Sunroom additions in Manhattan Beach CA - a bright room built on a sound base
Your patio sits empty most of the year and the house feels a room short. We plan and build a sunroom you'll actually use.
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What goes into adding a sunroom to a Manhattan Beach home?
A sunroom addition is a one-story room attached to your house, with glass making up a large share of its walls and roof. For Manhattan Beach homeowners, it usually turns a patio or deck you rarely sit on into a bright room you'll use far more often.
Most people who call us have a patio or deck they hardly use and want it turned into a real room, and if that's you, a patio-to-sunroom conversion is often where it starts. The price moves mostly with the size of the room, whether the patio or deck underneath can carry it or needs replacing, whether you want it heated or cooled, and the glass, roof and flooring you choose. The schedule turns on the permit process for your address and on any base work, and the written estimate after my visit gives you your own figure and the plan behind it.
How we build a sunroom addition
I start by looking at the patio or deck the room will sit on and telling you plainly whether it can be used as it is or needs replacing, because everything above it depends on that base. Early in the design, we also work through how the room will meet California's Energy Code, which sets energy, water efficiency and indoor air quality requirements for additions as well as new homes. Then our crew builds it in order, from the footings the room rests on through the framing, the roof, the metal flashing that keeps water out where the room meets the house, the glass, the electrical and the flooring.
The older national model code wording is a useful guide to the terms here. It describes a fully enclosed sunroom designed to be heated or cooled and open to the main house, and if that's the room you want, we plan its heating or cooling into the design and build it as one of our four season sunrooms. If you'd rather close the room off and use it in the milder months, our three season sunrooms usually fit better.
Building on your current patio or deck
This suits a patio or deck that's level, sound and in good shape, because the room sits right on it and takes on whatever flaws it has. It usually keeps the base work, and the cost that comes with it, smaller.
Building on a new slab or deck
This suits a base that's cracked, sunken or worn, or a yard with nothing to build on yet. It adds work up front, but the room starts on something we know is right.
What a sunroom addition goes through in Manhattan Beach
Every sunroom addition in Manhattan Beach goes through the city before we build. The city's Building and Safety division issues permits for any construction or remodel project, and its list names patio covers and decks but not sunrooms, so the list alone doesn't settle what yours needs. Before work starts, we check with the office that covers your address and then prepare and file the permits it calls for. If your home sits inside the city's Coastal Zone, the city requires a coastal permit for all projects there unless a project is exempted or excluded. And because a sunroom addition adds size to your house, the city requires at least 65% of the job's waste to be recycled, so we sort it as we go.
Close to the water, salt air and damp mornings are hard on hardware and on the seams where a room meets the house, so we take extra care with fasteners and flashing. We're based in Manhattan Beach and work across the South Bay, and we see the same conditions on jobs in Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach.
Why Manhattan Beach homeowners call us for sunroom additions
The owner plans every room
I come out to look at every job, measure and plan the room myself, and our own crew does the building. You deal with the same people from the first conversation to the finished room.
Licensed and fully insured
We're licensed and fully insured. A sunroom addition is framed and roofed onto your house, so it's work you want done by a contractor who carries both.
Building rooms here since 2023
I learned this trade building patio covers and enclosures, came back to it after other work, and started this business in Manhattan Beach in 2023. I plan around the city's permit and coastal steps from the first visit, because I want you to understand what you're getting before you sign.
The base under the room is where this job goes right or wrong, so that's the best place to start. Send us a request or call (424) 290-8610, and thank you for considering us.
Request a quoteGet a written estimate for your sunroom addition
Send the form and we'll reply within one business day to set up a time for me to come out. The on-site estimate is free, and there's no pressure to book. You'll get a written estimate after the visit, so you can take your time with it.
What happens after you call about a sunroom addition
Call or send a request
Call (424) 290-8610 or fill in the form, and we'll get back to you to set up a visit. We'll find a time that works around your week.
I measure and plan
I come out myself to measure, look closely at what the room will sit on and talk through the room you have in mind. You then get a written estimate showing what the room includes and whether the base can stay, so the price makes sense before you sign.
We file permits and build
We take care of the permit paperwork, then our crew builds in stages, from the base up through the frame, roof and glass. Manhattan Beach allows construction on weekdays and Saturdays and not on Sundays or city holidays, so we won't be working at your house on those days.
Walk the finished room
When the room is finished, we walk through it with you before we call it done. That's your time to ask questions and point out anything you'd like looked at again.
Frequently asked questions
What does a sunroom addition cost near Manhattan Beach?
A sunroom addition of about 200 square feet in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $23,000 to $66,000 for the whole job. Where yours lands depends mostly on the size, whether the base needs replacing and whether the room is heated or cooled. The written estimate after my visit gives you your own figure.
Do I need a city permit for a sunroom in Manhattan Beach?
Plan on checking with the city, because its Building and Safety division issues permits for any construction or remodel project and its list names patio covers and decks but not sunrooms. We check with the office that covers your address and file whatever the job calls for, and the coastal permit and recycling rules described above may apply too.
Can a sunroom go on my existing patio?
Sometimes, if the patio is in like-new condition. One sunroom maker's installation guide prefers a new slab or deck and says a base with many buckles or cracks isn't suitable and could lead to leaks later, so a worn patio may mean budgeting for a new one. I'll look at yours on the first visit.
Which contractor license covers a room addition in California?
A B General Building contractor can take on a room addition. The Contractors State License Board says a B General Building contractor may contract for projects that include roofing, such as a room addition, and a sunroom is framed and roofed onto your house.
How long does a sunroom addition take in Manhattan Beach?
The time runs mostly on two things, how long the permit process takes for your address and whether the base needs replacing before we build. Once permits are in hand, we build in stages on the days the city allows, and I'll talk through the schedule with you when you get your estimate.
How do I take care of a sunroom once it's built?
Check the roof and gutters once a year. One maker's homeowner guide suggests that yearly inspection and advises keeping activity on the sunroom roof to what's necessary, so skip climbing up there unless you have to.
Other rooms we build
Four season sunrooms
For a glass room that stays comfortable through the cooler months and feels like part of the house.
Three season sunrooms
For a sheltered, bright spot to sit in the milder months without adding heating or cooling.
Manhattan Beach, CA
Send photos and book your sunroom visit
If you have a few photos of your patio or deck and a sense of whether you want the room heated or cooled, call (424) 290-8610 or email projects@manhattanbeachsunroomsandpatios.com so I can come out prepared.