Clark Construction Creates A Room for All Seasons

In the cozy, hazy, breezy zone between indoor and outdoor sits the three-season room; architecture’s answer to the scorching sun, pouring rain, lightning flashes and biting bugs. Whatever nature can throw at you, a three-season screen porch addition can protect you from it.

Well almost.

There comes a day, probably in late fall, when the wind blows, the temperature drops, you shiver and you think “not today.” You just found the limits of your three-season room.

Clients tell us that they see their three season rooms as more part of their outdoor space than their indoor space while four season rooms are clearly part of the house. So if you want to permanently add to the year-round, weatherproof footprint of your home, four season is the best remodeling project to do. Rooms like this still make you feel closer to nature and bring a great view inside – but they leave the weather firmly on the outside. Three-season rooms are a great option if you simply want to extend their outdoor season by a couple of months.

What’s the difference in construction cost?

  • Adding heat and cooling to create a 4-season room makes it more expensive and more complicated to build: the structure has to be compliant with a whole host of building codes including R-value insulation, energy star qualified windows and doors, and a certain number and spacing of electrical outlets.

  • Four-season porches are usually classed by the building department as ‘habitable’ and as such, dependent on the source of your heat, can affect the taxable basis of your home.

  • A knowledgeable design team will work with local officials to ascertain their position on different heat sources.

We recently converted an existing screen porch, remodeling it into a 3-season room. The clients did not want the expense of permanently heating the sporadic-use space so we built the room with a direct vent gas fireplace. This gave them the option of heating the room as required in the winter and added a cozy ambiance to the room too, without falling under the regulations for “habitable” space.

You can find out more about creating a four season room by calling Clark Construction at 203-432-2699 or visiting their website here.

Read more about a four-season room on the Clark Construction blog “A Room For All Seasons” here.

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Submitted by Wilton, CT

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