Sunrooms and greenhouses
Light, warmth and a view, without the draughts.
Three-season or four, glass roof or solid, a room to sit in or a room to grow in. Build it here, see the range, and send it to us to measure the wall it will hang off.
Start from one of ours
Attached or detached
The house it attaches to (so the roof and walls line up with it)
The door it opens from (its sill height decides the steps)
Whenever the sunroom floor sits more than 7½″ above or below the door pan, steps are drawn and priced.
Style
Size
Roof
Walls (from all glass to no wall glass at all)
Windows (in the solid walls)
Frame colour
Door
Seasons
Floor elevation (at grade, raised, or sunken below grade)
Steps down (a sunken floor needs a way in)
Interior steps use a little of the room but you never clear snow off them. A stairwell outside keeps the whole floor.
Peak ventilation
Boot room / winter airlock (a second door between the cold and the room)
Extras
Greenhouse
A greenhouse is glass all round with a floor that can get wet; vents and shade cloth are what make it work in July.
What’s in the number
Worth thinking about
Three questions that decide a sunroom.
Three seasons or four?
Four-season means insulated frames, thermal glass and heat — a real room in January. Three-season costs less and closes in November.
Glass roof or solid?
Glass is the point for many people. A solid insulated roof with skylights is cooler in July and cheaper to heat, and still bright.
Or a greenhouse?
Glass all round, beds along the walls, a potting bench on the house side, vents that open themselves, a floor that can get wet. Tomatoes in April.
A boot room on the way in
If the sunroom door is also the way into the house, winter comes in with everyone. A small vestibule in front of the entry door — glassy to match, or framed and sided — gives you the second door that most prairie houses were built without. Pick it under Boot room above.
Orientation matters more than anything on the list: south and west glass needs shade and venting; north glass needs heat. We check the wall, the footing and the sun at the walkthrough — [Makez confirms permit rules for attached sunrooms in its municipalities].
Send us the sunroom. We’ll check the wall.
Walkthroughs are free and take about an hour.