Sunroom contractor in Inglewood, CA - rooms you'll sit in, permitted right
South Gate Sunrooms & Patios builds sunrooms, patio enclosures and screen rooms for Inglewood homeowners, turning a patio, deck or tired porch into a room you'll actually sit in, built by our own crew.
Houses and backyards across Inglewood
Inglewood is mostly houses, a lot of them older single-story stucco places on modest lots, with apartments mixed in along the bigger streets. We're a sunroom contractor in South Gate, CA, and we come out here for the same reason we go to Florence-Graham and Lynwood. People have a patio or a back porch they quit using years ago and want a room there instead.
Most backyards we see here are small, so the room usually goes right where the patio already is. That makes the old slab and the back wall of the house the two things the whole job rests on.
How permits and inspections work in Inglewood
In Inglewood, the permit for a sunroom or an enclosed patio comes from the city's own Building Safety Division. The division checks the drawings in plan review before it issues a permit, then inspects the work as it goes up, so your schedule turns on that review and those inspections as much as on our crew. We find out early whether your job needs plans, take care of the permit steps with the City of Inglewood, and tell you up front if a review has to happen before we can start. We're licensed and fully insured.
Not every place we work handles this the same way. Long Beach has its own building office like Inglewood, while county areas like Willowbrook go through the county, so we check which office has your address before anything gets drawn. Here the price moves mostly with the size of the room, whether your slab can carry it, and how the roof ties into your house, and your written estimate spells out which of those apply.
Services in Inglewood, CA
Patio-to-sunroom conversion
Patio-to-sunroom conversion is most of what we do in Inglewood, because so many houses here have a concrete patio out back that nobody sits on. We check whether that slab can carry walls and a roof before we plan a room on it.
Sunroom remodeling
Plenty of older houses here already have a room somebody enclosed years ago, and it leaks at the roof or gets too hot to use. With sunroom remodeling we redo the tie-in to the house and replace tired glass and roof panels so the room earns its keep again.
Patio cover installation
Not every Inglewood backyard needs walls, and if you mostly want shade over the slab, a patio cover is the cheaper answer. I'll tell you if that's the better fit, even though it's the smaller job.
Screen room installation
A screen room suits people who want evenings outside without the bugs and don't need the room year-round. It costs less than glass, and it's a good choice on a small lot where you still want the air moving.
Four season sunrooms
If you want an extra room you'll use every month, a four season sunroom gets insulated glass and an insulated roof tied properly into your house. That's the room to choose when it's taking the place of a den or an office.
Sunroom additions
Some Inglewood lots have no patio worth building on, so the room starts from new footings as a real addition to the house. We build it to match the roof line and stucco you already have, so it doesn't look tacked on.
What older Inglewood houses ask of a sunroom
A lot of the patio slabs behind Inglewood houses were poured for a table and a grill, not for walls and a roof. I look at the thickness and the edges before I plan anything on one, because a room on a slab that can't carry it settles and cracks, and then the doors stop closing. Where the slab won't do, we add footings, which costs more but is cheaper than building the room twice.
The other half is the back wall. Older stucco houses rarely give you a clean, straight spot to tie a roof into, and that joint is where most leaky rooms leak, so we flash and seal to the wall that's actually there. If the room faces afternoon sun, I'll steer you toward better glass and roof panels, because a room too hot to sit in is just a pricey porch.
Get a written sunroom estimate for your Inglewood house
Send the form and we'll reply within one business day to set a time. I come out to your Inglewood house myself, look at the slab, deck or wall the room would tie into, and write up a free estimate. There's no obligation to go ahead.
How an Inglewood job goes
Call or send the form
You call (213) 376-0861 or send the form, and we set a time for me to come out. It helps if you're home, since I'll have questions about how you plan to use the room.
I check what it sits on
I look at the slab, deck or wall the room will tie into and ask how you'll use the space. You get a written estimate that lists what's in the price and what isn't, so nothing turns up as a surprise later.
We handle permits, then build
We take care of the permit steps with the city, and if your job needs plan review, that happens before any building starts. Then our own crew builds the room, I check on it as it goes up, and the city inspects it along the way.
We walk the room together
When it's built, I walk the finished room with you and we go over anything that isn't right. We don't call it done until you've seen it.
Inglewood sunroom questions
Do I need a permit to build a sunroom in Inglewood?
Plan on one, because the city requires a building permit whenever a structure is built, enlarged, altered, improved or repaired. The city's permit information lays that out, and the wording reaches fixing up an old enclosure as well as building a new room. We treat both as permit jobs from the start.
How do I request a building inspection in Inglewood?
You book it online through the Building Safety Division's OpenGov portal, which is how every inspection there has been requested since March 30, 2026. A homeowner or the contractor can book it from the Building Safety page, and on our jobs we take care of it so you're not chasing dates.
Do I need an appointment to submit sunroom plans in Inglewood?
Yes, the division requires a QLESS appointment for plan check submittal, and for over-the-counter and ready-to-issue permits too. The city also says projects that need plans will be submitted digitally, so the drawings go in as files. We handle the submittal on our jobs.
How do I find out what an Inglewood building permit will cost?
Call Building Safety at (310) 412-5294 and ask for an estimate on your project, which the city invites owners to do. Fees vary with the type and complexity of the work, so a simple patio enclosure and a full addition won't come out the same.
How much does a sunroom cost in Inglewood?
Size, the base and the roof set most of the price. A room on a slab that can carry it costs less than one that needs new footings, screen costs less than insulated glass, and a roof that ties cleanly into your house costs less than one working around an old addition. I give you a written number after I've seen the slab, and I'd rather sell you the cheaper room than the wrong one.
What is the best way to turn an old patio into a sunroom in Inglewood?
Start by finding out whether the slab can hold a room, because everything else gets built on that answer. Then decide how you'll really use the room, which settles glass or screen and how much roof you need, and only then draw it up for the city. Call (213) 376-0861 and I'll come take a look.
Tell us about your Inglewood room
Call (213) 376-0861 or use the form to describe what's out back and ask how the city's permit steps would apply to it, since that's easier to sort out before anything gets drawn.
