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Possible to sell Sunroom

6 years ago

We have a 12' x 20' Sunroom on the back of our home we are planning on demolishing in order to build an addition. Is it possible to re-sell the sunroom? Does anyone know the best way to do that? Any advice would be great.

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kudzu9

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

Sorry, but that sunroom is not a movable item like a used refrigerator. I really can't imagine anyone giving you anything much for the sunroom. It has value as an integrated part of your home, and essentially no value to others. The siding doors look nice and someone might be willing to remove them and give you a couple hundred dollars total for them, or at least not charge you to uninstall them, but that's about it. You can't just move major pieces like walls, floor, and roof from your location to another, and the individual components like pieces of flooring, 2X4's with nails in them, shingles, and aluminum windows are essentially scrap that you'll need to pay to have dismantled and taken to the dump. You're probably thinking that people move houses, but that's not what you're talking about, and the cost to detach that structure and move it somewhere would far exceed its value. In addition, it's probably is not even structurally adequate to be moved once it's disconnected from the house, anyway.

I know that's not the answer you were hoping for, but it's a realistic answer.

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User
6 years ago
$9.95. You ship.
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littlebug zone 5 Missouri
6 years ago
Well you can try to sell anything you want. Finding a buyer, though, might be hard to do.

As written above, it doesn’t look like the sunroom can be sold all in one piece. So you would need to find a handyman or scrapper to tear it off, maybe for free if he/she can keep the materials.
geoffrey_b
6 years ago
Yeah - a scrapper who will tear it down, and haul it away for free.
User
6 years ago
Depending on where you live....people here would buy it and dismantle it. Many would buy the glass doors. If you have Craigs list or a paper like the Pennysaver it's worth it to advertise it and see.
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kudzu9
6 years ago
Also remember that, if you allow someone on your property and they get injured removing or dismantling the sunroom, you may end up with a serious lawsuit on your hands.
Alex Derenthal thanked kudzu9
DavidR
6 years ago
If I had a stunning sunroom like that, with a view like that, I don't think I could bring myself to demolish it for an addition. I'd find a way to put the addition somewhere else. But that's me. Chacun à son goût, as the French say.
Fori
6 years ago
You might be able to get some DIY greenhousers interested in the windows and doors, especially if they're modern tempered glass. I know some sunrooms are sort of like kits and they might (?) be moveable but yours looks site built and won't come apart without a fight.
sdello
6 years ago
To bake a cake you have to break a few eggs.

Demolition for an addition is part of the job although there might be some life left in the pieces, the salvage value is minimal.

You can demolish it yourself and try to scavenge some money for the scrap or maybe your addition contractor will give you an allowance for some of the salvageable materials (not likely but it couldn't hurt to ask).

You don't say how old those glass units are but the seals maybe going/gone or get compromised during the demolition.

Bottom line is for all intents and purposes you won't recoup anything. For example, around here a large hospital wanted to expand and there were two perfectly good (and historical) homes on the property. The hospital offered them for sale for $1 but the buyer had to remove them from the property. People weren't lined up waiting to the take the deal and I'm not sure they found anyone to do it. $1 house
Blank Blank
3 years ago
I had a sunroom installed in the back of my house several years shin and I want to move it to a different location on my house. Can this be done?

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