Guest Electric Yetis Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Hello, Been looking at getting a conservatory for a while but would prefer to go with a company that has a few recommendations. Anyone on here have any experience of getting one? Looking at google there a surprisingly few reviews on companies.
Dr The Singh Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 If you can afford it acoid the typical conservatory and go for a brick extension with sky windows etc. Having one, in window there dead cold, in summer, dead hot!!
Webbo Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 I was going to complain about the bloke that built mine but you know what they say about people in glass houses.
Stadt Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 I thought Ken was making a thread about how David Cameron is a liar.
Rincewind Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 The I thought Ken was making a thread about how David Cameron is a lier. There is no need to.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 If you can afford it acoid the typical conservatory and go for a brick extension with sky windows etc. Having one, in window there dead cold, in summer, dead hot!! Totally agree with this. The house I grew up in had exactly this as you've described and so it was added to the central heating etc. sky windows, a huge sliding patio door onto the garden. Lovely in summer and cosy in winter. If you can afford it. It's by far the better way to go about it.
maynefox Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 I must be tired. I thought this was going to be a topic about the Conservative Party "Conservatories"
Rincewind Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 I must be tired. I thought this was going to be a topic about the Conservative Party " Tax Free Conservatories"
SystonFox Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 IMO they're for old people. My mate wants one and he is 25 years old. Jesus man grow some balls and tell your mrs no.
Strokes Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 IMO they're for old people. My mate wants one and he is 25 years old. Jesus man grow some balls and tell your mrs no. How much does it cost for a room you can use about four times a year?
Rincewind Posted 2 March 2014 Posted 2 March 2014 Wookie my comment was not aimed at you. It was meant to read 'there is no need to make a thread about Cameron being a liar. It is a 'No shit Sherlock' situation.
RobHawk Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Totally agree with this. The house I grew up in had exactly this as you've described and so it was added to the central heating etc. sky windows, a huge sliding patio door onto the garden. Lovely in summer and cosy in winter. If you can afford it. It's by far the better way to go about it. I'd 3rd this statement. Having had a conservatory in my current house i would never ever pay to have one new. We literally never used it! Only thing it was good for was keeping the rabbits in during the winter, and drying clothes in during the summer!
Guest Electric Yetis Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 Our house isn't the biggest and we have two young children. Would be used more so as a playroom with some extra storage space
cambridgefox Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 My mums well posh! She honestly has one as a green house.False wall at the back and grows grapes in it.She also has one on the house,but has gone for some expensive glass so it doesn't overheat in the summer and has radiators in it for the winter.Said she was posh!
Rincewind Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 My sister has one. She will have a bar in it when her fella gets round to putting it up.
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 If you can afford it acoid the typical conservatory and go for a brick extension with sky windows etc. Having one, in window there dead cold, in summer, dead hot!! My dad has one with the solar glass and underfloor heating, it keeps a good temperature most of the time. But yeah, they're usually appalling in extremes of the weather, and usually bloody damp as well
Zingari Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 I've got one that's about 16 ft by 8 with that plastic triple layered roofing sheets and there is not much of a slope to them , so It doesn't half make a racket when it rains.
SystonFox Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 How much does it cost for a room you can use about four times a year? The one my mate wants is costing them about 4k but his father in law is a builder so is robbing a load of other bits so likely to be cheaper. If a house I purchased had one that wouldn't be so bad but personally I would never get one built
Bellend Sebastian Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 I think conservatories work OK if you use them to make a room bigger rather than just have it stuck on the outside. A continuous floor, radiator linked to the rest of the central heating, any exterior brickwork that ends up being indoors being plastered and decorated the same as the room it's joined on to make them feel like part of the house. I think the worst thing you can do is stick them over an existing exit from the house and keep the external doors. It just seems to discourage people from ever actually going in them
Trav Le Bleu Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 I need a house first . On the plus side, I could probably afford a conservatory.
Buzzell Posted 3 March 2014 Posted 3 March 2014 The house I rent has a conservatory. Hardly use it to be honest. I never sat down in there, it's just too cold but can imagine it being quite nice to sit in when it's the summer. At the minute it's just a storage room for junk.
Raj Posted 7 March 2014 Posted 7 March 2014 First time this year we've used ours...may have its drawbacks but its lovely when its used!!!!!!
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