Adding a conservatory to your home should add value, but often a glass roof conservatory can bring problems of temperature regulation and leakage. If your conservatory is freezing in the winter and boiling in the summer, perhaps it’s time for a retro-fitted solid roof.
While having a conservatory built onto your home should theoretically add to its value, with the minds of housebuyers sharply focussed on EPC values, a tired looking and thermally inefficient conservatory could actually reduce a home’s value.
While a glazed conservatory roof can be a burden, a solid roof can offer a high-quality alternative which is better insulated, more robust, and provides a more stylish finishing touch to a space. It can incorporate skylight options and rooflights, so there’s no need to lose all the light you enjoyed from your glass conservatory roof.
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Solid Roof Fitting
A solid roof with multiple layers of insulation will be much more thermally efficient than a glazed or PVC roof, achieving the aim of keeping the conservatory warmer in winter and cooler in summer without having to pay for extra heating or cooling, and saving you money every year. This enhanced performance means that the conservatory becomes a much more practical space for everyday use whatever the weather, so you could well use it as a dining room, office, home gym or playroom. A solid tiled roof also significantly reduces sun glare, preventing sun bleaching to fixtures and fittings and removing the need to fit blinds to the windows of your conservatory. In addition to enabling you to better enjoy your home, this provides a clear saleable proposition for any potential buyers.
The typical cost of having a new conservatory fitted with a solid roof is far lower than for a full extension – depending on your chosen design, a standard Edwardian-style conservatory of around 4x5m can be fitted with this innovative roof for around £9,000. A full extension would probably cost three to four times that amount.
Fitting your existing conservatory with a solid roof rather than building a new extension will also save you the cost of planning, siteworks and labour, and the extent of foundations for a masonry extension will also be much greater than for a conservatory. Typically, work to fit a solid roof on a conservatory will not need planning permission, and can be done in days rather than weeks.
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