Screen room installation in Montclair CA - an open-air room without the bugs

Most people who call Solcraft Montclair Sunrooms & Patios already have a covered patio or a deck and want more use out of it, and a screen room is often the simplest way to get there. We're based in Montclair and work in Ontario, Pomona, Upland, Chino and the other cities around it. The price mostly moves with the room's size, whether the roof is already there or we're building one, the mesh you pick and how the room attaches to the house, while the schedule usually turns on whether the city needs to review plans first. If you think you'll want glass you can close up in winter, a three season sunroom may suit you better, and I'd rather settle that up front than after the screen is up. You'll get your own number at the estimate, once we've seen the space.

The mesh matters more than people think, so it's the first thing we look at. We check how much sun that wall gets and whether you've got a dog or cat that'll push on the screen, then match the mesh to both, because the wrong one wears out early or ends up torn. Next we measure, look at what's under the floor and work out with you whether the room ties in at the roof edge or the house wall, since that decides how the frame carries its load. Then we set the framing, fasten it to the house, stretch the screen tight, hang the door and clean up before we leave.

A screen room is often a first step. If you later want glass and a room you can heat and cool, a patio-to-sunroom conversion builds on the same covered space, and if your outdoor space is raised, a deck-to-sunroom conversion starts with making sure the deck can carry walls and a roof. Tell me at the estimate if either is on your mind, because it changes how we frame the room now.

The city's Building and Safety Division issues building permits in Montclair, most of them in person at City Hall, where fees are paid by check, cash or credit card. Whether your screen room needs one depends on the job, so ask the division or ask me before you assume it doesn't. When it does, we prepare the plans, handle the city paperwork and keep you posted on where it stands, and the city wants a valid workers' compensation certificate on file before it issues any permit. Plan review usually takes about two weeks the first time and about a week for each round after, so those weeks go in front of your start date.

Most screen rooms we put in around here go under a patio cover on a slab behind the house, and walls facing south and west take hard afternoon sun most of the year, which is why we spend so long on the mesh. We see the same setup on jobs in Upland and Rancho Cucamonga.