Dome rooflight replacement in Cobham

What the job costs in Cobham

Guide ranges for supply & fit, per dome; building control notice fee extra on homes in England and Wales. Your price is fixed in a written quote after we have seen photos or surveyed. Scaffold, access towers or a crane are priced separately if the job needs them, and building control fees, where a job needs them, are shown as their own line.

Coverage in and around Cobham

Jobs across KT11, KT13 and KT14 are part of our normal cover for Cobham. We are not an office on the high street. Our fitting teams come out to the property from wherever they are working that week. Neighbouring places such as Esher and Weybridge are covered on the same terms, so a house on the edge of town is no harder to book than one in the centre.

Your dome rooflights or ours

Your unit or ours, the fitting standard is the same. For supply and fit we choose a dome rooflight to suit the roof and price it with the installation. For fit-only we work with what you have, after confirming it arrived undamaged, that it matches the builder's opening, and that the upstand will sit at the height the maker asks for. Report any transit damage to the seller, as the product cover is theirs and the maker's. Our written guarantee applies to the fitting itself.

Included in the work

• Adaptor or packing fitted where the old kerb needs it
• New multi-skin dome or glass unit fixed and sealed
• Kerb checked for rot, size and height before the new unit goes on
• Upgrading to glass — We check whether the kerb suits a glass unit before recommending one.
• Is the kerb sound? — We check each kerb for rot and movement before quoting a dome swap.

What happens on the day

On the day, you need to be in at the start and at the end. In between, the fitters get on with it. They will want the room below cleared where possible, a parking spot if you have one, and somewhere to set the unit down safely. After checking the opening and the upstand or flashing, they fix a dome rooflight, seal it and finish the inside. Packaging and any old unit leave with them unless the quote says otherwise.

Do you need permission in Cobham?

Replacing a rooflight in an English home is a controlled fitting: it has to be self-certified by a scheme-registered installer or notified to building control. We are not registered with a competent person scheme, so replacements we fit are notified with a building notice, and the new unit has to meet current energy limits. Adding a new one usually means a building regulations application, because joists or rafters are trimmed. On the planning side, most house rooflights are permitted development if they project 0.15 m or less; on a side slope the glass must be obscured and fixed unless the opening part is over 1.7 m above the floor.

Getting a price from photos

For fit-only work, the product details matter most: the link, the spec sheet, or a photo of the label on the box. Alongside that, send pictures of the roof and the ceiling below, approximate opening sizes, the type of roof covering, and how someone would get onto the roof. For supply and fit, the same photos and sizes do the job. Finish with your postcode, such as KT11.

Common questions in Cobham

For a free, no-obligation quote in Cobham, use the form or call us with the details of your roof.