All season rooms in Redlands, CA - a year-round room built right from the base up

Most people who call us have a patio or deck off the back door they'd use more if it were a real room, and the first thing I ask is whether that room should open into the house or stay closed off behind the doors you have now, because that choice decides how it's heated and cooled and a good part of the price. The size of the room, whether it needs a new foundation and what it sits on move the cost the most, since a deck-to-sunroom conversion often needs more under it than a room on a slab does. The schedule mostly turns on the building office's approval and, on a deck, the engineer's check. We take care of the permits, and your written estimate lists what's in the price and what isn't.

Before any design, we help you decide whether the room opens into the house or stays closed off behind your existing doors, because everything after that follows from it. If the room is going on a deck that's in question, we have a structural engineer look at it first, since there's no sense drawing a room the deck can't carry. Then we draw the room to fit your lot and your house, sort out the permits, prepare the base, frame the walls, tie the roof into the house so water runs off instead of in, and seal the tracks and edges before the heating and cooling goes in. Those are the parts you won't see once it's done, and they're the ones I watch most closely.

Some homeowners land on a different kind of room once we talk it through. If you have a solid patio cover and want walls under it, an enclosed patio room may get you there with less work, and if you want a room that's mostly glass overhead and on the sides, we also do solarium installation.

When a room falls under California's energy rules for additions, the building office has to approve the paperwork showing it meets them before it issues a building permit, so that step comes before any work starts on your house. Whether the building office for your address is the city or the county, we take care of the permits it asks for, and the contract says in writing that we're handling them. If you're on a corner lot in one of the city's residential districts, the side yard facing the street has to be at least as deep as the required front yard and never less than 15 feet, so when a patio runs toward the side street, I measure that line before we draw anything.

Most homes we work on here have a slab or a deck off the back, and the room has to tie into a house wall and roof edge that were never planned for one, which is why I look closely at both on the first visit. We're based in Redlands and work in many of the cities around it in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, and we run into the same setups on jobs in Highland and Yucaipa.