Sunroom additions in Palmdale CA - a room that stays dry where it meets the house

Most people who call me want more use out of the back of the house and aren't sure where to start, maybe because they have an old slab, a tired deck or a patio cover they've outgrown. The price mostly moves with the size of the room, whether it opens into the house and needs heating, cooling and better windows, and what it sits on, since a sound slab usually costs less to build on than a deck or footings that need work first. The schedule turns on those same things plus how long the permit takes with whichever office covers your address, and when your job needs one we handle that paperwork for you. Once I've measured and looked underneath, you get a written estimate with your own numbers.

The first thing we settle is whether the room stays closed off from the house or opens into it as living space, because that choice decides the windows, the heating and cooling and everything after. Then I look hard at how the new room will shed water and join your house wall, since that seam is where leaks like to start, so I plan the roof pitch and the flashing, the metal that turns water away from the joint, before anything gets ordered. Once the plan is set, our crew checks or prepares what the room sits on, frames it, sets the roof and ties it into the house, installs the windows and doors, seals everything and cleans up, and I'm on site checking the work as it goes.

If you want a room you can use in July and January alike, that's a four season sunroom, with insulated glass and heating and cooling. If you mostly want shade, a break from the wind and a place to sit from spring through fall, a three season sunroom costs less and does that job well. If you'll be in the room every day, I usually steer people toward four season, because adding heat and better glass later often means redoing walls you just paid for.

Before we plan the permit, we check which office your address falls under, because some homes with a Palmdale mailing address sit in unincorporated LA County, outside the city's reach, and a job farther north may come under Kern County. Inside city limits, Palmdale's Building and Safety division regulates building on new, remodeled and existing homes, and every applicant has to include a plan for handling the construction waste, which we put together with the rest of the filing. When your job needs a permit, we file with the right office and set up the inspections, so you're not left guessing which counter to call.

Around here the ground under the room matters as much as the room, because we run into plenty of older slabs with cracks and backyard decks that were never built to carry walls and a roof, and I'd rather find that on the first visit than halfway through the build. We see the same mix on jobs in Lancaster and Quartz Hill, and we check it the same way.