Sunroom contractor in Mission Viejo - turning patios and decks into rooms

Many of the houses we see in Mission Viejo have been here a few decades, with a concrete patio out back and an aluminum patio cover that went up long after the house did. Those covers were built to throw shade, not to hold up walls and glass, and the slab under them was poured for a table and a grill, so I look at both before we talk about what the room will look like. Sometimes they're good to build on, and sometimes reusing them would be like putting a second story on a garden shed.

The ground here rolls, so plenty of lots step down behind the house, and that's where decks and taller footings come in. The city adjusts the standard building rules for local weather, ground and slopes, so we draw your plans to the city's version, not a generic one.

The building official at the city's Building Services issues the permit for building onto a house, so the city's review and inspections set a good part of any sunroom schedule here, along with any association review and the wait on glass. The City of Mission Viejo doesn't require contractors to hold a city business license, so the license worth checking is our state one, and the questions below cover how. We're fully licensed and insured, and when a permit applies we prepare the paperwork and pull it as your contractor. The price moves with the size of the room, the glass and roof you pick, whether your slab or deck can carry it as it is, and whether you want lights, outlets or heating and cooling, and the estimate puts the plan and that price in writing.

Mission Viejo sits right next to Rancho Santa Margarita, where we're based, so getting out to measure is a short trip for me. Glass and framing arrive on a trailer, so we plan deliveries around your driveway, especially on cul-de-sacs and steeper streets with little room to park. We do the same work just north in Lake Forest and over in Ladera Ranch, where the houses are newer but the questions about heat and how the room gets used are the same.

Mission Viejo is mostly neighborhoods of single-family homes and townhomes, laid out street by street over rolling hills, with shopping along the bigger roads. People here spend a lot of time outdoors, at the lake, where North Beach is for association members and their invited guests, or out on the Oso Creek Trail, and what they usually ask us for is a room at home that keeps some of that outdoor feel without the bugs and the wind.

Next door in Laguna Niguel we see similar houses, but here the mix of older slab patios and decks on sloped lots shapes most jobs, because what the room sits on decides how we build it.