Four season sunrooms in Palmdale CA - a heated, cooled room tied into your house

Most people who call us want more use out of the back of the house and aren't sure where to start, so it helps to know what drives the job. The price moves mostly with the room's size, the materials you choose and the foundation, since pouring a new slab or shoring up a deck costs more than building on a sound base that's ready to go. The schedule turns on things around the build itself, like the permit, how quickly your choices get settled and whether an existing deck needs a closer look first, and the written estimate I send after measuring puts your own numbers on all of it.

The first thing I settle with you, before any design, is whether your back door and windows stay where they are or come out to open the room into the house. That choice matters because a sunroom with its own heating and cooling and the house doors and windows still in place stays thermally separate from the home and has its own requirements, while a room without that separation is basically a regular room addition. Once that's decided, we look at what the room will sit on and plan the insulation, wiring and heating as part of the room from the first drawing, not as add-ons later, because that's what makes it feel like the rest of the house. Then our crew sets the base, frames the walls and roof where they meet your house, closes it in and finishes it out.

Some people come in asking for a four season room and realize they want something lighter. A three season sunroom is enclosed with glass but has no insulation or heating and cooling, and if you only want to close in the space you already have, patio enclosures are often the simpler job. If you know you'll want to use the room every month, I'd steer you to the four season build now, because adding insulation and heat later means redoing a good part of the room.

The first step with any permit here is finding out which office it goes to, because some homes with a Palmdale mailing address sit in unincorporated LA County, outside the city's jurisdiction. We check whether your address falls under the City of Palmdale, LA County or Kern County, and when your room needs a permit, which a room tied into the house's wiring and heating usually does, we file with that office and set up the inspections. Inside city limits, that office is Palmdale Building and Safety, which oversees building on new, remodeled and existing homes.

Around Palmdale we see plenty of back yards with an older slab or a wood deck already in place, and rooflines that take some thought to tie into. We run into the same on jobs in Lancaster and Quartz Hill, and we handle them the same way, starting with what's underneath and how the roof meets the house before we draw anything. We're based in Palmdale and work in cities around the Antelope Valley, so if you're not sure we come out your way, just ask.