Three season sunrooms in Montclair CA - a room you'll use spring through fall

Most of our calls come from homeowners with a covered patio or a deck they want more out of, and a three season room is often the right fit when you want somewhere to sit out of the bugs and dust but don't need it on the coldest nights. If you want a room you'll use all year, a four season sunroom is the better buy, and I'll tell you straight which one fits once I've seen your space. The price moves with the room's size, the windows and screens you pick, the electrical you want and how much work the base under it needs, while the schedule turns mostly on that base and on the city's review. Your own number comes from the estimate, after I've measured and looked at what the room will sit on.

We start by talking about how you'll use the room, because a three season room runs warmer and cooler than the rest of the house, and I want you to know that going in so the room matches the way you'll use it. Then we measure, check the slab or deck it'll sit on and settle the big choices like windows, screens, roof and what's under the floor before anyone draws a plan, since those are the hardest things to change later. Once the plans are set, we prepare the base, frame the walls, tie the roof into your house, set the windows, screen panels and doors, run the electrical you asked for and clean up the site when we're done.

If you'd rather keep the open feel and just keep the bugs and leaves out, patio enclosures close in the space you already have with less building. When your house has an odd roofline or you want a room that wraps a corner, we build custom sunrooms to the shape of the house instead of a standard layout.

When a sunroom job needs a permit in Montclair, the city's building staff issue it, and they want a workers' compensation insurance certificate on file before they do. A licensed contractor, the property owner or an agent for either can pull the permit, and I'll tell you at the estimate who's pulling yours. When a job needs one, we prepare the plans, handle the city paperwork, including any structural or energy calculations the city asks a licensed professional to provide, and keep you posted on where it stands. If you have a question about the process, the city's building division is the office to ask. Inspections run on the city's calendar, and since the city is closed on Fridays, an inspection asked for on a Thursday lands on Monday, while a next-day inspection needs the request in before 5 p.m.

Most of what we build here goes behind the house on a covered patio, a bare slab or an older deck, so the first thing I look at is what the room will sit on, because that decides how much work the base needs. We see the same mix on jobs in Ontario and Upland, and the questions I ask at your estimate are the ones that come up there too.