All season rooms in Eastvale CA - a glass room that stays comfortable all year

Most people who call me have a patio out back they'd use a lot more with walls, glass and a thermostat. The first thing I ask is how you picture using it, because a reading room, a home office and a playroom each point to a different room. The price moves with the size, whether the room needs its own foundation, how much glass goes in and how it's heated and cooled. The schedule depends mostly on settling the design and getting the plans approved, since nothing gets built until both are done. Your estimate at home is where you get the number for your own room.

I start at your house, looking at where the room will sit and asking how you'll use it. That settles the first big choice, which is whether the room opens straight into the house or stays closed off with its own heating and cooling. Next we plan the insulation for the walls, floor and roof and pick the windows, since a room like this stays only as comfortable as its walls and roof let it. Then we size the cooling for all that glass and not just the floor area, because a room full of windows takes on far more heat than a bedroom with the same footprint. Once the plans are drawn and approved, our installers build the room and I check in on site as it goes up, so the room we planned together is the room you get.

Not every backyard needs a fully heated and cooled room, and I'd rather tell you that before you spend the money. If you mostly want shade and a break from wind and bugs, enclosed patio rooms can be the simpler fit. If you want glass overhead as well as on the walls, ask me about solarium installation.

A few steps come before we build anything here. Many Eastvale lots sit in a planned residential development, or PRD. For those lots, the PRD's own rules set the setbacks, lot size and other standards your room has to meet, and the city asks owners to check the PRD rules for their lot, so I ask for yours early. The city's Planning Department answers zoning questions about any Eastvale property at 951-703-4460. For an addition covered by California's energy standards, the state requires certificates of compliance, approved by the local building department, before a building permit is issued. The permit itself comes from the city's Building Safety team, which reviews the plans and inspects the work as it goes. You can reach its permits line at 951.703.4450 or permits@eastvaleca.gov. When your job needs a permit, we put the paperwork together, submit it to the office for your address and meet the inspector for each visit.

We're based in Eastvale and work in the cities around it, in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. A lot of the houses we see have a covered patio on a concrete slab out back. It's the same on jobs in Jurupa Valley and Ontario, so one of the first things I check is whether that slab can hold a finished room or whether it needs a new foundation.