Screen room installation in Riverside, CA - a patio that keeps bugs out and lets air in

Most people who call us already have a slab or a deck out back, often with a roof over it, and they've quit using it once the sun goes down. The price mostly moves with the size of the space, whether there's a sound roof to build under or one has to go up first through our patio cover installation work, how many doors you want and which mesh goes on which wall. The schedule turns on whether the job needs a permit and how long the city takes with it, and on any roof work. Once I've seen it, you get a written estimate with your own number on it.

I start by asking what bothers you most out there, tiny bugs, the dog or hard sun on one wall, because that decides the mesh, and since each choice gives up a little airflow, view or upfront cost, I explain the tradeoff before you pick. Then I look at the parts you won't see once the room is done, what the walls will sit on and how water gets kept out where the room meets the floor and the house. A screen room that looks good the day we leave and lets water run under the bottom of the wall a year later isn't one I want to build. After that our crew builds the walls, sets the screens and doors, and cleans up before we hand it back to you.

Some homeowners want screens now and glass later, and others want a real room from the start. If you'd rather close in the slab you already have with windows and a finished floor, that's a patio-to-sunroom conversion, and if your outdoor space is a raised deck, we do deck-to-sunroom conversion too.

Riverside's Building & Safety Division keeps standard plans that help permits get issued faster, but its list names patio covers and block walls, not screen rooms, so it doesn't settle whether your screen room needs a permit. That's the city's call, and it's the office to ask, which I do for your address before we plan anything. When a job here does use one of the city's standard plans, the build has to follow that plan exactly, and any change means a design drawn for your site by a design professional, so we settle the room's size and layout before choosing which way to go. When your job needs a permit, we prepare and file the paperwork and meet the inspector on site. The city also rates its termite hazard as Very Heavy, which is one more reason I look hard at what the room sits on and keep wood up off the ground where we can.

We're based in Riverside and work in many of the cities around it in Riverside County and San Bernardino County. The calls look a lot alike, a slab out back with a cover already up and one wall that bakes all afternoon, and we see the same setup on jobs in Jurupa Valley and Moreno Valley. If your city isn't on our list, ask us.