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Sunrooms are porch enclosures that feature fully insulated walls, flooring, ceilings, doors and windows. This type of home addition project can add to your house's value as well as allow you to invite natural daylight into your house. The sunroom addition allows homeowners to enjoy all of the benefits of being outside without all of the drawbacks, such as insects and inclement weather. If you are adding a sunroom to your home, it may cost thousands of dollars to build.

Most home room enclosure additions are expensive projects, but sunrooms are generally cheaper to add than other types of rooms. According to RemodelingMySpace.com, the average cost for a sunroom addition is generally between $12,000 and $70,000, compared to the cost of other types of room additions which cost between $30,000 and $80,000 on average. Adding a sunroom to an existing structure typically costs between $125 and $150 per square foot, which includes materials, installation, construction and tear-out work. The overall cost depends on where you live, the size of the new sunroom and the features you desire. According to Remodeling Magazine, the average cost of a sunroom addition was $73,167 in 2009-10.

Some manufacturers have prefabricated sunrooms for sale. These types of sunrooms are typically less expensive than customized sunrooms that are designed with the owner's preferences in mind. According to Costhelper, four-season prefabricated sunrooms can cost as much as between $60,000 and $70,000. The difference between four-season and three-season sunrooms is that four-season versions are temperature controlled. If you live in a moderate climate and want the less expensive three-season sunroom, it can cost between $15,000 and $35,000 on average.

According to Remodeling Magazine, the average cost for a 200 square foot customized sunroom is between $66,000 and $84,000. This price range typically includes the costs for a slab foundation, framing and insulation construction. It also includes glass windows with screens, tile flooring, window shades and ceiling fans. Homeowners who want their sunroom to match the rest of their home dcor may opt for this type of sunroom project.

Homeowners who want additional features in their sunrooms should allot extra money in their overall budgets. For example, skylights may cost around $900 for the skylight and $300 for installation for a grand total of $1,200 per skylight, according to 345 Build. Other pricey additions include extra electrical sockets, cathedral ceilings, remote-controlled shades, extra beams and custom tile work or flooring.

The Average Cost of a Sunroom Addition. Sunrooms are porch enclosures that feature fully insulated walls, flooring, ceilings, doors and windows.

The Average Cost of a Sunroom Addition. Sunrooms are porch enclosures that feature fully insulated walls, flooring, ceilings, doors and windows.

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A sunroom is often positioned on the side or back of a house overlooking a yard. The room is designed to receive more sunlight than a traditional room, and it may have windows and doors on two or three sides as well as skylights in the ceiling. Often a sunroom is attached to a family room or kitchen, and doors and windows in the existing house are removed to create access and flow from the house to the new room. Planning and designing a sunroom should be done well in advance of permits and construction.

Measure the rooms adjacent to the area where you want to add the sunroom. Transfer your measurements onto 1/4-inch graph paper.

Draw in the existing windows, doors, steps, walls, fireplaces, niches, openings or any features that impact the sunroom design. Draw in existing features of the exterior that need to be considered in the design process. These features might include the slope of the yard, existing patio or deck, existing buildings, trees, shrubs, the type of material the house is constructed out of, and the design of the existing roof or second story wall that the roof of the new room will connect to.

Tape the floor plan to the table. Tape tracing paper over the floor plan. Sketch in the size and shape of the new sunroom. Draw in the size and position of windows and doors and use a dashed line to indicate the location of skylights. Detail the location of exterior stairs.

Draw how the existing adjacent rooms will change when the addition is constructed. This may include the removal of walls, doors, windows and other features. It may also involve new wiring, plumbing and ductwork to tie the new room into the existing building.

Determine your preferred budget for the addition. Add 10 percent to your budget figure to allow for unexpected construction problems and costs. The other way to figure your budget is to reduce your top amount by 10 percent and establish the lower amount as the actual budget.

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The Thirst tree, a public art installation that went up Sept. 29 to represent the trees killed in the recent drought, was removed from Lady Bird Lake last week.

Barbry Alma: It should stay until we start actually protecting our water supply.

Jay W. Smith: Now how about the environmental cleanup of the toxic paint chips that fell off and polluted the lake. Not to mention the rust and oils off the metal posts that were rammed into the bottom to support the stupid thing. I worked a construction site a few years back and every time there was a little silt from the natural Del Rio Clay-stone under the Butler Ball Fields, people would go crazy about the lake being messed up. It was nothing more than Natural Runoff that was not toxic.

Cindy Anne Ashline Foss: I thought it was better than those stupid blue panels on Lamar near 5th that they call art.

Tony Love: I hope it gets a new home where it may be enjoyed by the public

Amanda Vernon: If I knew somebody would pay me $30,000 or however much it was to paint a dead tree white, Id claim to be an artist too. Haha.

Doug Matthews: Never did understand what that tree thingy was all about. Oh, I read the stories and saw the photos, but the explanation was simply not convincing: didnt make much sense either.

Joanie Cooksey: I loved this exhibit! Sad to see it go!

Blanca Houston: Good-bye Thirst Tree; an eco-sensitive addition in the Annals of Austins Weirdness. Yes, I will hug a tree.

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GREENING Bathurst chairman Ashley Bland says he is not concerned about changes to Bathursts Local Environmental Plan and Development Control Plan that allow residents outside the regions heritage conservation areas to fell trees because he knows people find trees beautiful and understand the important role they play.

GREENING Bathurst chairman Ashley Bland says he is not concerned about changes to Bathursts Local Environmental Plan and Development Control Plan that allow residents outside the regions heritage conservation areas to fell trees because he knows people find trees beautiful and understand the important role they play.

Once councils new LEP and DCP come into effect in 2014 a tree permit will no longer be required to remove, lop or prune a tree outside the identified Heritage Conservation Areas.

However, within the conservation areas three processes have been established to deal with the assessment and determination of applications for the removal, lopping and pruning of trees.

These are a prescribed Tree Permit Application; or exempt Tree Notification Form; or development consent as part of a development application.

A prescribed tree permit application must be lodged with council to ringbark, cut down, top, lop, remove, injure or wilfully destroy any prescribed tree in a heritage conservation area.

An exempt tree notification form is to be lodged with council to remove, lop, top or cut down an exempt tree that is greater than nine metres in height; or has a stem circumference of one metre or more at a height of one metre from the ground; or has a branch spread of 15 metres or more.

Mr Bland said he believes the people of Bathurst realise how wonderful it is to have trees and will not take advantage of the changes to the regulations.

We understand how important trees are for keeping us cool and providing a habitat for local wildlife, Mr Bland said.

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No one injured, residents displaced by water from sprinkler system

A fire started by a fallen candle at a retirement community in Troutdale injured no one but caused an estimated $50,000 in damage and displaced residents after the buildings sprinkler system turned on.

At 1:08 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, Gresham firefighters were dispatched to Cherry Park Plaza, a senior living facility at 1323 S.W. Cherry Park Road, said Alyssa Roupp, spokeswoman at the Gresham fire department.

According to the fire report, a tenant had lit a candle on a table in her room to cover up the smell of wet dog.

The woman then used her electronic wheelchair to go to the kitchen.

Upon her return, the scooter bumped the end table.

The candle fell and set fire to a scarf and other garments hanging on the door.

Smoke from the fire activated the units sprinkler system, and the fire was put out before six engines, a fire truck and the battalion chief responded to the scene.

The woman was not injured, Roupp said.

There was smoke damage in the room, and her scarf and garments were damaged.

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