Mark the date on your calendar!
Sunrooms By Brady is coming to your town!

3/05 – 3/07
Spring Home Show at the CT Expo Center, Hartford, CT

3/11 – 3/14
Rhode Island Spring Show, RI Convention Center, Providence, RI

3/12 – 3/14
Worcester Spring Home Show, The DCU Center, Worcester, MA

3/13 – 3/14
Western New England Show, Western CT State Univ, Danbury, CT

3/19 – 3/21
Southeastern CT Home Show, CT College Arena, New London, CT

3/27 – 3/28
Westchester County Home Show, County Center, White Plains, NY

3/27 – 3/28
The Home Show at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport, CT

We consulted with Brady-Built of New England several years ago on a large commercial retail renovation project. The goal was to replace a dilapidated, aluminum, single-pane greenhouse with a new climate controlled and aesthetically pleasing solarium. The result is a beautiful wood-interior strait eave sunspace, custom-designed to fit over an existing 16 foot by 36 foot section of our hot tub and sauna showroom located in Nashua, New Hampshire.

I have been involved with many sunroom construction projects over the past thirty years from site-built greenhouse structures to conservatories and pool enclosures. Nothing compares with the beauty, integrity, and free heat of a Brady Room. Their southern yellow pine beams with factory-applied urethane finish, Climaguard solar glass, Pella windows and doors, along with a 25 year comprehensive warranty make BradyRooms easy to own, easy to enjoy.

We truly appreciate how our own Brady Built project came together seamlessly from custom design services to final installation-a well coordinated effort. Our company had previously experienced years of frustration with marginal support from other four season type offerings. Most kits, constructed of vinyl and aluminum, were erected and glazed on site which often led to performance issues mostly due to limited generic design and/or hurried installation during less than ideal weather conditions. The Brady brand offers everyone a premium modular upgrade to your single largest investment, your home.

Oasis Sunrooms & Spas www.hotspas.com is an authorized Brady-Built New Hampshire dealer with a portfolio of timeless and beautiful sunspace additions in many surrounding towns including Amherst, Auburn, Bedford, Bow, Candia, Concord, Exeter, Goffstown, Hollis, Hudson, Manchester, Merrimack, Pelham, Peterborough, Rye, Salem and Windham. We offer At-Home Design consultation along with a local factory tour where our clients can experience the feel of numerous display models instead of choosing from a brochure. With a room for every style and budget, the value of creating your very own Brady Lifestyle Addition is only limited by your imagination.

Robert Wironen
General Manager

Our friends at Your Designs LLC, an authorized Brady-Built reseller in Michigan, asked us a question about sustainability and eco-friendly materials in our sunrooms. We understand how important it is to today’s families. You’ll be happy to know that Brady-Built Sunrooms are not just beautiful, but help maintain nature’s beauty so we can enjoy it with our children and grandchildren for generations to come.

The windows (Pella) that we use are energy star rated.  The glass from Guardian exceeds energy star specifications, but the NFRC does not certify window components, so technically we cannot say that our glass is energy star rated (that’s why Guardians web site is so vague).  The wood is from a sustainable source.  The aluminum is mostly recycled content.  All factory scrap glass and aluminum is recycled. Wood scraps are given away to local residents for use as fuel for home heaters.  The sawdust is given to a local farmer for use as bedding for livestock.

We’re glad to have the opportunity to be an authorized Brady- Built Sunroom dealer in the Lehigh Valley. I have been installing sunrooms for the past 10 years as a sub-contractor for various sunroom companies in our area. I have installed approximately 500 sunrooms in the following cities: Nazareth, Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Bangor, Wind Gap, Emmaus, Macungie, Quakertown, Perkasie, Montgomeryville, Harleysville, Norristown, West Chester, Coatesville, Downingtown, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Lansdale, Kulpsville, Souderton, Reading, Boyertown, Gilbertsville, Kutztown, Hamburg, Schuylkill Haven, Tamaqua, Lehighton, Palmerton, Jim Thorpe, Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg.

When my employer went out of business, I decided to sell and install sunrooms myself. I looked for a manufacturer from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, and talked with many sunroom companies until I met with Brady-Built. Of the 500 sunrooms I had installed, not one of them was as beautiful as the wood-interior sunrooms you produce. The sunrooms I had been installing either have aluminum or vinyl interiors. I felt that anyone interested in purchasing a sunroom would surely choose a wood interior rather than aluminum or vinyl for an addition to their home.

Homeowners are amazed when my team and I go onto the roof and walk on the glass to attach your sunroom to their house – an ordinary occurrence, thanks to the double pane, argon-filled tempered glass. The glass has much less give when you step on it due to the impact-resistant glass, which also provides exceptional strength and protects the interior from harmful UV rays. I also like the structural silicone used to prevent your glass from leaking, one of the biggest problems with the other sunrooms I had installed. The design of those rooms and caulk used did not prevent leaks; in fact, one company had a service man who did nothing but go around and fix leaks!  I’ve never had a leak with a Brady-Built Sunroom.

What I find amazing is the strength of Brady-Built sunrooms, due to their components and  the manufacturing method. They use 2″ X 6″ studs for the knee walls, pressure-treated lumber for attachment to concrete, Tyvek to cover exterior walls, and kiln- dried laminated wood with a polyurethane finish, which gives the room a spectacular look. I like the solid sound of the sliding doors and windows when opening & closing – all name brand Pella window & doors. It’s no wonder that a Brady-Built Sunroom can be delivered to a customer’s site and remain free-standing there, if the site preparation has not been completed. The other sunrooms I’ve installed had to be attached to the house right away. They are, in fact, giant erector sets with cheap panels and thin aluminum extrusion.

Brady-Built Sunrooms also have a large selection of styles: straight eave, curved eave, gable style and conservatory models, with any style roof the customer may desire.  There are all-glass roof systems, solid roof systems, or solid-and-glass combined. For the first time the customer truly has the capability of designing the sunroom of his dreams. I also like the solar screens which may easily be installed to reduce heat gain in the summer, and then removed in the fall and winter when you would want to maximize light and heat in the room.

I could go on and on, because new design ideas and more custom choices are constantly being developed and offered to Brady-Built customers. It is my pleasure to go to home shows and hear the visitors say, “WOW, look at that sunroom! I’ve never seen one like that before!”

Again, I would like to say “Thanks” to you, Kevin, and to Marco, Kathy, Robert, Joe, Jim, Tony, Becky and the rest of the Brady-Built Sunroom Team.

Sincerely,

Ed Bauer, Owner

Simba Construction LLC

Dear Friend,                                                                           

I formed Your Designs LLC  in 1988, after gaining more than 8 years of design and contracting experience.  Located in Hazel Park MI, Your Designs LLC is central to the entire Metro Detroit area, and we have the ability to consult, design, install and maintain your project anywhere in Michigan and in portions of Ohio.

In recent years, it’s the Brady-Built Sunrooms that is central to many of our projects.  We are an authorized and fully trained Brady-Built regional dealer. Sunrooms are often incorporated as part of a new kitchen, bathroom or basement renovation.  Your Designs, LLC has the capability to do every aspect of your project.  Our website, www.yourdesignsweb.com,is full of completed projects and other information.  The pictures, videos with live testimonials and links to multiple related sites are all part of our effort to help you become a well-informed consumer. When choosing a sunroom or other type of building addition, we will demonstrate what you really need to know to compare Brady-Built Sunrooms with the competition.

Your Designs LLC has chosen to represent Brady-Built Sunrooms because of the Brady team commitment to be the best in the industry, as well as what the product has to offer. Each room is engineered perfectly, utilizing highest quality components. The interior has beautifully laminated southern yellow pine beams with a factory-applied semi-gloss urethane finish, and the exterior is covered with heavy duty, durable, powder-coated aluminum.  Each room is built using mortise-and-tenon joinery, and features Climaguard solar glass, and your choice of Pella wood-aluminum clad or Duracast fiberglass windows and doors. Your sunroom is manufactured in a factory-controlled environment, shipped to your site by truck, hoisted in place by crane and easily installed.  This allows its new owner almost immediate use and enjoyment! Your new sunroom is backed by a 25 year comprehensive warranty, the best in the industry.

No matter what the size of your space or budget, together with your plans and dreams and our design experience, we can achieve a beautiful, living and/or working space. Our promise to you is a high quality job at a fair price. You will be a proud and satisfied customer when the project is completed. Our existing customers love to show off what my company has done for them, so let me back up my words with a visit to one of our latest installations. You’ll be glad you did!

Finally, we know that your new sunroom or enclosed addition will be the most used room in your home or business, and will provide many years of enjoyment. The beauty, serenity and uniqueness that come with a Brady-Built sunroom will add not only value, but an investment into the future of your happiness and quality of life. Call today for a free on-site consultation.

Sincerely,

Bruce S. Reese (Owner/General Contractor/Sunroom Designer)

Your Designs LLC

1458 E. Hayes

Hazel Park MI 48030

Direct 248-250-3356 (Best way to reach)

Office/Fax 248-543-0214

www.yourdesignsweb.com

We’re pretty new to this twitter thing, so we were excited and surprised to get a message from our friends at OnSite Studios letting us know they photographed a Brady-Built sunroom for a client. Jay and his studio did a wonderful job providing a full 360° view of this lovely sunroom. Check it out after the jump.

Full 360° Panoramic View of a Brady-Built Gathering Room

Jay and OnSite did a wonderful job photographing this beautiful property. Check out OnSite’s work on this house; the bridge must be beautiful with a bit of snow outside.

Below is the third article in our series addressing the choice of Lexan and Glass in your sunroom. While both have their advantages and disadvantages, Bob breaks down why some manufacturers do not measure up to Brady-Built quality.

To understand why the glazing systems respond the way they do in summer versus winter, it’s important to know one fundamental element of heating and cooling design.  The amount of energy needed to make a room comfortable is directly proportional to the difference in outdoor temperature versus indoor temperature.

For instance, if you want your house to be 70 degrees on a 10 degree day in January you need enough energy to raise the temperature 60 degrees.  If you want your house to be 70 degrees on a very hot day in the summer, let’s say it is 100 degrees outdoors, you will need only half as much energy to get it to your target temperature of 70 degrees.  This is pretty obvious when you read it, but it has important implications when selecting glass for a sunroom.

Using heavily tinted glass or plastic will help prevent the sun from hitting surfaces in the room, reducing the amount of heat generated in the room, but a significant portion of the sunlight is converted directly into heat energy in the tinted glass.

About half of this heat energy radiates into the sunroom causing the temperatures within the room to rise to levels well above the outdoor temperature.  Though this is a relatively small amount of heat, remember, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, that much less energy is needed in summer to make a big difference in comfort (or discomfort in this case).

As summer enters its last throes, the days are getting shorter and the nights a bit more chilly. Here at Brady-Built Sunrooms, we continue our work to bring the best and highest quality sunrooms to you. We have a series of articles coming up that will help you prepare for the winter months and help get you valuable information so that you can make the right decision for you and your home.

These articles were written by our General Manager, Robert Wironen, whose knowledge and experience will help guide you through some of the complexities faced when choosing a sunroom. We hope you enjoy these articles and gain helpful information.

A new structure that is to be added on to the existing structure.  Additions are often new rooms such as a family room or a conservatory or an expansion of an existing room.  Most states require a building permit for additions.

A structural or trim piece that is manufactured by forcing aluminum through a die.  Extruded aluminum is commonly used for the frame on many sunrooms and is used by Brady-Built for the exterior weathering surface of their sunrooms, making it possible to have the maintenance free qualities of aluminum on the outside and the beauty of wood on the inside.