Sunrooms

Sunroom Specifications

We are pleased to offer one of the easiest do it yourself sunrooms in the market. These units can be used to create an entirely new sunroom or to enclose an area with an existing deck and/or roof. These sunrooms can be erected by do-it-yourself clients and offer an excellent balance of quality, price, flexibility and time savings in erection time.Although each unit is custom designed, they are manufactured in a manner, which keeps your cost down. The custom modular units result in easy and speedy erection of your sunroom.

In addition, the fabrication of these sunrooms can accommodate slightly out of level or square existing conditions within limits and are designed to be attached to your home or park model trailer. Our sunrooms provide custom designed additional living space embedded with natural light, attached to and accessible from your home or park model trailer. In northern climates a southern exposure is the best location because the sunroom will receive light the majority of the day. In southern climates an easterly exposure is best for providing morning sun and shade the rest of the day.

The roof of a sunroom can be all glass, which may result in significant heat loss in cooler weather or attraction of too much heat in the summer. We offer an insulated sunroom roof.

A solid aluminum insulated roof sunroom (R12 to R 24) is another option. A sunroom usually has windows on all sides which allows sunlight into the room. If one would like to enhance the light further then optional skylights can be ordered which will provide further light without the disadvantages of a fully glassed sunroom roof. Choose an operating skylight if you are in a southern climate to allow you further options to release any unwanted heat in the sunroom.

A Sunroom, Patio Enclosure may also be
installed on a park model trailer.

Each Sunroom, Patio Enclosure is built from modular walls panels and modular roof panels. On all Sunroom, Patio Enclosure models, the walls can be extensively windowed except for 3″ at each corner of the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure.

The walls of the three season Sunroom, Patio Enclosure are either 2″ or 3″ thick and insulated with 1 pound expanded polystyrene (R12) vacuum pressed between a .024″ stucco embossed aluminium skin (colour options). The aluminium has a baked, powder coated paint finish. The P.V.C. is used on the inside of the sunroom in lieu of aluminium as it is resistant to dents and is therefore more user-friendly for families with young children.

Sunroom – optional glass kick plate

Sunroom – (optional glasstransoms)

The aluminum has a baked, powder coated white (colour options) paint finish. The thicker the roof the higher the insulation value and the greater the strength. The roof panels are 48″ wide and are joined by an extrusion which forms an I Beam for greater strength than other types of systems that use modules that snap together.

Fixed or operating Skylights are available as an option and more than one skylight may be placed in a roof of the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure if desired by the client. Locations of Skylights in the roof can be specified by the customer but must be at least 4″ from the edge of the roof panel. Normally Skylights are centered in a roof panel. The hole for the skylight is pre-cut in the factory.

The benefit of the aluminum roof over one which is entirely glass is the insulation value in the roof. Making it cooler in summer and warmer in cool temperatures. The skylight option allows the client to choose the amount of light that they wish to enter through the roof.

The Sunroom, Patio Enclosure roof comes with an integrated extruded gutter and fascias. The customer has a choice of gutter and fascia colours. These are normally matched to the colour of the walls.

When a Sunroom, Patio Enclosure is attached to a home it must be installed on a deck, which has been built on 10″ diameter concrete sono tubes or technoposts which go well below the frost line or a suitably constructed concrete pad.

When a Sunroom, Patio Enclosure is attached to a trailer it must be installed on a deck that under the most favourable soil conditions is built on a base similar to that indicated below. As a caution many soil conditions require more extensive bases and one should check this situation out before installing the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure.

Dig 6″ deep

Deck Block

Patio Stone

2″ Styrofoam

2″ crushed Stone

The Sunroom, Patio Enclosure is considered a permanent structure and it is the client’s responsibility to determine the local by-laws, construction requirements and permits, if any, required in the municipality in which they live.

We also offer an insulated deck, on which the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure can be installed. It is available in 4″ (R19.5), 6″ (R28.5) and 8″ (R37.5) thickness. This deck would be installed on a framed 2″ x 10″ pressure treated lumber structure built up on concrete sono tubes or technoposts which go well below the frost line.

Where the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure is installed under a home roof, an eaves-trough must be installed on the house to avoid significant amounts of water or snow being dumped on the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure roof from the house. It is advisable to have water from the downspout drain away from the Sunroom, Patio Enclosure.

All parts in the kit are made of rust resistant aluminum.

Options indicated above are available at extra cost.