All Season Rooms in El Monte CA - a room you can heat, cool and live in
If your patio is too hot in August and too chilly on winter evenings, we'll build a room you can heat, cool and use all year.
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Is an all season room the right choice for your El Monte home?
An all season room is an enclosed room built onto your house that you can heat, cool and use as living space all year, and in El Monte that means it's built to the city's rules for a habitable room. For most homeowners here, it turns a patio or deck that sits empty much of the year into a room the family actually uses.
The first choice to make is whether you want to heat or cool the room, because El Monte won't let a patio enclosure be used as living space, so a heated or cooled room has to be planned as a habitable room from the start. Those rules cover the foundation, framing, insulation, energy efficiency, light, ventilation, outlets and switched lighting, and each one shapes both the plans and the budget. The price moves mostly with the size of the room, the foundation it needs, the windows and the heating and cooling, while the schedule turns on settling the design and getting the plans through the city. Your written estimate gives you the figure for your own room, and I'd rather explain a choice twice now than have you surprised by it later.
How we build an all season room
Because an all season room is a real room, I plan the insulation, windows and heating and cooling before anything else, so the walls and roof are built around them instead of patched later. Our crew then lays out and pours the foundation, frames the walls and roof, insulates, sets the windows and doors, runs the outlets and switched lighting, and finishes the inside so it feels like the rest of your house. I'm particular about the spot where our roof ties into yours, because that joint is where water finds its way in when it's rushed, so we take our time there.
If what you really want is a sunny spot you don't plan to heat or cool, I'll tell you so and save you the larger build, and one of our enclosed patio rooms may suit you better. If you'd like glass overhead as well as on the walls, we can talk through solarium installation as part of the same design.
What El Monte asks of an all season room
In El Monte, the Building Department is the main contact for plan review, permits and inspections, and its counter staff will tell you which other city departments your project involves. How your room is classified is theirs to decide, so if you're unsure whether you're building an enclosure or a habitable room, please check with them. A room sent in for a permit now has to be drawn to the current state building codes, and the city places El Monte in Climate Zone 9, the zone the state's energy rules look to when they set how efficient the windows and doors on an addition must be. The city also sets an earthquake design category and a wind speed for buildings here, and a soils report for your property can set the earthquake category instead, so we draw the foundation and framing to whichever one applies.
We're based in El Monte and work in many of the cities around it, and a lot of the houses we see are single-story homes with a slab patio or small deck out back that's ready to become a room. We meet the same kind of house and the same summer sun on jobs in Rosemead and Temple City, and we plan the glass and shade for it the same way.
- Call (626) 416-2088
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–9 PM, Sat–Sun: 7 AM–9 PM
- El Monte, CA 91731
What happens after you call about an all season room?
Call us to set a visit
When you call (626) 416-2088, we set a time for me to come out and look at your patio, deck or wall. Please have a rough idea of how you'd like to use the room, since that decides most of what follows.
I measure and write it up
I measure, hear how you'll use the space and then write up an estimate. It shows what the room will include, from the foundation to the windows and the heating and cooling, and what it will cost.
Settle the design and permit
We settle the design together, and when the job calls for a permit, we prepare and handle the paperwork with the city. We keep you posted at each step, so you know where the plans stand.
Our crew builds the room
Our own crew builds the room, and since the city's inspections need 24 hours' notice and run Monday through Thursday, we book each one ahead to keep the work moving. When it's done, I walk through the finished room with you.
Why El Monte homeowners call Viewcraft for an all season room
I measure every room myself
I come out myself to look at the job, measure and talk it through, and our own crew does the building. The person who heard how you'll use the room is the same one answering for how it's built.
In business since 2017
We've been building sunrooms and patio enclosures since 2017, nine years now. That's long enough to know which choices families are glad they made and which ones they'd change.
Licensed and fully insured
We're licensed and fully insured, and I'm glad to talk about it at the first visit, before you see any number. Please ask, because it's one of the first things you should know about anyone building onto your house.
Plans drawn for El Monte review
We draw each room to the window and earthquake requirements the city sets here before the plans go in for review. That way you're less likely to wait on a round of corrections before the work can start.
If you're weighing a heated room against a simple enclosure, please send us a few details and I'll come out to talk it through with you.
Request an estimateGet a free on-site estimate for your all season room
We respond within 1 business day to set a time for me to come out, measure and hear how you'd like to use the room. The quote is free, there's no pressure to book, and your written estimate follows that visit.
- Licensed and fully insured.
- Phone
- (626) 416-2088
- Location
- El Monte, CA 91731
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–9 PM, Sat–Sun: 7 AM–9 PM
Questions about all season rooms in El Monte
Can I heat or cool a patio enclosure in El Monte?
No. In El Monte, a patio enclosure can't be used as living space, so it can't be heated or cooled. An enclosure keeps at least 65% of its longest wall and one other wall open below 6 feet 8 inches, closed only with insect screening, thin plastic or glass that meets the residential code, and the city's Building Department decides how your own room is classified.
How much does an all season room cost near Los Angeles?
A sunroom addition in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $25,000 to $65,000 for a room of 200 square feet. That's the area's going range for the work, not our price, and where your room lands depends on the size, foundation, windows and heating and cooling. Your free on-site estimate gives you the figure for your room.
How do I get a permit for an all season room in El Monte?
Permits for a room like this go through El Monte's Building Department, which handles plan review, permits and inspections and will point you to any other city department your project involves. When you hire us, we take care of that paperwork for you.
Does my contractor need a state license to build a sunroom in California?
Yes, in most cases. California's Contractors State License Board requires a license when a project needs a building permit, uses employee labor or totals $1,000 or more, and a heated and cooled room addition will usually meet at least one of those. A home improvement contractor also has to be licensed before submitting a bid, so it's fair to ask at the first visit.
How do I keep an all season room cool in an El Monte summer?
Start with where the glass faces, since federal guidance for warm climates favors north-facing windows and well-shaded south-facing ones. Overhangs, landscaping, shutters and solar window screens all help cut the heat coming through windows in full sun, and we'll talk through which ones fit your yard when I come out.
Do I need solar panels on an all season room addition in California?
The state's own guidance on its Energy Code says the solar panel requirements exclude additions and alterations. Adding a room doesn't by itself bring in those solar rules, though the room still has to meet the Energy Code's efficiency rules for additions.
Other rooms you might be weighing
Enclosed patio rooms
A good fit when you want screens or glass around the patio and don't plan to heat or cool the space.
Solarium installation
For homeowners who want glass overhead as well as on the walls, so the room fills with daylight.
Tell us how you'd use the room
Send your address, the room size you have in mind and whether you plan to heat or cool it, so I can come out ready to measure.
Request an estimateCall (626) 416-2088