Sunroom contractor in Whittier - glass rooms built on solid ground

The city's own findings say this corner of the county sees more high wind, earthquakes and fire than much of California, and a sunroom feels all of that because it's mostly glass on a light frame. We tie the frame into a base that can take the pull, so on most Whittier jobs I'm checking the slab or footings before anyone talks about windows.

Many of the patios we look at here were poured decades ago as a place for a grill, not a wall of glass. They're often thin, cracked or sloped back toward the house, which is fine for a lawn chair and not much else. When a slab won't hold, I tell you, and we add footings, the deeper concrete pads that carry the walls, or pour new before the room goes up. On the hillside lots to the north, the same question applies to deck posts.

Inside city limits, the city's Building & Safety Division issues the permit for a sunroom. In the unincorporated South Whittier-Sunshine Acres and West Whittier-Los Nietos areas, LA County Public Works issues it, so the first thing I do is look up which office handles your address. Either way, the permit comes before the building, and that review sets the front of the schedule. The city also requires a city business license from anyone working in Whittier, even a contractor based outside it, and it checks the contractor's state license number on that application, so ask anyone you're considering for both. We're licensed and fully insured, and when your job needs a permit, we handle the paperwork and work through the inspections with you.

The price mostly comes down to what the room sits on, how much glass you want and what kind, whether it's a three season room or one you heat and cool all year, and any electrical you add. The schedule turns on the permit review and on whether the base needs work first. Your written estimate gives you your own figures. Whittier is a short drive from our base in Hacienda Heights, and we do the same work on similar houses in El Monte and Norwalk.

Whittier is older than most of the cities around it, and you see that on our jobs. The streets near Uptown have houses that go back a long way, the flatter south and west sides are mostly postwar tracts with slab patios out back, and the hills to the north have bigger lots that drop away behind the house. Each kind brings a different starting point for a sunroom.

It sits right beside Hacienda Heights, where we're based, so the ground and the houses are familiar. Old slabs on the flats and raised decks on the slopes decide most of what a Whittier sunroom job looks like before the glass ever shows up.