Sunroom contractor in Vincent, CA - turn your patio or deck into a room
West Covina Sunrooms & Patios is a sunroom contractor based in West Covina, and we build sunrooms, patio enclosures and covers for homes in Vincent (East Irwindale), often turning a backyard patio or deck into a real room.
- Licensed and fully insured.
- Free on-site estimates.
- Expect a reply within 1 business day.
Homes and backyards across Vincent
Vincent is unincorporated Los Angeles County, and the county's own pages call it East Irwindale, so you'll see both names when you look anything up. It's a small, flat area of curving streets and a lot of cul-de-sacs, sitting between Covina to the east, West Covina to the south, Baldwin Park and Irwindale to the west and Azusa to the north. Most of the houses are lived in by the people who own them, and the calls I get from here sound like the ones I get across the area: there's a patio or a deck out back, and you want to use it a lot more than you do.
That street layout shapes the job more than you'd think. Flat ground usually means your patio or deck sits close to the floor of the house, which helps, but a cul-de-sac lot can leave a wedge-shaped backyard and a narrow side yard, so I'm often working out angled walls and how we'll carry glass and framing back there.
Our services in Vincent, CA
- Patio-to-sunroom conversion
Most of the calls we get around here start with a concrete patio that already has a cover, and the question is whether it can become a real room. I check whether that slab and that cover can carry walls and glass before we plan anything, because sometimes the slab is fine and the cover isn't.
- Deck-to-sunroom conversion
Plenty of houses have an older wood deck off the back door that gets used a few times a year. Our deck-to-sunroom conversion work starts with the posts, beams and footings, since a deck built for a barbecue isn't automatically ready to hold a roof and walls.
- Patio enclosures
When a patio already has a solid cover and sits right at the back door, closing in the sides is often the most direct way to a room you'll use. We fill the open sides with windows or panels so you get the space without starting a full addition.
- Patio cover installation
Some homeowners here aren't ready for walls yet and just want a good roof over the slab first. I plan that cover so it can take an enclosure later, because getting the tie-in to your roofline right now saves tearing it off down the road.
- Sunroom additions
Where there's no patio to work from, or the old one is too far gone, we build the room as a true addition on its own foundation. The tricky part is where the new roof meets the old one, and that's the spot I spend the most time on.
- Sunroom remodeling
Some houses already have a sunroom or enclosed patio someone added years ago, and now it leaks at the wall or the panels have gone cloudy. We open up the joint with the house first, since that's usually where the trouble started, and then I tell you whether it's worth fixing or redoing.
What Vincent houses ask of a new sunroom
The spot that matters most on any sunroom is where it meets your house, and on the houses we see around here that usually means a roofline nobody planned a room for, or an old patio cover nailed to the fascia, the board that runs along the edge of the roof. Is that cover carrying its own weight, or leaning on the house? Is your roof shallow enough that the new roof has to tuck under the gutter instead of tying in above it? I'd rather pull back some trim and find out than guess, because a small miss at that joint is how you end up with a leak inside the wall a few years later.
Price mostly follows the size of the room, what it sits on and how much work that roofline takes, and the schedule usually turns on the county permit and its inspections more than on the build. When I come out, I'll look at your house and price it from what I find, and the questions below go into what changes the number.
Get a sunroom estimate for your Vincent home
We'll reply within one business day to set a time, and I'll come out to your place in Vincent myself to look at the patio, deck or roofline and talk it through with you. The estimate is free and done on site, with no pressure and no obligation, and if you go ahead, our small crew does the build with me on site.
Sunrooms and enclosed patios
Vincent sunroom questions answered
Does adding a sunroom in Vincent, CA need a permit?
Most likely, because a sunroom tied to your house is an addition, and additions are on the list of work Los Angeles County Public Works issues permits for in unincorporated areas like Vincent. The county's permit overview also lists electrical work and gives fixing a roof and replacing windows as examples, which matters when the new room's roof ties into yours or the room gets lights and outlets. When your project needs a permit, we take care of the paperwork and the inspections with the county.
How do I find out which office issues building permits for my address in Vincent?
Type your street address or parcel number into the county's permit lookup and click Find Services, and it'll show the Building and Safety office for your area, or another office's contact if that office handles it. Don't let your mailing address throw you, because homes south of Arrow Highway use Covina and 91722 and homes north of it use Azusa and 91702, but you're in unincorporated county either way. If you'd rather skip the lookup, call us at (626) 412-8694 or send your address through our contact form and I'll check it before I come out.
How much of a down payment can a sunroom contractor take in California?
No more than $1,000 or 10 percent of the total contract price, whichever is less. The Contractors State License Board, which licenses contractors in California, says that rule applies to every home improvement project, so it covers a sunroom, a patio enclosure or a deck conversion the same way. We're licensed and fully insured, and the rule covers us like any other contractor you talk to.
How much does it cost to add a sunroom to a house in Vincent?
It comes down mostly to the room's size, whether we can build on your existing slab or deck or need new footings, and what goes in the walls, from screens to glass to insulated panels. A roofline that takes extra work to tie into, lights and outlets, and any rot or damage we find where an old patio cover meets the house all add to it. I'll give you a number for your own house once I've seen it, and I'll tell you which choices would bring it down.
How long does an LA County building permit stay active for a sunroom?
It stays active as long as the inspections keep coming, since the county asks for the first inspection within 12 months of getting the permit and follow-up inspections every 6 months after that. On a sunroom those inspections line up with stages of the build, and we schedule them with the county as we go so the permit stays current.
Can you build a sunroom on the patio slab I already have in Vincent?
Sometimes, but I won't know until I've looked at how thick it is, how it's cracked and how it meets the house. On the flat lots here the slab often sits right at the back door, which helps, but a slab poured only for a patio may need new footings, the concrete that carries the weight, along its edges before it can hold walls and a roof. If I need to drill or dig to be sure, I'll tell you that at the estimate instead of guessing.