Sunrooms
Having a sunroom is your house will allow you to have only the best parts of the outdoors – the light, the view, the plant-life – in your home, while leaving all the undesirable elements – extreme heat or cold, the insects and pests – outside. A sunroom is essentially a room that acts as a greenhouse, allowing in and trapping the sunlight and warmth through its transparent walls and ceiling. Depending on where you live, you might hear sunrooms sometimes referred to as “Florida rooms”, “California rooms”, “atriums” or “patio rooms”; don’t worry, they are all the same room! Structurally speaking, you won’t find any feature in one of those rooms that you can’t find in another. By definition, a sunroom has plenty of glass windows and doors, for that “nearly” outsidyou de effect. Whatever your climate, in whatever season, it will be forever spring in your sunroom!
Renovating your home to incorporate a sunroom will not only offer you additional space for your indoor gardening, but it will also increase the value of your home. Don’t forget – when you enclose any space and extend your air conditioning and electricity into it, you have just increased the temperature-controlled square footage of your home. The windows of a sunroom are not typically outfitted with blinds or shade, however, so be sure to consider this lack of privacy when deciding where to place your new sunroom.
After having decided to build a sunroom onto your home, you will likely discover how many styles and options are available to you. If you are tempted to begin pricing out building materials, be sure you are comparing apples to apples: one company’s sunroom is not always equal to another company’s. While there are many attractive pre-fabricated sunrooms from which to choose, the logistics of pre-fab might not be suitable for your home. In fact, having a sunroom custom-designed and installed might be less expensive than you think. When you consider the steps that must be taken to ensure proper attachment and insulation of a pre-fabricated unit and the dependability of that attachment, it is almost always best to have a sunroom custom designed for your home. This will guarantee the highest possible energy-efficiency of your sunroom.
Rather than building on additional space for a sunroom, you may be considering converting an existing room into a sunroom by replacing plaster walls with glass walls. This would obviously be less expensive than creating an additional room, but be sure to fully consider the sacrifice of the original room. Also determine which walls in your home are load-bearing – you don’t want to mess around with those walls!
The installation or addition of a sunroom in your home is a task best left to an experienced sunroom contractor. The benefit of this experience will be invaluable when determining removal of the home’s original wall, the appropriate insulation and the extension of your home’s foundation. You will also need to be counseled on the advantages and disadvantages of various styles of sunrooms, with specific reference to your surrounding property: if your home is surrounded by lots of large old trees, your contractor might advise you to extend your roofline, rather than create a glass roof for your sunroom. Likewise, if your home is not under cover of trees or other landscaping, your contractor might advise you on a glass roof in order to maximize the effect of your sunroom.
Finding the right sunroom contractor for this job is paramount. Contractors who specialize in the installation or replacement of sunrooms in your area will be well-versed in the demands of your climate, and can help you select the perfect addition for your home. Enclosure Guide’s FREE SUNROOM ESTIMATE QUOTE FORM will help us determine the scope of your project, so that we can send the right contractors to you for a FREE quote or estimate. This FREE SUNROOM ESTIMATE QUOTE FORM is simple, FREE, and holds you to no obligation. After completing this form, you will get a phone call from the Enclosure Guide staff to learn even more about your project.
ADDITIONAL SUNROOM INFORMATION
- When planning your sunroom, decide what the function and use of the sunroom will be.
- The quality of the material and workmanship will make a difference in the longevity of your sunroom.
- Sunrooms are also referred to as "Glass Rooms" or "Patio Rooms".
- Consider whether your sunroom will have air conditioning or heating.
- Many people use their sunroom for an office space or family room. Your sunroom design may need to incorporate electricity into the plan.
- Design your sunroom based on your lifestyle and personality.
- Buying a sunroom is a major purchase and should not be entered into lightly. Sunrooms made of the same material are not always of the same quality.
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