Sunroom additions in Irvine CA - a room built for the way you'll use it
If your patio sits unused most of the year, we can add a sunroom that joins your house and fits how you actually live.
What does a sunroom addition in Irvine involve?
A sunroom addition in Irvine adds a new room onto your house, with glass or solid panels for the walls and roof, so you get a bright space you'll sit in instead of a patio you walk past. It's usually built on standard wood framing or a factory-made frame of aluminum, fiberglass or wood, and tied into the house so it feels like part of it.
Most people who call us have a patio, a deck or a side yard they hardly use, and they want a room that does more. The price mostly moves with the size of the room, whether it needs a new foundation, whether it's heated and cooled, and how well the windows and walls are insulated. The schedule turns on approvals more than building, because the city's permit and usually your HOA's review come before our crew starts. If you already have a covered patio, a patio-to-sunroom conversion can sometimes use what's there, and your written estimate shows exactly what your own room includes.
How we build your sunroom addition
I start every sunroom addition with one question, how you'll use the room, because that answer decides the room type and how the new space joins your house. If you want it used like the rest of the house, open to the living room and comfortable in August, we plan a heated and cooled room, which an industry sunroom specification counts as habitable, lived-in space, with windows built to keep out air and water leaks. We settle the insulation plan before construction starts, because good windows and insulation in the walls, floor and roof go in far more easily during the build, and adding them later can often cost more. Then our crew sets what the room sits on, builds the frame, ties the roof and walls into the house and installs the windows and doors before we clean up.
Nearly every addition ends up as one of two rooms. A four season sunroom is the one to pick if you want a true extra room you'll use all year, and a three season sunroom suits a room you'll mostly use on mild days and evenings.
Sunroom addition permits and lot rules in Irvine
An addition in Irvine goes through the city, and the city's addition application asks for an engineer's structural calculations, energy calculations and a copy of the design plans your HOA approved. If you're in an HOA, it will likely have its own approval process, so we look over its rules before design starts and help you put together what it asks to see. Once the HOA signs off, we take care of the permit steps with the city.
Your lot decides how big the room can be and where it can go. Side setbacks, the open space kept beside the house, are typically five feet in Irvine and can be more on corner lots, next to non-residential property and in Shady Canyon, while the rear setback is typically 10 feet but varies. If the room reaches into an existing side yard or comes within a foot of a required front or rear setback, the city wants a survey signed by a California-licensed land surveyor or civil engineer, so I look at where those lines fall on the first visit. We plan around the same kind of tight yards and HOA review on jobs in Tustin and Lake Forest.
How a sunroom addition works
Call or send the form
Call (949) 543-1630 or send the form with a few words about the space and what you want the room for. We'll set a time to come out.
I look at the space myself
I come out to see the space, what the room will sit on and how it will tie into your house, and we go through the options right there. Bring your questions, because this is where we sort out heated against unheated.
Get your estimate in writing
You get a written estimate in plain words that spells out the room type, windows and insulation we talked about, so you know what you're paying for before you decide. When the project calls for it, we handle the permit steps with the city.
Our crew builds the room
Our own crew does the build, and I check in along the way. When it's done, I walk the finished room with you.
Get a written estimate for your sunroom addition
We reply within one business day to set a time for me to come see the space. The estimate is free, done at your property, and there's no pressure to book.
Questions before you book a sunroom addition
How much does a sunroom addition cost in Orange County?
A sunroom in Orange County usually costs about $17,000 to $120,000 per project, going by regional estimates, and that's the market's range for the whole room, not our price. Larger rooms that need a foundation and come with heating and air conditioning land at the high end of it. Your written estimate gives you the figure for your own room.
What is the best way to choose between a four-season and a three-season sunroom?
Choose by how you'll use the room. A four-season room is fully enclosed, heated and cooled, with all-weather windows, so it works like the rest of the house, while a three-season room has no heating or cooling and uses uninsulated windows or screens. If you picture using it on chilly evenings or hot afternoons, that points to four-season.
Does California treat a sunroom addition as home improvement work?
Yes, California's contractor law counts adding onto a home, porches and patios included, as home improvement. Home improvement contractors are licensed by the Contractors State License Board, so that's the license to ask any contractor about before you sign.
Is my Irvine neighborhood in the new fire hazard zone?
It may be if you live in Orchard Hills, Woodbury, Portola Springs, Quail Hill, Turtle Rock, Laguna Altura, Los Olivos or Irvine Spectrum, because the city's updated map expands the zones into those areas. Major renovations in these zones have to comply with building and fire code requirements, so check your address on the city's fire hazard map and tell us what you find at the visit.
Will a sunroom addition in Irvine add school fees?
It can if the room is 500 square feet or larger, because Irvine assesses School Facilities Fees on additions that size. When we sketch the room, we'll look at where your plan lands against that line.
How do I keep sunroom doors and windows sliding smoothly?
One sunroom maker's guide recommends a pure silicone spray, because oil-based lubricants tend to attract dirt. The same guide says to keep the weep holes, the small openings along the frame, clear so water can drain out.
Why Irvine homeowners call Daylight Irvine Sunrooms & Patios for sunroom additions
The owner writes your estimate
I come out myself to look at the space and put the estimate together, so the person answering your questions is the one who stands behind the plan. Our own crew builds the room, and I check in while they work.
Building sunrooms since 2017
I learned the trade on patio and sunroom crews before starting this business in Irvine in 2017, and most of our calls come from Irvine families turning a patio, a deck or a tired old sunroom into a room they'll use. That's the kind of job we know best.
Licensed and fully insured
We're licensed and fully insured. An addition opens up a wall of your house, so you want the people doing it covered if something goes wrong.
Every choice explained before signing
I'd rather spend an extra half hour at your kitchen table going over a heated room against an unheated one than have you surprised after it's built. Once the glass is in, that choice is hard to undo.
The room type is the decision that shapes everything else, so let's settle it together before anything gets built. Request your estimate or call (949) 543-1630.
Room types for your addition
Four season sunrooms
For a room you'll want to sit in on a cold January night or a hot afternoon, heated and cooled like the rest of the house.
Three season sunrooms
For a lighter room that gives you shade and fresh air on Irvine's mild days without the heating and cooling.
Start planning your Irvine sunroom addition
Call Daylight Irvine Sunrooms & Patios at (949) 543-1630 or send the form with your HOA rules, a rough room size and the room type you're leaning toward, and we can get much further on the first visit.
