A sunroom in Cascades
Cascades Community Association gives its own address as 47620 Saulty Drive, Potomac Falls, VA 20165; we count it under Sterling, as JK's own list of towns does. Under Article 9 of its Declaration, a Covenants Committee of three or more members appointed by the Board reviews all changes, permanent or temporary, to the outside of a house or lot, and a home in a sub-association also answers to that sub-association's rules. A standard application that meets the Architectural Design Standards can be approved by management staff without going to the committee. Any other goes in through the association's TownSq site at least ten business days before a committee meeting. The standards themselves are amended each year, with the Board's approval.
A sunroom is an addition, and additions head Cascades' list of projects that need the signatures of the adjacent neighbors, before decks, fences, hot tubs and patios. The application also carries a registered site plan, or plat, marked with the location of the proposed change. Owners are told the decision by email within 45 days, an approval allows six months to start the project, and a decision of the Covenants Committee can be appealed within fifteen days.
A sunroom in CountrySide
CountrySide Proprietary, whose office is at 21515 Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, calls itself a community on the Potomac. Before most exterior changes to a home, its owners apply through the Design Review process, which the Design Review Committee hears. Every application carries the committee's own form and each checklist that applies; the association keeps checklists for decks and patios, walkways, fences, sheds, lighting, windows and color changes, and one for an enclosed structure. A completed application is due at the Proprietary Office on the first of the month to be reviewed that month, so we confirm with the office which checklists a sunroom takes before the drawings are made.
Cascades or CountrySide?
Send us your street, and we will find out which association reviews the sunroom before we come out.
Sterling's permit office
Sterling has no town government of its own: it is not among Loudoun County's seven incorporated towns, so the county's Department of Building and Development reviews a sunroom there directly. The county's steps for an addition, from the permit to the final inspection, are on our Loudoun County page.
How we plan a Sterling sunroom
Sterling is about 10 miles from our Gum Spring Road shop in a straight line. At the first visit we find out which association the house belongs to, since Cascades and CountrySide keep different forms, deadlines and signature rules. The sunroom is then drawn on the plat for that association, the neighbors' signatures go on a Cascades application, and the county permit is filed once the association has approved. How a sunroom is framed, roofed, heated and cooled is on our sunrooms page.
Sterling projects we also take on
- Three-season rooms and screened porches
- Composite decks, paver patios and fire pits
- Home additions and basement remodeling