Screen rooms, sunrooms and pool enclosures

A screen room turns a slab or a deck into space you can actually sit in — shade, airflow, and no insects. The frame goes up, the screen goes in, and a door gets set wherever the traffic actually runs.

Most screen rooms are straightforward. The variables are the roof over it, what the existing slab will carry, and whether the enclosure attaches to the house or stands on its own.

A sunroom is a bigger step than a screen room. Glass instead of screen means a conditioned or semi-conditioned space, which brings in structure, permitting, and often electrical work.

These are worth doing when the room is going to be used year round. They are worth thinking twice about when what you actually wanted was shade and a breeze.

Enclosures grow. A screen room becomes a sunroom, a sunroom needs air conditioning, air conditioning needs a circuit, and a circuit needs a permit. Each step is reasonable on its own and the total is often well past where the conversation started.

So Midstate starts these jobs by working out what you actually want the space for, and what that costs, before anything gets drawn. Sometimes the answer is a simple screen room. Sometimes the money is better spent on replacement windows or a new sliding glass door first.

Either way you will get a straight answer rather than a bigger proposal.