Patio enclosures in Palmdale CA - a shaded patio that keeps the bugs out

Most people who call me about this already have a cover out back and still don't sit under it much, because of bugs at dusk or wind pushing dust across the slab. If you don't have a cover yet, that comes first with patio cover installation, since the enclosure fills in the sides of it. The price mostly moves with the size of the patio, how many openings we fill, whether you pick screen or removable panels, and whatever the cover, posts or slab need before we start. The schedule usually turns on the permit and on what I find when I look at how the cover meets your house, and the written estimate I send after measuring gives you your own figure.

Here you're choosing between screens and clear panels you can take down, and either way the space stays mostly open, like a covered patio you can see out of on every side. I come out first, measure, and look at the cover, the posts and how the whole thing ties into the house, because a screen frame is only as straight as what it's fastened to. Then we work out which openings get screen and which get panels, and you get a written estimate. Once the permit is in hand, our crew fixes anything the cover needs, sets the frames, fits the screen or panels and cleans up. If what you really want is a closed room with windows, I'll tell you that up front so we plan the right project instead of stretching this one.

That closed room is its own job. When you want one, we plan it from the start as sunroom construction, and when the layout, the roofline or the way you'll use the space doesn't fit a standard shape, we draw it up as one of our custom sunrooms.

Before anything gets filed, I check whether your address falls under the City of Palmdale, LA County or Kern County, because some homes with a Palmdale mailing address sit in unincorporated county land and answer to the county instead. Inside city limits, Palmdale Building and Safety issues the permit. A cover built to the City's standard patio plan can go at least 5 feet from your side and rear property lines, and 20 feet from the front line if it's in a front yard, without planning approval. Anywhere else, the Planning Division has to review and approve it first, so I measure from your lines at the estimate. We file the paperwork with whichever office has your address and set up the inspections.

The standard plan also ties the build to the wildfire building code and the City's fire hazard zone maps, and in the High and Very High zones some remodels may need fire-resistant materials, so I look your address up before we pick what goes in the openings. Out here, most jobs come down to wind, dust and hard afternoon sun on the back of the house, and to covers and slabs that have been sitting a while. We see the same thing on jobs in Lancaster and Quartz Hill, so I always check how the cover is fastened to the house and what the posts stand on before we hang anything off it.