One Dry Day

Conservatory roof replacement in Melksham

Across 2024 and 2025 the Met Office 2 km model puts 944 mm a year on Melksham, which makes it the 40th wettest of the 100 towns we counted. On 264 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: 64 nights a year bring an hour of moderate or heavier rain, 51st highest of 100. We replace polycarbonate and glass conservatory roofs in Melksham with 75 mm insulated panel roofs from £3,000, fitted onto the frame you have.

264
dry working days a year
64
noise nights a year
944 mm
rain a year
Victorian conservatory with a white insulated panel roof on a semi
A Victorian with its new white panel roof.

Melksham'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 Melksham, January 2024 to December 2025.

20241,132 mm of rain, 256 dry working days
2025756 mm of rain, 272 dry working days

When to book in Melksham

August, March and November gave Melksham 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 46, ending in April 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 Melksham
  1. 24Jan
  2. 17Feb
  3. 25Mar
  4. 22Apr
  5. 23May
  6. 22Jun
  7. 23Jul
  8. 26Aug
  9. 18Sep
  10. 22Oct
  11. 24Nov
  12. 21Dec

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

Rain at night in Melksham

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. Melksham had 64 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.

1,008 wet hours a year, by how hard it rains
  • Light (under 0.5 mm an hour)504 h
  • Moderate (0.5 to 4 mm)473 h
  • Heavy (over 4 mm)31 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: 68Melksham
Melksham and the towns around it, sized by noise nights a year

Near Melksham

We fit panel roofs across the Levels, the Mendips and the chalk towns of west Wiltshire. The nearest towns in our ledger:

All Somerset and Wiltshire towns or every town we cover.

Guide prices in Melksham

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
Grey framed conservatory with a white panel ceiling
Grey frames under a plain white ceiling.

Questions from Melksham

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

Our ledger counts 264 dry working days a year in Melksham, 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 Melksham than elsewhere?

The roof is the same anywhere; the rain is not. Melksham has 64 noise nights a year against 65 in the average town we track, and 31 hours of heavy rain.

What does a new conservatory roof cost in Melksham?

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 Melksham survey

Price a panel roof in Melksham

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