Neighbour's new conservatory

brummiebabe

woodbutcher wrote:

If the conservatory is the size you say it is then it is well in the permitted allowance providing they haven't used up any of their allowance somewhere else.There are rules and regs for conservatories but they are not very stringent and easy to accomodate.I have built hundreds of them for a reason.It is a cheap and easy way to add a room onto a house.Unless you have very specific reasons for complaint,then i wouldn't fall out with the neighbours over it.

No I agree...just got me angry that they didn't have the courtsesy to mention it!! Also, it's not helped that they've been doing the work up to 8.30 - 9pm, when our kids are in bed!!!

We've decided to put some trellis up to make the fence a couple of foot higher, and then get climbing plants (don't know what yet!!) That way it takes the focus off it and gives us back some privacy!!!

Thanks for all the advice though - very helpful!:T

Rikki

You may find they will fit blinds on the window which faces your property.

Spendless

We have this with our neighbours. They bought the house with the conservatory already there and the people who built it, they did it when this house was occupied by an old lady who only lived in one part of the house and they rarely saw. What my neighbours have done is put blinds up, to give both of us more privacy. When some other people I know had a conservatory a few years ago I was very surprised they didn't take this into account with their joined on neighbour, especially since they didn't get blinds. They have frosted the windows using one of those aerosol cans.

I would suggest you ask your neighbours before the conservatory is finished what they intend to do re privacy to discover if they intend having blinds/can get frosted glass put in etc.

gromituk

woodbutcher wrote:

It is a cheap and easy way to add a room onto a house.

Cheap now; pay later. Lovely at certain times of the year; costs a fortune to heat or is unbearably hot at other times. They are not substitutes for "habitable rooms", which is precisely why building regs do not apply. I have a conservatory which I adore during the summer, but which is shut away most of the winter.

woodbutcher_2

I said they were cheap and easy.I never said they were practical.Despite building hundreds of them,i don't have one myself,that says it all really.Better off with a sunroom.

gromituk

OK - just so that no-one gets the impression that they do not have their down-sides.

Mr_Proctalgia

You just wait till they start getting quotes for the blinds as well!!!!!!!!!!
Its like buying the factory LOL

I'mcomingbackasaman

Sun room with a hot tub would be brill! Somewhere to keep my sun lounger as well, it spends most of its time folded up taking up cupboard space :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

gromituk

What's the difference between a sun room and a conservatory? Is a sun room just a properly-insulated construction with large south-facing windows?

gromituk

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

You just wait till they start getting quotes for the blinds as well!!!!!!!!!!

Yes indeed. Cost me £700 for half my (glass) roof, and that was with 25% discount in the autumn. Am attempting to motorise them myself!