Three season sunrooms in Palmdale CA - real windows on a base that's built to carry them

Most of the calls I get come from people who want more use out of the back of the house and aren't sure where to start. The price mostly turns on the room's size, how many windows you want and what it sits on, since an old deck or a cracked slab may need work before anything goes on top. Wanting to heat or cool the room someday adds to it as well, and at that point a four season sunroom may suit you better. The schedule turns mostly on the permit and any repair the base needs, and the written estimate I send after the visit lays out your options and the price for your job.

Most people who ask for a three season room want real windows, and that's a bigger project than closing in a patio cover, so I start by asking how you'll use the room and whether you might want to heat it someday. That's easier to plan for now than to change later. Next I look closely at what the room will sit on and how it meets the house, because that's where trouble starts if nobody looks. Once you've approved the plan and any permit is in hand, our crew repairs or builds up the base, frames the walls and roof, sets the windows and siding, and ties the room into the house, and we clean up when it's done.

If you'd rather keep the space open to the breeze with screens, our patio enclosures are a lighter way to close it in. When the house has an odd roofline or you want a shape no standard room fits, we design it as one of our custom sunrooms, which is the kind of job I enjoy most.

Before anything else, I check whether your address falls under the City of Palmdale, LA County or Kern County, because that decides which office reviews your room, and then we file with that office and set up the inspections. Inside the city, every permit applicant has to turn in a plan for handling construction waste, so we sort out where old decking and cut-offs go before the crew shows up. The city also sets the ground snow load that roofs here are designed for, which shapes the roof framing we put over your room. One energy report provider puts Palmdale in California climate zone 14, confirmed address by address, and that zone sets the requirements an energy report has to meet.

What we see most on jobs out here is older slab patios and wood decks that were built to sit on, not to hold up walls and a roof, so I look closely at the base and where the room ties into the house. It's the same story on jobs in Lancaster and Quartz Hill, and we work in cities across the Antelope Valley, so if you're not sure we come out your way, just ask.