DIY Conservatories - Supplier in the UK

The Edwardian is one of the most popular styles available on the market. The way to think of the Edwardian or Georgian Conservatory is that you utilise the maximum space available. With clever double door positioning you can ensure that you get the best use of space within your design to make sure that walk ways do not cause corridors in your building blocking the position of furniture. This design lends itself nicely to go on to the back of most two storey houses sometimes with a full height wall on one side or both sides to make sure that you are not looking at your neighbours fence.

This is the classic looking conservatory adding style and value to any home. With its three bay front designs, great panoramic views can be enjoyed from every aspect. If a contemporary design is what you are looking for, this is the style for you. With a long ridge and a spoke roof, this design fits well into most surroundings without looking out of place. As with all of our conservatories, they are made with 100% virgin material ensuring a long life without fading, even in the most extreme weather conditions.

When considering a conservatory for a bungalow most people immediately think of a lean to design. Then they worry that they don't have enough room above the door to fix the wall plate under the soffit. This does not have to be the case. All we need are a few simple measurements and then we can instantly design your roof to fit onto the barge board and for the frames to go under the soffit. We can do this with a lean to, hipped back Edwardians and hipped back Victorian style conservatories.

This is the most popular of all of the diy conservatories. This maybe down to price but is also down to the ease and speed of construction. It is a big favourite with the traditional builder as it is highly practical and versatile in height restricted situations. Sometimes called a sun lounge, the lean to can be a great dining room with clean lines and simple design, a great living space is easy to create. Why not create your own online quotation and start saving now.

Very similar to the Edwardian or Georgian due to its square or rectangular footprint, the Gable front conservatory is a stylish addition to any home. With its large shaped frame on the front and its cathedral like interior a real sense of space can be created very quickly with this design. This style looks its best on taller buildings. These look especially good on the front of barn conversions as the entrance foyer.

With its clever roof design the P shaped offers the best of both worlds. Whilst maintain the looks and the appeal of the Victorian conservatory whilst giving the practicality of a lean to maximises the space available. Offering great value for money, the P shape designs are often overlooked as they look a lot more expensive than they truly are. Why not check out our prices, don’t forget that you can switch the rectangle part to a tail left or tail right quotation online now.

In our view the Diy Edwardian double hipped is the best design for a bungalow. No longer are you restricted by trying to fit your roof between the top of the door and the underside of the roof. With its large box gutter the Edwardian double hipped can bolt straight on to the existing barge board and allow the rain to run from your bungalow roof and into to a joint structural box gutter and away. The roof for this system attaches to the box gutter creating a fourth roof panel from the ridge back towards the house wall.

This classic design gives you all the benefits of a panoramic view on the front of the Victorian conservatory whilst the roof hips back towards the house. Once inside this style of Victorian design you can see how the four roof panels interlock with the box gutter allowing you to project onto height restricted buildings. Great for single storey buildings such as out-houses or garages, the Victorian double hipped mixes classic design with flexibility and practicality.

Not the normal self design but this Diy style gives a multitude of advantages in different situations. Firstly with its lean to style roof and hipped ends it is sometimes mistakenly called a hipped lean to. Although its style is similar, gulling conservatories have a cropped front corner on both sides. This gives it a sleeker looking self design that quite often fits into spaces that have an obstacle or are an uneven shape, but you don’t want to lose the projection.

Pilkington K glass is a low emission glass. This means that when used, you lose less heat from your conservatory than when using traditional clear glass saving more money for yourself. Pilkington K glass can be toughened the same way as any other glass to maintain its safety properties but has the additional benefit of a thin metallic coating being on the inside of the unit. This type of low emission glass allows the sun's warming rays to pass through whilst reflecting any radiant heat back into the room from radiators etc. If you want to be selfish and keep those bills as low as possible this is eco way to do it.

Celsius glass is another high specification glass similar to Pilkington K glass but without the large advertising budget so it is less well known. In terms of its performance compared to normal clear glass it offers a 72% heat reflection when used in roofs and increases thermal insulation by a whopping 50%. The advantage that it has over K glass when used in the roof of a conservatory is that it has an easy clean coating that lets the dirt just slide off, similar in a way to a non-stick frying pan. This can be achieved with the Pilkington range with a product called Pilkington active Glass.

The Victorian design tends to limit furniture positions unless you choose quite a large size of self build. The Edwardian, with no diagonal facets, is the easiest of all the conservatories to mark out and build for yourself. The lean to design is great in height restricted builds, when fitting to a bungalow but a Hipped Backed Edwardian with the box gutter bolted on the fascia can work just as well. If you would like to read more, then do so here.

We often get asked can I extend my current conservatory to make it bigger ?

Yes you can, but it’s not going to be the easiest of jobs. If you are keen on taking on such a project for yourself then check this out.

What are the main criteria for selecting a self build conservatory ?

Are All DIY Conservatory Kits The Same ?

Not at all, why not take a look around our site and make your own decision. The best way to do this for your self is to start with our video pages and get a feel about the self build conservatory process. Then Check out our specification and read more about our great quality kits