Electric opening rooflight installation in Ely

Guide prices

Guide ranges for supply & fit; the electrician's final connection is quoted separately. 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.

Is your address covered?

Fitters travel to the job, so the address is what counts. In Ely that means postcode districts CB6, CB7 and CB25, and the same teams can just as easily take on work in Newmarket, about 12 miles away, or March at roughly 13 miles. Survey and fitting dates are offered according to fitter availability, and travel is built into the quote rather than added later.

Fit-only or supply and fit

Which works out better, buying your own or letting us supply? It depends on what you value. Buying your own gives you control of the product and what you pay for it. Letting us supply puts the whole job, unit and fitting, under one written quote. On a customer-supplied unit we still measure it against the opening, look at the upstand, and inspect the condition it arrived in. Warranty on the product sits with whoever sold it, while the fitting carries our own guarantee.

What we do on the day

• Unit fitted, sealed and weathered like a fixed flat rooflight
• Upstand checked or built to suit the unit and its actuator housing
• Cable route planned through the kerb or reveal before the lining goes on
• Rain sensor position — We place the rain sensor where rain will reach it quickly and debris will not cover it.
• Opening onto a side slope — We check where the opening part will sit if the roof is pitched or the unit faces a neighbour.

How a fitting day runs

Morning first: the team arrives, introduces itself and walks through the job with you. Dust sheets go down in the room below and along the route in. Then the opening and upstand, or the flashing on a pitched roof, are checked against the unit's measurements. An electric opening rooflight goes in, is fixed to the maker's pattern and sealed into the roof covering. Inside, the reveal is finished as quoted. Before leaving, the team clears debris and talks you through what was done. Most jobs of this type take one day, plus the electrician's connection.

Regulations for Ely properties

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.

Help us quote accurately

What we cannot see, we have to guess, and guesses make quotes wider. So the more you send, the tighter the price. Useful: shots from the roof or garden, shots from the room underneath, a rough width and length, the roof finish, any access problems, and the product page if you have already ordered. Add the property postcode around CB6 and we will come back with a quote or a survey date.

Common questions in Ely

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