Enclosed patio rooms in Montclair CA - a room that fits how you'll use it

At Solcraft Montclair Sunrooms & Patios, most of our calls come from homeowners in Montclair, Ontario, Pomona, Upland, Chino and the other cities around them who already have a covered patio and want more out of it. The price moves with the size of the room, whether it can sit on your slab or needs a new foundation, and whether you go with screens, plain glass or a four season room with insulated windows and heating and cooling. The schedule turns mostly on the city's plan review and how settled the design is before it goes in, so the sooner we pin down the big choices, the sooner we can build. I'll give you your own figure once I've measured at your place.

Most enclosed patios won't hold temperature like the house does, so before anything else we lay out the comfort and the cost side by side and let you pick. Once you've chosen, we settle the big items up front, like insulation and what's under the floor, because they're the hardest things to change after the walls go up. Then our crew frames the walls on your slab or deck, ties the roof in so it sheds water, sets the windows or screens, runs any electrical you've asked for, and finishes the trim and cleanup before we walk the room with you.

Some patios need work before they can be closed in. If yours has no roof yet, we start with patio cover installation, since the enclosure needs a solid cover to hang from. If you want glass overhead and all the light you can get, solarium installation is usually the better fit, though a glass roof tends to run warmer on summer afternoons.

The city's building division issues building permits for construction on private property, and its staff check the plans and inspect the work on site, so that's the office to ask whether your room needs a permit. When a job needs one, we prepare the plans, handle the city paperwork and keep you posted on where it stands, so you're not chasing the counter yourself.

We see a lot of covered patios sitting on slabs poured years ago, here and on jobs in Ontario and Upland, and a slab that was fine under a roof isn't always ready for walls. Building guidance from Milpitas, another California city, warns that cutting a tendon in a post-tension slab, the kind with steel cables tensioned inside the concrete, can be very dangerous and expensive to repair, so I want to know what your slab is before any cutting goes on the plan.