Conservatory roof replacement questions, answered before you book

Fitted and before extras, guide prices start from £3,000 up to 12 m², £4,000 for 12 to 25 m² and £5,000 above 25 m². Your survey gives the exact figure.

More faces mean more cutting and more joins to seal. Against an equal sized lean-to, a P-shape adds about 18%, a gable end about 12%, a Victorian about 10% and an Edwardian about 5%.

Yes. There is nothing to pay before or at the survey, and no deposit is taken to book it.

No. The written price is fixed for the roof it describes, and only moves if you change the job, such as adding a roof light.

Putting a new roof on a conservatory you already have rarely needs planning permission. We check your own situation when we survey.

Most sound uPVC and aluminium frames can, and timber ones often can too if the wood is healthy. The surveyor looks over the bars, ring beam and dwarf wall before pricing.

The roof loses heat at about 0.43 W/m²K, between a fifth and a quarter of what old 25 mm polycarbonate loses. The glass walls stay glass, so the room still cools faster than a brick extension.

Light then comes in through the glass walls rather than from above, so the room is shadier, which suits south facing rooms. North facing ones often take a roof light or two.

We cannot give you a number: nobody has published a rain noise test for conservatory panels like ours, and we have not measured them. What we can say is that there are no hollow flutes and the foam is bonded solid to both skins, unlike polycarbonate, which measured 64.6 dB in lab heavy rain.

White, light grey or anthracite grey outside, with a smooth white ceiling inside. We have also fitted roofs onto copper tone and oak effect frames.

Yes. The panel ceiling takes LED spotlights, and glazed roof lights can go in where you want daylight from above.

Most roofs go on in one day. Bigger or more complicated shapes take two.

We only open one section at a time and cover it if a shower comes. If the forecast says the day will be wet, we move the date rather than seal onto damp surfaces.

In our rain data August gave the most dry working days nationally, about 25, and September the fewest, about 19. Every month had enough for a roof.

Yes. The average town had about 22 dry working days in December and 23 in January; we just pick the date with the forecast.

Move furniture and anything fragile away from the walls, and leave a clear way round to the outside of the conservatory.

We take it away with us at the end of the day and recycle what we can.

A 10 year insurance backed guarantee comes with the roof we fit. The walls, doors and windows we leave untouched are not part of it.

Rinse it with a hose, brush off marks with a soft brush and mild soap, keep the gutter clear, and keep pressure washers away from the seals.

From the Met Office UKV 2 km weather model, through Open-Meteo: 1,754,400 hourly readings for 100 English towns across 2024 and 2025.

A night between 11pm and 7am with at least one hour of rain at 0.5 mm an hour or more. The average town had 65 of them a year.