Rooflight and Skylight Services

Start with the roof

The first fork is pitched or flat, because it determines almost everything else.

Pitched roof. A roof window sits in the plane of the slope. On a loft conversion, a bedroom in the roof, or a slope over a landing, this is the product. Where the property is listed, in a conservation area, or simply old enough that appearance matters, a conservation rooflight does the same job in a form that sits lower and reads as historic. Where you want daylight in a room with no external wall and no roof slope available, a sun tunnel brings it down a mirrored tube.

Flat roof. A flat roof rooflight sits on a kerb and is the standard answer over an extension. Where the extension is large or the room formal, a roof lantern gives height, structure and a great deal more light. Where there is a terrace above habitable space, walk on glazing puts daylight under a surface people stand on.

Then the room

A rooflight over a kitchen is doing a different job from one over a bathroom or a bedroom.

Rooms that get hot need ventilation at high level, which points at an opening unit and usually at a motorised one with a rain sensor. Rooms that face south or west need solar control glass whatever else is decided. Bedrooms need blackout provision planned rather than added later. Bathrooms need obscure glazing considered and the extract fan checked, because a rooflight does not ventilate a room on its own.

Replacement rather than new

A large part of what we do is not a new opening at all. Misted units, failed seals, leaking flashings, rotten timber around an old frame and windows that no longer close are all replacement work, and it is a different conversation from a new installation.

If you have an existing unit that has failed, start there rather than with a new product. The opening is usually reusable, which makes it the cheapest job in this trade, and the specification of the replacement is a separate decision from whether to replace at all.

What every job includes

A survey before a fixed price, an itemised written quotation that names the product and the flashing kit rather than describing a rooflight in general terms, the insulation collar as standard rather than as an extra, disposal of what comes out, and a ten year guarantee on our workmanship alongside the manufacturer’s warranty on the product.

Where the work is notifiable we handle Building Control. Where consent is needed we prepare the material for the application. Neither is charged as a separate consultancy.

Not sure which you need

Send a photograph of the roof and a description of the room. Between those two we can usually tell you which service page applies and roughly what to expect, without anyone visiting, and that costs nothing.

One installer for the whole job

Everything on this page is done by us rather than subcontracted out. The survey, the specification, the order, the fitting, the weathering, the making good and the guarantee are one company, which means there is nobody to point at when something needs sorting out.