Patio-to-sunroom conversion in Long Beach CA - a room built the way we planned it
Your patio sits unused because it's too hot, too windy or full of bugs. We turn it into a real room planned around how you'll use it.
- Fully licensed and insured.
- Free in-person estimates.
- We reply within 1 business day.
What does it take to turn a patio into a sunroom?
A patio-to-sunroom conversion in Long Beach encloses your existing patio slab with walls, glass and a roof so it becomes a room attached to the house, and once that room is heated or cooled, it counts as new living space.
Most people who call us already have a slab out back, and often a patio cover, but they only use it a few weeks a year. The price moves with the size of the room, how much glass you want, whether the slab needs new footings and whether the room gets heating and cooling. The schedule mostly turns on the city's permit review and inspections, plus the time it takes to order your glass and doors. I'll go over all of it at the first visit, and you'll get a written estimate with your own number once we've settled the big choices.
How we handle a patio-to-sunroom conversion
Before I write the estimate, I ask whether you want to keep the doors and windows between your house and the patio, because that one choice changes how the room gets built. A sunroom trade group says a heated or cooled room that keeps those doors in place stays closed off from the house and has its own special requirements, while a room opened up to the house meets the same rules as any other addition. Once that's decided, we check the slab and its edges, frame the walls and roof, set the glass and doors, run whatever wiring or heating the plan calls for, and clean up so the room's ready to furnish.
If your outdoor space is a raised deck and not a slab, a deck-to-sunroom conversion follows the same plan with different work underneath. If you already know you want the room comfortable every month of the year, we'll talk about our all season rooms, which are built for heating and cooling from the start.
Unheated glass room
This suits you if you mostly want shade, a windbreak and a clean spot for a table or plants. It costs less to build and keeps the plan simpler, since there's no heating or cooling to design around.
Heated and cooled living space
This suits you if you want a den, office or dining room you'll use every day. If you're on the fence, I usually point people here, because adding heat later often means reworking walls, glass and wiring.
What a patio-to-sunroom conversion goes through in Long Beach
Long Beach requires a building permit to build or change a structure, and the city's Development Permit Center issues it. When your job needs a permit, we pull it and handle the paperwork with the city, and city planners also check the plans against the zoning code before work starts. The city says extra requirements may apply in historic districts and coastal zones, so I ask about both at the first visit, before design starts, and you know about any added steps up front.
Most patios we convert sit behind single-story houses on older slabs, and the slab's edge and the wall the room joins usually decide more about the build than the glass does. We see the same back patios on jobs in Lakewood and Signal Hill, and we work across the cities around Long Beach, including others nearby without their own page here.
Why Long Beach homeowners call Long Beach Sunrooms & Patios for patio conversions
I do every estimate myself
I come out to every estimate myself, and I started on the sales side before I moved to installs. I saw rooms sold one way and built another, so the plan I write with you is the room our crew builds.
Licensed in California, insured too
We're fully licensed and insured. Long Beach issues contractor permits only to a contractor with a California license and an active Long Beach business license, so that license is what lets us pull your permit at all.
In business since 2021
We've spent five years building sunrooms and patio rooms. That's long enough that I can usually answer the big questions about your patio at the first visit, not send you home with a brochure.
The biggest thing is getting the doors and the heating settled before anyone prices the room. Call (562) 200-7450 or send a request through our contact page, and I'll come out to look at your patio.
Request a quoteGet a written estimate for your patio conversion
We reply within one business day. The estimate is free and in person, with no pressure and no obligation. Once you send this, we'll set a time, I'll come measure your patio and the wall the room joins, and you'll get a written estimate after we've worked through the choices together.
What happens after you ask about a patio conversion?
Call or send a request
We get back to you and set a time for me to come out. It helps to have a rough idea of the patio's size and how you want to use the room.
I measure and walk the choices
I measure, look at the slab and the wall the room will join, and we settle the doors and the heating right there. Then you get a written estimate that lays out the room we talked about, so you know exactly what you're paying for.
We handle permits and inspections
When the job needs a permit, we pull it and take care of the paperwork. Long Beach requires inspections for most home construction, including alterations, so I'll tell you where they fall in the schedule.
Our crew builds the room
Our crew lead and installers build the room while I check in as it goes. When it's done, we clean up and walk it with you so you can see it's the room in your estimate.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a patio-to-sunroom conversion cost in Long Beach?
A sunroom in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $16,000 to $120,000 per job, and that's the market's range, not a quote from us. Larger rooms that need a foundation and come with heating and air conditioning land toward the top, while a simpler unheated room on a sound slab sits lower. Your own number comes from the written estimate after I've seen the patio.
Does heating or cooling a sunroom change the rules in California?
Yes, the state's energy guidance treats enclosing a patio and heating or cooling it as an addition, in the same group as any other room added to a house. A sunroom trade group notes that a room with no heating or cooling is exempt from insulation and air leakage requirements, which is why it's one of the first things we decide. If you think you'll want heat later, tell me at the start, because it shapes the walls, glass and wiring.
Do I need an electrical permit to add outlets and AC to a sunroom in Long Beach?
Yes, Long Beach requires an electrical permit to install or change an electrical system and a mechanical permit for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. So a room with outlets, lights and a heating and cooling unit carries those along with the building permit, and we include them in the paperwork when the plan calls for them.
Who can pull the building permit for a sunroom in Long Beach?
A licensed contractor can, and if you own a one- or two-family house, you can also get the permit yourself under a city eligibility bulletin. Whoever you hire has to be licensed by the state licensing board when the job needs a building permit, uses employees or costs $1,000 or more in labor and materials. On our jobs, we pull the permit so you don't have to.
How do I know if my patio slab can hold a sunroom?
You usually can't tell from the top, because what matters is the footing, the buried concrete base under the slab's edge where the walls will sit. A sunroom trade group says a room on a concrete patio needs continuous footings that reach the frost line, and where an area has no frost depth, footings only as the structure requires. I check the slab and its edges at the first visit, and whatever it needs goes into your estimate.
How do I check a sunroom contract in California before I sign?
Start by making sure it's in writing, since California requires a written contract for home improvement work over $500, with any changes in writing and your right to cancel explained. The state also caps the down payment at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract price, whichever is less, with no exception for special-order materials. If someone asks for more than that up front, that's more than the state allows.
Other ways to add a room out back
Deck-to-sunroom conversion
If your outdoor space is a wood deck instead of a concrete slab, this is the version of the job that fits it.
All season rooms
Pick this if you want a room you'll be just as comfortable in during a cold snap as on a summer afternoon.
Long Beach, CA
Get your patio room planned and priced
Send your patio's rough size, your address and whether you want heating, and I'll come out ready to talk through the right room for your house.