Sunroom additions in Los Angeles CA - a room built for how you'll use it
Your patio or deck is too hot, too buggy or too exposed to use much. We'll add a glass room your family actually sits in.
What does adding a sunroom in Los Angeles actually involve?
A sunroom addition in Los Angeles is a room built onto your house, usually over a patio or deck, with a frame of aluminum, fiberglass or wood holding glass or solid panels in the walls and roof. It turns a spot you rarely use into a room you can sit in most days.
Most people who call us have a patio or deck that only gets used a few weekends a year, and some have an older room that's leaking or worn out, which is more a job for sunroom remodeling. The price moves mostly with the room's size, whether it's sealed off from the house or open to it, the glass and roof you pick and whether the old slab or deck has to be replaced first. The schedule turns on that base work and on the permit side. My written quote after the visit puts your own numbers on all of it.
What happens after you call us about a sunroom addition?
Call or send a message
Call (213) 340-1547 or use the form, and we'll get back to you to set up a time for me to come out. Our phones are open every day from 8 AM to 9 PM.
I come look myself
I measure, check the patio, slab or deck the room will sit on and ask a lot of questions about how your family will use it. Then I send a written quote that says which room type it's priced for and what base work it includes, so you can compare it fairly against anyone else's.
We handle permits, then build
Once you sign, we find out which office covers your address and handle the permit applications and inspections when your project needs them, and your contract says in writing who's getting the permits. Our own crew does the build, with a lead installer running the site.
Walk through the finished room
When the room's done, I come back and go through it with you, opening every door and window and checking that the tracks run smooth. Satisfaction guaranteed.
How we build a sunroom addition
The first thing I settle with you is whether the room stays shut off from the house or opens into it as living space, because that one choice decides the glass, the doors and how the room stays cool. Next, I check your old patio slab, and if it's buckled or badly cracked I'll tell you and plan a new one, since glass set on a bad base is a leak waiting to happen. With the base sound, our crew raises the frame, sets the roof and the glass and fits the doors. I spent years putting in windows and sliding doors before I switched to sunrooms, and a sunroom fails in the same places a slider does, at the track and the seal, so that's the work I watch closest. If your house is in the city's Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, the city requires a Class A fire-retardant roof assembly on every building and doesn't allow wood shakes or shingles, so we plan the roof around that from the first visit.
Which way you go on that first question usually decides the product. If you want the room open to the house and comfortable all year, that's one of our four season sunrooms, built to be heated or cooled. If you mostly want shade, glass and a place out of the bugs on mild days, our three season sunrooms stay shut off from the house, which keeps the build simpler because the room doesn't have to hold heat or cool air. We're based in Los Angeles and build both across the city and the cities around it, including Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank and Alhambra.
Get a written sunroom addition quote for your house
Send the form and we'll get back to you within one business day to set up a free visit at your property. I come out myself, measure, look at what the room will sit on and follow up with a written quote, with no pressure and no obligation.
Sunroom addition questions from Los Angeles homeowners
What is the best way to pick a sunroom type for my Los Angeles home?
Start with how you'll use the room, because industry standards split sunrooms into two kinds. One is sealed off from the house and isn't heated, cooled or counted as living space, while the other opens into the house, is built to be heated or cooled and counts as living space. If you want added living space, you want the open kind, and its windows and doors have to meet tighter limits on water, air leaks and heat flow. When you compare quotes, ask which kind each one is priced for.
Can a sunroom be built on my existing patio slab?
Sometimes, but only if the slab is in like-new shape. One sunroom maker's installation guide prefers a new slab or deck and says a slab with lots of buckles or cracks isn't suitable and could lead to leaks later. The same guide wants the foundation higher than the ground around it, so any water that gets in drains out through weep holes, small openings in the bottom track. If your slab doesn't pass, a new one comes first.
Will a sunroom get too hot in a Los Angeles summer?
It can if cooling isn't planned from the start. Research on glassed-in rooms cites studies from warm-climate countries where sun through the glass made the room less comfortable or raised the need for cooling. In a warm place like ours, decide how the room will be cooled before you pick the glass and the room type, and I'll talk that through with you on the visit.
How much does a sunroom addition cost in Los Angeles?
A 200-square-foot sunroom addition in Los Angeles usually costs about $23,000 to $66,000 for the whole job. That's the going range in the area, not our price, and where yours lands depends on the size, room type, glass, roof and base work covered above. The estimate is free, and my written quote gives you your own number.
How do permits work for a sunroom addition in Los Angeles?
In an R1 zone, the city's Department of Building and Safety, LADBS, won't issue a building permit unless the structure meets the city's R1 Zone rules. That means the room's size and placement have to fit those rules before anything gets built. We find out which office covers your address and handle the applications and inspections when your project needs them.
How do I check a sunroom contractor's license in California?
Look the contractor up with the Contractors State License Board online, or call the board at 1-800-321-CSLB. The board also says any home improvement job over $500 needs a written contract that tells you about your right to cancel, with any changes in writing, and the down payment can't be more than $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract price, whichever is less. We're licensed and insured, and we're glad to have you check.
Sunroom types to look at next
Four season sunrooms
Pick this if you want a room open to the house that you can heat or cool and use every month of the year.
Three season sunrooms
Pick this if you want a bright, bug-free spot for mild days that stays closed off from the rest of the house.
Book your sunroom addition estimate today
Call (213) 340-1547 or use the form, and have your address, a photo of your patio or deck and whether you want the room open to the house handy, so my visit gets right to the useful questions.