Sunroom Contractor in Yucaipa, CA - Rooms Planned Around Your Slab and House Wall

A lot of Yucaipa lots aren't flat. The yard steps down from the back of the house or slopes off to one side, so a new room ends up on a raised deck, on a slab that was poured to make up the grade, or on footings of different heights. That shapes the job more than anything else here, because a slab that's settled at one end or a deck on short posts will pull the room out of square and work at the roof where it meets your house. I framed houses for years before I built sunrooms, so I look at that base before I look at the glass, and if it needs new footings or a section of slab replaced, you'll see it written up as its own item.

Many of the houses we work on are single-story homes with a patio cover someone added years ago, often aluminum and often fastened to the fascia board at the edge of the roof. We don't hang a new room off a cover like that, because it was never meant to carry walls, so we either take it down or reinforce it based on what we find when it's open.

In Yucaipa, the city's Building & Safety Division issues building permits, and it reviews the plans before it issues one and inspects the work after, so the build starts when the city's review is done and not before. On our jobs we handle the permits the city asks for, and the contract says so in writing. The thing to check on any contractor is their state license with the Contractors State License Board, and we're licensed and fully insured. Your price mostly turns on the base, the size of the room, glass versus screen versus an insulated room, how the roof ties into your house and the permit fee the city works out, and when I write up the estimate you'll see what's in it and what isn't.

We're a sunroom contractor based in Redlands, a short drive down the hill, so our crew can be on your job early each morning without a long haul. Some streets here climb, and long glass panels and roof sections come on a truck that needs to get close to the backyard, so I look at side-yard access and gates when I measure. We do the same work just past Yucaipa in Calimesa and in many of the other cities around Redlands.

Most of the calls we get in Yucaipa come from single-family homes, a mix of older single-story houses and newer two-story ones, many with more room out back than you'd find on lots closer to the valley floor. A good share already have something built off the back, a patio cover, a deck or a slab with an old enclosure on it, and the owner wants to turn it into a room they'll use year after year.

It's a lot like the work we do next door in Mentone. The grade of the yard and whatever was already built against the house decide most of the plan, so that's where I start on every job here.