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If you've made the major investment of a sunroom addition to your home, you'll want to be able to use that room all year round, not just for a little while. With a four-seaon sunroom, you'll be able to enjoy nature at any time.

Do you want to spend time in a sunroom during a chilly winter morning or a hot, sweltering summer afternoon? Well, if you have a four-season sunroom, chances are you'll find these as enjoyable as any other day. Four-season sunrooms are designed to be pleasant at the most varying extremes of temperature. This utility will be reflected in the cost of the sunroom, of course.

Four-season sunrooms are usually built against the side of an existing house, so that the prospect of enjoying the outdoors while being safe from unpleasant wind, rain or bugs, is only a few steps away.

The sunroom is quick and easy to build, requiring much less time than a typical extension consisting of bricks and mortar. Nevertheless even though they are quick and easy to build, you will still want to ensure that they are built properly, with only the highest-grade materials, to ensure that you get what you pay for.

Sunrooms are, in essence, rooms of glass. But they are not just any old glass. There's nothing more uncomfortable than sitting in a glass room with sunlight pouring in such that you have to wear sunglasses in order to see anything! That is not the case with sunrooms. The windows are coated so that just enough sun enters your room that you can withstand it comfortably.

Because the sunroom is attached to your original home, it is relatively easy to extend the existing heating and cooling systems into the new room to ensure that temperatures will stay comfortable regardless of the season. It's also possible to use window air conditioners and baseboard heaters, if necessary. But if your sunroom is constructed from the highest-quality windows such that the room is properly insulated, you will not have to pay a fortune in energy bills as one of the costs of your new room.

Have a care when choosing who will build your new sunroom. There are many companies out there offer a vast array of sunroom styles and many pricing levels to meet your budget (along with the necessary financing).

Four Season Sunrooms, founded in 1975 and with corporate headquarters in Holbrook, New York is one such company. As glass is the most important part of a sunroom, it's educational to see what Four Seasons has to offer. They call their glass CONSERVAGLASS (trademarked). This glass has the highest R-value in the industry. The R-value measures how easily heat travels through a material, otherwise known as its thermal Resistance. A 4.0 R-Value is recommended, and that's what CONSERVAGLASS has.

This glass has a visible light transmission of 56, which offers that perfect balance between visibility and glare reduction. This glass also blocks 85% of the sun's solar heat. You don't want a room that is unbearably hot or which costs a lot to keep cool. With this quality of glass, you won't need to bother about that.

But those are just numbers, you're thinking. In order to fully understand the comforts and concerns of a new sunroom, make sure you ask any relatives, friends, co-workers or neighbors who possess a sunroom, what they think of it. And don't ask them until they've had the room for at least a full year, so it's experienced all four seasons!