and cleans up the yard when we're done.

If all you want is walls around the patio cover you already have, our patio enclosures may be the simpler job. When the room needs an odd shape, a different roof line or a layout that fits your house in a particular way, we build it as one of our custom sunrooms.

Before a sunroom goes up in La Palma, the plans usually go to the city first. La Palma's Building & Safety Division issues permits, and the city says almost all improvement plans need plan check before a permit is issued, so we plan on it for a room like this. Plan check starts once the city has the plans and the fee, and some plans also go to Fire or Health review. We draw up the plans, file them, answer the city's questions and keep you posted until the permit is in hand.

A lot of the houses around La Palma already have an aluminum or wood patio cover out back, and people often ask if we can just add walls under it. Sometimes we can, but that cover was built to shade a patio and not to hold windows, so we check how it's fastened to the house and what its posts stand on before we plan around it. We see the same backyards on jobs in Cypress and Buena Park.