Sunroom Contractor in Garden Grove, CA - Rooms Built on Patios You Already Have

In most cases, yes. The city's Building & Safety Division lists building or altering a structure among its common examples of work that needs a permit, along with electrical work and replacing windows, and most sunrooms involve all three. If you're unsure about a smaller job like a screen room, the division is the place to ask before anything gets built.

Either one can, since the city lets the property owner or the owner's authorized agent get the permit, but when a contractor does the work the city says it's wise to have the contractor obtain it. We pull the permits our jobs need and handle the paperwork for you. Once a permit is issued, it expires if work doesn't start within 180 days or stops for 180 days, so we plan the build around it.

A contractor can ask for no more than $1,000 or 10 percent of the total contract price, whichever is less, as a down payment on a home improvement job in California. That cap comes from the Contractors State License Board, which licenses and regulates contractors across the state, and a sunroom falls under it like any other home improvement. We're licensed and insured, and your price comes in the written estimate after I see the job.

You usually can't tell from the top, so I check the slab's thickness, its edges and any cracking at the visit before we plan a room on it. Most older patio slabs were poured for furniture and foot traffic, not walls and a roof, so many need new footings along the edges and some are better replaced. Sometimes we only know for sure once we open up an edge, and if that changes the plan, I'll tell you before we go further.

Choose the roof and room type for the sun your spot gets, because the roof does most of the work. On a patio that takes afternoon sun, I'd lean toward an insulated panel roof over a glass one, and a four season room if you want to use it year round. A full glass roof looks good, but it's the version most likely to leave you with a room you only use in the morning.

The city has a business license form for exactly that case, a business like a contractor that works in Garden Grove but is based in another city. We're based in Placentia, so that's the form that covers us when we build here.