One Dry Day

Conservatory roof replacement in Ashford

Across 2024 and 2025 the Met Office 2 km model puts 808 mm a year on Ashford, which makes it the 56th wettest of the 100 towns we counted. On 261 days a year the hours from 8am to 4pm stay dry, so finding a fitting day is a question of watching the forecast, not waiting for summer.

At night it is a different story: 66 nights a year bring an hour of moderate or heavier rain, 44th highest of 100. We replace polycarbonate and glass conservatory roofs in Ashford with 75 mm insulated panel roofs from £3,000, fitted onto the frame you have.

261
dry working days a year
66
noise nights a year
808 mm
rain a year
Close view of a white Victorian panel roof and its ridge
Seven facets meeting at the ridge.

Ashford's rain, day by day

Every sliver is one day, darker for more rain; the orange marks underneath are dry working days. Met Office UKV 2 km model data for Ashford, January 2024 to December 2025.

2024885 mm of rain, 252 dry working days
2025730 mm of rain, 269 dry working days

When to book in Ashford

June, August and December gave Ashford the best odds of a dry working day; September gave the worst, at 58%.

The longest run of dry working days in a row was 25, ending in July 2025. The longest wait without one was 6 days. That is why we book roofs a week or two ahead and confirm the day on the forecast: a dry day turns up in almost every week of the year. When to book a roof swap has the full reasoning.

Dry working days by month in Ashford
  1. 22Jan
  2. 17Feb
  3. 21Mar
  4. 23Apr
  5. 21May
  6. 27Jun
  7. 20Jul
  8. 26Aug
  9. 18Sep
  10. 21Oct
  11. 23Nov
  12. 25Dec

dry working days, the three highest picked out. Average of 2024 and 2025.

Rain at night in Ashford

A noise night is one with at least an hour of moderate rain (0.5 mm or more) between 11pm and 7am. Ashford had 66 a year, about the same as the 65 of the average town, and 6 nights with a heavy hour over 4 mm.

In the lab, heavy rain on 25 mm polycarbonate measures 64.6 dB against 52.0 dB for double glazed roof glass. Nobody has published the same test for aluminium panel roofs, so we will not put a number on ours. How loud rain is on each kind of roof sets out what is measured.

934 wet hours a year, by how hard it rains
  • Light (under 0.5 mm an hour)484 h
  • Moderate (0.5 to 4 mm)429 h
  • Heavy (over 4 mm)21 h
Kendal: 92Carlisle: 77Penrith: 79Barrow-in-Furness: 86Workington: 84Whitehaven: 89Blackpool: 82Burnley: 84Blackburn: 87Chorley: 89Durham: 53Darlington: 50Hartlepool: 55Middlesbrough: 48Sunderland: 50Gateshead: 49Morpeth: 51Hexham: 61Stockton-on-Tees: 50Whitley Bay: 50Ripon: 58Skipton: 78Whitby: 59Bridlington: 63Goole: 51Castleford: 52Dewsbury: 55Northallerton: 48Thirsk: 51Driffield: 59Boston: 53Skegness: 55Spalding: 50Louth: 57Grimsby: 55Scunthorpe: 55Gainsborough: 51Sleaford: 51Bourne: 56Horncastle: 57King's Lynn: 58Great Yarmouth: 61Lowestoft: 59Thetford: 59Cromer: 58Dereham: 58Felixstowe: 52Sudbury: 52Haverhill: 54Newmarket: 56Maidstone: 61Canterbury: 60Ashford: 66Folkestone: 72Dover: 70Margate: 55Sevenoaks: 66Tonbridge: 62Gravesend: 53Whitstable: 57Brighton: 69Worthing: 72Eastbourne: 70Hastings: 70Crawley: 62Horsham: 65Chichester: 69Bognor Regis: 67Haywards Heath: 67Lewes: 73Southampton: 65Portsmouth: 66Winchester: 66Andover: 63Fareham: 71Bournemouth: 69Poole: 68Weymouth: 72Dorchester: 75Aldershot: 59Plymouth: 80Torquay: 77Barnstaple: 87Newton Abbot: 73Exmouth: 66Tiverton: 79Truro: 86Falmouth: 80Penzance: 92Newquay: 78Yeovil: 68Wells: 78Minehead: 67Burnham-on-Sea: 70Chard: 73Shepton Mallet: 78Warminster: 70Melksham: 64Calne: 63Marlborough: 68Ashford
Ashford and the towns around it, sized by noise nights a year

Near Ashford

We fit panel roofs across the Medway valley, the Weald and the coast from Thanet round to Folkestone. The nearest towns in our ledger:

All Kent towns or every town we cover.

Guide prices in Ashford

The same as everywhere we work, fitted with the old roof taken away. Style nudges it; the survey fixes it in writing. What the price covers.

Guide prices from, by style and size
Style Small Medium Large
Lean-to £3,000 £4,000 £5,000
Edwardian £3,150 £4,200 £5,250
Victorian £3,300 £4,400 £5,500
Gable end £3,350 £4,500 £5,600
P-Shape £3,550 £4,700 £5,900
Oak effect glazing bars with white panel ceiling between them
Oak effect bars, white panels between.

Questions from Ashford

How many dry days does Ashford get for fitting a roof?

Our ledger counts 261 dry working days a year in Ashford, days with under 0.2 mm of rain between 8am and 4pm. Most roofs need one; we pick it from the forecast in the week before.

Is a polycarbonate roof noisier in Ashford than elsewhere?

The roof is the same anywhere; the rain is not. Ashford has 66 noise nights a year against 65 in the average town we track, and 21 hours of heavy rain.

What does a new conservatory roof cost in Ashford?

Guide prices are the same as everywhere we work: from £3,000 for a small roof, £4,000 for medium and £5,000 for large, fixed in writing after a free survey.

Do you keep my conservatory frame?

Usually, yes. The bars, the dwarf wall and the frame get tested at the survey, and only a sound frame gets a panel roof price.

Worth reading before a Ashford survey

Price a panel roof in Ashford

Tap through seven questions for a guide range. The surveyor then measures, tests the frame and commits the figure to paper.