Clovis summers are long and genuinely brutal. Temperatures above 100 degrees are routine from June through September, and the heat is dry - the kind that bakes exterior materials and turns a poorly designed sunroom into an unusable greenhouse. A contractor who builds the same room in Clovis as they would in Marin County will leave you with a space you avoid all summer. Every sunroom we build in Clovis starts with an honest conversation about solar orientation, glass specification, and how the room will perform when the thermometer hits 108 degrees at three in the afternoon.

The clay soil underneath most Clovis homes adds another layer of local expertise that matters. Expansive clay swells when winter rain comes and shrinks when the dry season bakes it back out - and that seasonal movement puts stress on any concrete work attached to your home. Getting the footing design right for a slab-on-grade Clovis home requires direct experience with this soil, not just general construction knowledge. We have poured footings and connected additions to hundreds of homes on this soil, and we know where the movement happens and how to account for it.

Clovis is an incorporated city of roughly 120,000 people sitting directly east of Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. It is its own city with its own government, police department, and building department - not a Fresno suburb, even though the two cities share a border. Residents tend to be long-term homeowners who chose Clovis for the Clovis Unified School District, the quieter streets, and the suburban character of the neighborhoods. The city ranges from the historic Old Town district along Clovis Avenue - with its weekly farmers market and older storefronts near the original railroad depot - to large newer subdivisions spreading north toward Herndon Avenue and east toward the foothills.

The housing stock in Clovis reflects its growth pattern. Older homes near Old Town are from the 1940s through 1960s and tend to be smaller with different construction details than the city's newer areas. Most of the city, however, was built between 1980 and 2010 - stucco-sided single-family homes on modest lots with attached garages, concrete driveways, and backyard patios. These are exactly the homes where a sunroom or patio enclosure makes the most sense: there is space in the back, the patio slab is already there, and the homes are old enough that the owners have started thinking about improvements. We also regularly work in Sanger and the other communities throughout the Fresno metro when homeowners reach out from just outside the Clovis city limits.