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Whether it's an energetic game night with friends, romantic evening with your special someone, or a cozy family night, a sunroom provides an excellent space for every situation. Add space to your home. Add more value. 4 - season room add-ons. Sunrooms are the best add-a-room option for home improvement. If you got a view, you got to get to the Sunroom to show it off and comfortably enjoy the beauty of every four seasons. Some insist that, by its name and nature, “sunroom” implies a regular room, albeit one that focuses on the outdoors, suitable for year-round occupancy when a three-season screen room won’t do.
A Sunroom is often called a Solarium, and both is a room that provides an abundant daylight while sheltering from adverse weather conditions. Solarium is Latin for a place of sunlight.
What is the difference between a Sunroom and a Solarium? A Solarium has a translucid roof much like a greenhouse that allows more sunlight to come through its roof but with that you got a lot more heat that is allowed to enter the area as well. Porch upgrades, which took off during the stay-at-home pandemic years, remain a popular project — part of the trend towards expanding and enhancing the living space of the home.
A Sunroom has a conventional solid top roof structure that prevents most of the heat from entering the area. In the Southern region of the U.S that is most important. Normally in a pitched type of roof design in a form of a single slopped design or a double pitched cable style or a hip formed roof design.
So, we do not see very many Solariums but within a commercial growing operation or a greenhouse use. or a restaurant or commercial use.
These pinched type roofs designs can be custom built from traditional framing methods, or they can be built from the structural insulated panels (SIP)are a strong building panels have been used by the sunroom and cold storage industry for many years, but they are becoming a more mainstream building panel in recent years all in the name of energy saving. The SIPs don't allow the heat of the sun energy to transfer though the building panels like conventional stick framing does. SIPs are 7 times stronger and 20 times more airtight than stick framing methods that we are used to. We build a lot of different projects today using the SIP panels today. We even build most of our open-air patio covers and screen and sunroom using the SIP panels for the roofs. SIPs are also used in the Sunrooms walls as well as traditional framing methods.
The whole goal of a sunroom is to keep the area cool so that you can use the area and be confrontable while having an open view of the landscape.
Most sunroom are custom built, and some are designed and to engineered by a manufacturer of aluminum extrusions that is made for the sunroom industry. These specialty building products or a kit or they are custom built. We are farmers by trade that builds all shape, sizes and styles and designs. We deal directly with the customers and cut out the middlemen with his real high markups, overhead and sales commissions and provided you with most of the very same products that they use.
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Things to consider when building a sunroom is just like a standard room edition. Budget has everything to do with what size and type of sunroom that you can build - Architectural & Engineering - Plains and Permits Surface - Type of surface to be built on. Type of roof - Cable or Single sloped design - Framing & Walls - Doors and Knee walls. Glass - Windows & Doors - Transom See high performance glass section within to learn more. Exterior Cladding - Brick, Smart board, OSB plywood, Vinyl siding, Aluminum etc. Insulation - Spray foam or baton insulation. Electrical - Wall, Roof, lighting, heat and air Lighting - license electrical contractor Heat and Air - Done by a heat and air contractor. Interior cladding - Sheetrock or other cladding surfaces. Painting - Done by a painting contractor. Flooring - Tile, carport, wood etc.
Structural insulated panels have been used within the Sunroom industry for numerous years. Within the Sunroom industry the SIPs have been normally cladded with an aluminum cladded metal on both sides because aluminum is a strong metal that will not rust.
The SIPs are a very strong highly energy efficient wall or roof framing panel and are becoming more mainstream and used more within the framing industry of today. These 4-ft or 2FT wide construction panels also used in the cold storage business and are now available with several different surface cladding such as OSB plywood and steel with different finishes and profiles are manufactured now. Today the housing market is recognizing the benefit of using the SIPs.
There are numerous different building products that are used in any one build of a sunroom. Most are wanting to take an existing concrete slab and add on to their home for more room and add functionality. It does start with the concrete slab that must be in good condition. without any cracks. Once the slab or slab addition is poured then you're ready to forward with the plan. Always make a plan or you plan to fail.
Designing a sunroom can be a fun and creative process. Here are some tips to get you started:
Plains and Permits Surface - Type of surface to be built on. Type of roof - Cable or Single sloped design - Framing & Walls - Doors and Knee walls. Glass - Windows & Doors - Transom See high performance glass section within to learn more. Exterior Cladding - Bricks and or the Smart board, OSB plywood, Vinyl siding, Aluminum etc. Insulation - Spray foam or baton insulation. Electrical - Wall, Roof, lighting, heat and afir Lighting - license electrical contractor Heat and Air - Done by a heat and air contractor. Interior cladding - Sheetrock or other cladding surfaces. Painting - Done by a painting contractor. Flooring - Tile, carport, wood etc.
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Plains and Permits Surface - Type of surface to be built on. Type of roof - Cable or Single sloped design - Framing & Walls - Doors and Knee walls. Glass - Windows & Doors - Transom See high performance glass section within to learn more. Exterior Cladding - Brick, Smart board, OSB plywood, Vinyl siding, Aluminum etc. Insulation - Spray foam or baton insulation. Electrical - Wall, Roof, lighting, heat and afir Lighting - license electrical contractor Heat and Air - Done by a heat and air contractor. Interior cladding - Sheetrock or other cladding surfaces. Painting - Done by a painting contractor. Flooring - Tile, carport, wood etc.
We offer a wide range of construction services, including commercial and residential construction, remodeling, and renovations. Our team of experts can help you with your project from start to finish. Contact us today to discuss your project wants and needs.
We are your local experienced professional tradesman and craftsman that are uniquely qualified and experienced in framing with numerous different building materials including wood stick framing and the advanced structural insulated panels that most sunrooms and cold storage building are built from. Today we also do have recent past within the fenestration business which is the window and door business. After all any construction of any type of any building starts with a square, Stright and plum frame. We are known as A Better Construction Company (Old Pro Framing) that dba Carport and Patio Covers of Oklahoma.
The windows used in a sunroom build are most important. It can a difference between using the sunroom and not. The heat and the sun rays can pernitrate though standard glass glazing's. With the more advanced glass glazing they are specially design with several different coating that can block some of the heat and the UV rays from entering the structure making it more livable. There are many different coatings applied to different glazing depending on what regional territory of the country that you're at. Here in Oklahoma, we are in a warmer clement, so we want to keep the heat out of the structure, so we use a glass with a lower in the solar heat gain for cooling purposes. Double or Triple silver coatings on the flat glass that we can't see helps with the flat glass in reflecting the sun's rays. There is also an argon gas that is filled between the window glass glazing that will help the glass performance in any sunroom applications.
There are just a limited few number of glass manufactures that build all the glass for every window manufacturer offering in the industry. A window manufacturer will offer different glazing options when purchasing a window and that is supplied to them from a glass manufacturer. Then the window company will cut the flat glass as needed and build a window to your order size and specifications.
Any window installed below 30 inches must be made of tempered glass. The glazing on the window surface is most important when building any Sunroom. It can make the difference between using the Sunroom or not using it because it gets too hot.
There are truly endless possibilities with numerous different construction and building materials when building any sunroom. Glass solarium kits are normally for certain purposes and are susceptible to the hail that we get within the region. Also, the more glass the more heat will enter the area even using the best high-performance windows of today. Roof and wall insulation and windows are really important when building any room, but it can make the difference between using the added room or not.
Window performance is everything in a sunroom build. The National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) operates a voluntary program that tests, certifies, and labels windows, doors, and skylights based on their energy performance ratings. The NFRC label provides a reliable way to determine a window's energy properties and to compare products. The NFRC label can be found on all ENERGY STAR® qualified window, door, and skylight products, but ENERGY STAR bases its qualification only on U-factor and solar heat gain coefficient ratings, which are described below.
Heat Gain and Loss
Windows, doors, skylights can gain and lose heat through: Direct conduction through the glass or glazing, frame, and/or door. The radiation of heat into a room (typically from the sun) and out of a house from room-temperature objects, such as people, furniture, and interior walls or the Air leakage through and around them. These properties can be measured and rated according to the following energy performance characteristics:
U-factor is the rate at which a window, door, or skylight conducts non-solar heat flow. It's usually expressed in units of Btu/hr-ft2-oF. For windows, skylights, and glass doors, a U-factor may refer to just the glass or glazing alone. NFRC U-factor ratings, however, represent the entire window performance, including frame and spacer material. The lower the U-factor, the more energy-efficient the window, door, or skylight.
Solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) is the fraction of solar radiation admitted through a window, door, or skylight -- either transmitted directly and/or absorbed, and subsequently released as heat inside a home. The lower the SHGC, the less solar heat it transmits and the greater its shading ability. A product with a high SHGC rating is more effective at collecting solar heat during the winter. A product with a low SHGC rating is more effective at reducing cooling loads during the summer by blocking heat gain from the sun. Your home’s climate, orientation, and external shading will determine the optimal SHGC for a particular window, door, or skylight. For more information about SHGC and windows, see passive solar window design.
Air leakage is the rate of air movement around a window, door, or skylight in the presence of a specific pressure difference across it. It's expressed in units of cubic feet per minute per square foot of frame area (cfm/ft2). A product with a low air leakage rating is tighter than one with a high air leakage rating. Note that air leakage also depends on proper installation of a window, which is assumed in all ratings.
These spaces are designed to be used all year long. These spaces can be in a form of a kit that manufactured by a supplier. Or they can custom built more like a traditional stick framed wall and roofs much like a room add-on that incorporates a lot of different styles of windows.
A sunroom can utilize your existing heat and air conditioning unit to provide comfort in your new structure or you might want to a separate AC unit for use within the area.
A sunroom is convenient space that allows people to get more outdoors without being outside.
Here are some more common uses:
Home Office
Reading Space
Workout Space
Entertaining Room
Pool Table Room
Mud Room
Bar Room
Man Cave
She Shed
Granny Pod
Kids Playroom
A Sunroom has unlimited possibilities what can we do with your home?
The costs to build a sunroom depend on the size, type, quality, finishes, and if it's custom-built or prefabricated. There are all types of build variables and project complexity that can play a part of anyone projects costs. so, it hard to impossible to say a cost per square foot because there isn't one type, one size, one design of a cookie cutter type of sunroom that would fit most applications.
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