One Dry Day

Conservatory roof replacement in Dereham

Across 2024 and 2025 the Met Office 2 km model puts 865 mm a year on Dereham, which makes it the 50th wettest of the 100 towns we counted. On 257 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: 58 nights a year bring an hour of moderate or heavier rain, 66th highest of 100. We replace polycarbonate and glass conservatory roofs in Dereham with 75 mm insulated panel roofs from £3,000, fitted onto the frame you have.

257
dry working days a year
58
noise nights a year
865 mm
rain a year
Panel roof lean-to on a bungalow beside a patio garden
A bungalow lean-to with a white panel roof.

Dereham'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 Dereham, January 2024 to December 2025.

20241,029 mm of rain, 247 dry working days
2025701 mm of rain, 267 dry working days

When to book in Dereham

August, December and November gave Dereham the best odds of a dry working day; September gave the worst, at 60%.

The longest run of dry working days in a row was 27, ending in November 2024. The longest wait without one was 7 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 Dereham
  1. 22Jan
  2. 20Feb
  3. 22Mar
  4. 20Apr
  5. 22May
  6. 21Jun
  7. 20Jul
  8. 27Aug
  9. 18Sep
  10. 21Oct
  11. 22Nov
  12. 25Dec

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

Rain at night in Dereham

We count a noise night whenever an hour between 11pm and 7am brings 0.5 mm of rain or more, the Met Office's moderate band. Dereham had 58 a year, fewer than 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.

958 wet hours a year, by how hard it rains
  • Light (under 0.5 mm an hour)472 h
  • Moderate (0.5 to 4 mm)465 h
  • Heavy (over 4 mm)22 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: 68Dereham
Dereham and the towns around it, sized by noise nights a year

Near Dereham

We fit panel roofs across the Broads, the Breckland and the Suffolk coast. The nearest towns in our ledger:

All Norfolk and Suffolk towns or every town we cover.

Guide prices in Dereham

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
Window seat under a glossy white panel ceiling
A window seat for wet afternoons.

Questions from Dereham

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

Our ledger counts 257 dry working days a year in Dereham, 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 Dereham than elsewhere?

The roof is the same anywhere; the rain is not. Dereham has 58 noise nights a year against 65 in the average town we track, and 22 hours of heavy rain.

What does a new conservatory roof cost in Dereham?

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 Dereham survey

Price a panel roof in Dereham

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