Conservatory

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Right I want a conservatory and and 2 local firms plus the chap who used to own a conservatory company, who fitted our kitchen to come and give us quotes this week.

We want it 3m x 6 m, there is a manhole to be moved and some landscape ing to be dome, will go into lawn, so will need a paving stone path round it to back fecnh. It also will back onto a flat roof.

Anyhow want to be able to use it all year round.

Confused about the amount of choice, all glass, dwarf wall,or corner pillars in brick. Glass roof, orangery type or even a pitched roof with velux windows in.

Know it is down to personal choice but like I say, need to be able to use it all year round as I am disabled and it will be my space.

Ideas and suggestions please

smashingyour...

It will be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.

If you want all year use build an extension.

Furts

A pitched roof with velux windows is a permanent roof and will be subject to design, by someone, even if the builder. It will also be subject to the Building Regulations so there is inspection and cost here.

A normal pvcu conservatory will not be able to receive a conventional pitched roof.

The current fashion and accepted practice is moving away from pvcu conservatories. They were products of the previous decade when fewer searching questions were asked.

The conservatory industry is fighting back by selling the idea of mock pitched roofs fitted to conservatories. Why? Because the old roofs were not durable, they got discoloured and dirty, and they overheated.

It could be your main design criteria is your disability. If so read up on Lifetime Homes, Part M of the Building regulations and DDA Requirements. Give thought to your heights on sockets and switches, the type of door and window furniture, the threshold between your internal door and the conservatory, the door widths, the exit threshold and paving levels from your conservatory, the colour of your ironmongery, the location and type of heating and controls, the height of your window cills,...these are just some that spring to mind.

For your peace of mind I suggest you do not jump into this without some serious questioning.

smashingyour...

Furts wrote: »

A pitched roof with velux windows is a permanent roof and will be subject to design, by someone, even if the builder. It will also be subject to the Building Regulations so there is inspection and cost here.

A normal pvcu conservatory will not be able to receive a conventional pitched roof.

The current fashion and accepted practice is moving away from pvcu conservatories. They were products of the previous decade when fewer searching questions were asked.

The conservatory industry is fighting back by selling the idea of mock pitched roofs fitted to conservatories. Why? Because the old roofs were not durable, they got discoloured and dirty, and they overheated.

It could be your main design criteria is your disability. If so read up on Lifetime Homes, Part M of the Building regulations and DDA Requirements. Give thought to your heights on sockets and switches, the type of door and window furniture, the threshold between your internal door and the conservatory, the door widths, the exit threshold and paving levels from your conservatory, the colour of your ironmongery, the location and type of heating and controls, the height of your window cills,...these are just some that spring to mind.

For your peace of mind I suggest you do not jump into this without some serious questioning.

I think the op meant a pitched uPVC roof.

cyclonebri1

smashingyour... wrote: »

It will be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.

If you want all year use build an extension.

But the op wants a conservatory?

Look, it will have different uses throughout the year, yes, sometimes it will be too hot for certain purposes, and again, sometimes it will be too cold.

Big differences between a conservatory and an extension, the OP knows what they want.;)

macman

'Move a manhole' rings alarm bells. You can easily do that. Possibly moving the drain that is serves is the real problem.

McKneff

Can you not go more than 3 metres. if yu have a dwarf will it will be double skinned and Im getting the feeling that its going to look like a long corridor to be honest.

And yes, you will need to heat it in winter and ours is far to stifling to sit in in summer.

smashingyour...

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But the op wants a conservatory?

Look, it will have different uses throughout the year, yes, sometimes it will be too hot for certain purposes, and again, sometimes it will be too cold.

Big differences between a conservatory and an extension, the OP knows what they want.;)

But the op wants all year use as their space and not as a green house.

smashingyour...

McKneff wrote: »

Can you not go more than 3 metres. if yu have a dwarf will it will be double skinned and Im getting the feeling that its going to look like a long corridor to be honest.

And yes, you will need to heat it in winter and ours is far to stifling to sit in in summer.

If the op is going to have heating a grass roof is the only way to go.

Are you sure they will want a conservatory if it's stifling in the summer?

SuzieSue

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But the op wants a conservatory?

Look, it will have different uses throughout the year, yes, sometimes it will be too hot for certain purposes, and again, sometimes it will be too cold.

Big differences between a conservatory and an extension, the OP knows what they want.;)

If he's had a conservatory before then he will know what he will be getting. If he hasn't then he will get a shock when he finds that it is freezing in winter and too hot in the summer (unless it is north-facing).

I_have_spoken

Mine is 'old skool' with double-skin polycarbonate roof panels and faces south west.

Even in Scotland, this week it's been over 40C with the blinds down.

That said, mine has a radiator off the C/H, so I was using it from May.