Screen room installation in Fontana CA - a patio that keeps bugs out and lets air in
Mosquitoes and flies chasing you off the patio every summer evening? We screen it in so you keep the breeze and lose the bugs.
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Is a screen room the right way to close in your patio?
Screen room installation in Fontana encloses your porch or patio with screens, so you get a shaded, open-air room that keeps bugs out and lets the breeze through, with no windows and no heating or cooling. We're based in Fontana and build them across the cities around it.
Most calls start the same way. You've got a patio you'd use every evening if the bugs would let you, and the question is how much room to build around it. The price moves mostly with the size of the room, whether some openings get windows instead of screen, which screen goes in and whether the roof over your patio can stay, and if there's no roof yet, patio cover installation comes first. The schedule turns on the drawings and whatever the city needs to see, and your estimate comes with a written quote that says what's in the price and what isn't.
How we handle screen room installation
I start by asking how you'll use the room, because screens keep bugs out and let air through but they won't stop the wind, so some openings may be better as windows. Then I look at the slab or deck the walls will sit on and the patio roof they'll sit under, since the new room can only be as square as what's already there. Some makers spell out how to work with an existing roof, and one maker's instructions have the front of it raised several inches above the new wall height and braced before the walls go in, so when we're building a system like that, we follow its steps. After that our crew frames the openings, sets the screen you picked, hangs the door and cleans up before I walk the room with you.
Screens aren't the answer for every patio. If you'd rather have glass all the way around, a patio-to-sunroom conversion builds a closed room on the slab you already have, and if your space is a raised deck, our deck-to-sunroom conversion starts with whether that deck can carry walls.
What to know about screen room installation in Fontana
Permit applications in the city go to Fontana's Building & Safety Department, signed by the contractor you hire, or by you as Owner/Builder if nobody's hired. Whether a screen room on your lot needs a permit is the department's call, so we ask about your address before we set a date, and when the answer is yes, we sign as the contractor and handle the drawings and the back and forth. We also check where your address sits on the State Fire Marshal's fire hazard maps, and if it's in a local responsibility area, the city is who answers questions about that specific spot.
Around here we mostly see single-story houses with a concrete patio out back and a cover already over it, plus the afternoon wind that rolls through most of the year. That wind is why the screens-or-windows talk comes first, and we have the same talk on jobs in Rialto and Rancho Cucamonga.
- Call (909) 346-1870
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–9 PM, Sat–Sun: 7 AM–9 PM
- Fontana, CA 92335
What happens when you call us about a screen room in Fontana
Call or send the form
Tell us roughly how big the patio is and what's bugging you about it, literally or otherwise. We get back to you and set a time for me to come out.
I look at your patio
I check the base, the house and how you want to use the room, and we settle which openings get screen and which get windows. You get a written quote that says what's in the price and what isn't, so nothing shows up later as a surprise.
We handle drawings and permits
When the job needs a permit, we do the drawings and the paperwork and set a schedule that already counts the city's review. Fontana's permit counter is open Monday to Thursday and closed every Friday, which makes a city week four days long, so we plan around it.
We build, then walk it
Our own crew builds the room, and we bring in licensed trades if you want something like an outlet or a fan. When it's done, I walk the finished room with you and we go over every opening and the door.
Why Fontana homeowners call Sunscape for screen rooms
The estimate comes from me
I do the walkthroughs and estimates myself, so the person who hears how you'll use the room is the one who plans it. Nothing you said gets lost between a salesperson and the crew.
Building rooms here since 2013
We've built sunrooms and patio enclosures for 13 years, and before that I ran the schedule for a busy construction company. That's why we plan the whole room before anyone picks up a tool, so the hard conversations happen at your kitchen table and not halfway through the job.
Proof of license in Fontana
Fontana asks every contractor and subcontractor on a job to show proof of both State and City licenses, so go ahead and ask us for ours. We're licensed and fully insured.
If you'd like to talk through screens versus windows for your own patio, send us a note or call (909) 346-1870.
Request an estimateGet a written quote for your screen room
We reply within one business day, and I come out to look at your patio, your house and how you want to use the room. The quote is free on site, comes with no obligation and spells out what's in the price and what isn't.
- Licensed and fully insured.
- Phone
- (909) 346-1870
- Location
- Fontana, CA 92335
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–9 PM, Sat–Sun: 7 AM–9 PM
Questions about screen rooms in Fontana
How much does a sunroom or screen room cost in the Riverside area?
A sunroom in Riverside, California usually costs about $17,000 to $120,000 per job, and that range covers sunrooms as a whole, not screen rooms alone. Larger rooms that need a foundation and have heating and air conditioning fall at the higher end, and a screen room has no heating or cooling at all. Your written quote gives you the number for your own patio.
Will a screen room keep out the wind?
No, screening isn't designed to stop wind, and the thicker the screen strands, the less air gets through. If wind matters to you, plan on window inserts for the openings that take the worst of it and pick your screen thickness with airflow in mind, which is what we sort out at the estimate.
Should I pull the permit myself if my contractor asks me to in Fontana?
If you do, the City of Fontana says you take on the project's liability, including taxes and personal injury. Weigh that risk before you put your name on an application for work someone else is doing. We don't ask homeowners to pull permits for our work.
When does a California contractor need a state license?
California's Contractors State License Board requires a license for anyone who builds or alters a structure on projects that need a building permit, use employee labor, or cost $1,000 or more in labor and materials. Ask any contractor you're considering for their license before you sign anything.
How do I choose between a screen room and a three-season room?
Decide whether your openings get screens alone or windows as well, because that's the main difference. A three-season room or enclosed patio is unheated and uncooled like a screen room, with uninsulated windows or screens, so if you want to shut out some wind but don't need heat or AC, that's usually where it lands.
What is the best way to screen a patio if I have dogs or cats?
Use pet-resistant insect screen, which resists tears and punctures from dogs and cats. It installs the same way as regular insect screen, so we can put it on every opening or just the ones your pets like to lean on.
Other ways to close in your space
Patio-to-sunroom conversion
For when screens aren't enough and you want windows on the patio you already use.
Deck-to-sunroom conversion
For a raised deck you'd like to close in, once we know it can hold the weight of walls.
Start planning your screen room
Send the rough size, whether a patio roof is already up and whether you're leaning toward screens only or some windows, and I'll show up with the right questions already in mind.
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