Enclosed patio rooms in Riverside, CA - a room planned for how you'll use it

Most people who call me already have a patio or deck they like and can't use for half the year. The first thing we settle is whether the room stays closed off from the house with no heating or cooling, or opens to the house and gets conditioned, because that choice sets the windows, the price and the paperwork. After that, the price mostly moves with the size of the room, the shape your slab is in and what goes in the openings. The schedule turns on whether the slab needs work before we build and on the permit, if your job needs one. I'll measure and look everything over in person, then send you a written estimate for your patio.

The first thing I ask is whether there's any chance you'll want to heat the room down the road, because a room planned to stay unheated is built differently from one that will be, and it's far easier to plan for that now than to undo it later. Then we check the slab or deck, since the room is only as sound as what it sits on, and take care of any repair before anything goes up. We frame the walls and fill the openings with glass or clear panels. We spend the most care on the parts you won't look at much once it's done, where the room meets the floor and where it ties into the house, because that's where water finds its way in. I'll also tell you plainly what the frame is made of and why we chose it for your room.

If you'd like shade but still want the patio open to the yard, patio cover installation may be all you need. If you want glass overhead as well as on the sides, for all the daylight you can get, look at solarium installation instead.

Riverside's Building & Safety office takes building permit applications. The forms depend on what the job covers, and the counter staff can answer questions about yours. When your job needs a permit, we find out which office covers your address, prepare and file the paperwork and meet the inspector on site, and I'll tell you what we know and what's still up to the city or county. The other thing that changes the plan here is heat. California's energy guidance counts adding heating to an unheated space as an addition rather than an alteration when it adds conditioned floor area and volume, so a room heated a few years after it's built gets treated like new living space. That's the reason I ask about heat before we plan anything.

Most patios we close in around here are slabs poured when the house was built, often with an older cover over them, and the joint where the slab meets the stucco wall gets extra time from us. We see the same kind of back patios on jobs in Moreno Valley and Corona.