Paul Despenas: Sunroom Season is around the corner! If you’re planning a new sunroom for the Spring/Summer now is the time to start your planning! Most homeowners I speak to have the assumption they can order a sunroom and have it installed a couple weeks later, not the case! From the time your sunroom project is ordered to start date is normally 4-6 weeks and as we get into the summer and fall months the wait can be as long as 8-10 weeks. Once you’ve made the decision to have a new sunroom installed the company needs to pull apply for permits and supply factory engineering to the inspectors, order locates and other building material for the production of this project. Now your sunroom is ordered and at the factory waiting its turn to go into production, once it has gone through the production and inspection process your room is loaded on the factory semi’s and shipped directly to one of the 2 Midwest Construction Showroom/Warehouses located in Iowa. Your room is in and your production manager will give you a call and let you know your estimated start date (weather permitting) and a few days before the crew shows up you will get the call you have been waiting for, My Name is Andy and we would like to get started on your sunroom next Tuesday. Your room will be delivered by the Midwest Construction Truck; Installers will have their own truck and trailer. The crew will start by removing and hauling away you existing deck, bore footings into the ground and having those inspected by the city officials, fill with concrete and let set. Roof lines will need to be prepared and back wall preparation. Once the footings are set we are ready to build the post and beam construction for the new engineered INSUL-DECK Engineered Floor System to be installed. Walls and roof are erected, deck, stairs and landing are finished up and the electrician is on his way to do his part. Still not done, trim out the back wall of the sunroom or old house wall we just enclosed with any number of options. Once everything is finished on our end then we need to have a final inspection by the city official and you can enjoy the outdoors from the indoors 365 days a year in your new Oasis All Season Sunroom built by Midwest Construction.