What would you do? Need to replace conservatory somehow...

FreeBear

kimwp said:

ThisIsWeird said:

Jaguar_Skills said:

There’s the photo of the conservatory 👍

Thanks! I was hoping it would be that style. Man, what a project! You should be able to turn that into a fully-functioning, all-year-round dream jobbie for very little money. £30k-ish?

Yes, yes, yes - turn it into a garden room. An orangery. They are completely different to 'conservatories', in both function and appearance.

Start your Pinteresting.

If they are in good condition, you can even reuse most of these windows. You can paint them a more suitable colour - typically sage green, or anthracite - but that's up to you - but I'd lose half of them, replacing them with blocks of 'wall'.

'Wall' would be SIPS built on site - ie, 6" timber frame, ply-faced, and filled with insulation. Outside can be clad or rendered. Insulated solid roof, with skylights. Or, a single large square skylantern in the middle of the pitched surrounding roof will emphasise the orangery look.

No BC needed, as you wouldn't be - cough - making it a fully 'habitable' space, but it would be; this will be as well insulated as the rest of your house.

Start Pinteresting, get some interior shots that make you go 'ooooh!', and use that to inform the payout of windows and walls. Lots of architrave inside around the windows. You won't want to leave this room.

From the ad,  the kitchen seems to be open to the not-insulated-to-todays-standards conservatory, so I think building control probably wouldn't be happy with the current situation as (unless there are doors not shown), it should be up to the standard of a fully habitable space already.

It won't be up to standard with a polycarbonate roof - The u-value of that stuff is way, way too low.

Jaguar_Skills

FIREDreamer said:

Assuming I found the right house, took 5 seconds to image search on iPad (didn’t know you could do this, useful to know), the conservatory looks fine to me. You might be able to put a more solid coloured roof on it to make it more like a normal room in temperature and appearance?

That is it.   Conservatory isn't fine.   Too hot, cracked in corners etc. 

ThisIsWeird

Jaguar_Skills said:

FIREDreamer said:

Assuming I found the right house, took 5 seconds to image search on iPad (didn’t know you could do this, useful to know), the conservatory looks fine to me. You might be able to put a more solid coloured roof on it to make it more like a normal room in temperature and appearance?

That is it.   Conservatory isn't fine.   Too hot, cracked in corners etc. 

It's a darned fine starting point :-)

It's a terrific size, already has what looks like decent flooring, has dwarf walls, presumably with adequate foundations (Cracks? Pah!).

The only thing wrong with that connie is that it is a connie.

If you remove half the windows, replace these with wall, frame them with architrave and thick cills, add insulation to the insides of the dwarfs, and replace that roof with an insulated version with skylights or a lantern, you'll have a dreamy room.

I personally think you'd be nuts to remove that connie and build something different - the cost alone will be multiple more.

You also have a lovely patio area to its right (as you look at the pic) to fit a flexible, covered, outdoor space/room.

Don't waste money on this lovely house - use what you already have to better it.

10 seconds work on the first Google page.

Typhoon2000

i would just get an insulated roof, sort out the cracks and maybe air conditioning and find something else to do with the spare £200k.

Albermarle

Gallery of Outdoor Kitchen Design Projects – Kitchen In The Garden

Jaguar_Skills

ThisIsWeird said:

Jaguar_Skills said:

FIREDreamer said:

Assuming I found the right house, took 5 seconds to image search on iPad (didn’t know you could do this, useful to know), the conservatory looks fine to me. You might be able to put a more solid coloured roof on it to make it more like a normal room in temperature and appearance?

That is it.   Conservatory isn't fine.   Too hot, cracked in corners etc. 

It's a darned fine starting point :-)

It's a terrific size, already has what looks like decent flooring, has dwarf walls, presumably with adequate foundations (Cracks? Pah!).

The only thing wrong with that connie is that it is a connie.

If you remove half the windows, replace these with wall, frame them with architrave and thick cills, add insulation to the insides of the dwarfs, and replace that roof with an insulated version with skylights or a lantern, you'll have a dreamy room.

I personally think you'd be nuts to remove that connie and build something different - the cost alone will be multiple more.

You also have a lovely patio area to its right (as you look at the pic) to fit a flexible, covered, outdoor space/room.

Don't waste money on this lovely house - use what you already have to better it.

10 seconds work on the first Google page.

These look great.   What did you search?!

ThisIsWeird

Google - 'orangery' and 'images'. But there's tons more out there.

Your current connie is a great size, has dwarf walls - so almost certainly a 'reasonable' foundation - and looks to be in good overall condition.

It just doesn't make sense to me to lose all that and start again - the bulk of the work has been done!

It just needs to be less of a 'connie'. That means an insulated, solid, lightweight roof, and a careful redesign of the use of windows. Ie, they become a feature rather than a glassy bank.

You can retain the existing roof, insulate underneath, and lightweight (plastic sheet) tiles on top, or you can remove it and go 'flat'-roof like most of the above designs, and add a skylantern or two to that.

But the main visual thing, to me, is the additional wall sections - that's the bit that transforms a C into an O. And these can be rendered - like the white one above - or brick-slip clad. Or timber-clad. Or cladding-clad.

moneysaver1978

I am with ThisIWeird, it would be a great shame to knock it all down especially if the foundations are solid.

What a house and I would have loved that conservatory as a starting point!