Fit-only rooflight installation in Bath

Guide prices

Guide ranges for labour only — you supply the rooflight. 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 Bath

Jobs across BA1, BA2 and BS31 are part of our normal cover for Bath. 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 Keynsham and Trowbridge 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 rooflights or ours

Your unit or ours, the fitting standard is the same. For supply and fit we choose a 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

• Internal reveal trimmed or lined, with the protective film removed at the end
• Upstand height, level and fall checked, and squareness confirmed across the diagonals
• Opening and upstand measured against the maker's drawing, timber to timber
• Warranty conditions on your unit — We read the warranty terms that came with your rooflight before we fit it.
• Upstand height above the roof — We measure how far the upstand stands above the finished roof surface, including any ballast or walkway.

How a fitting day runs

Fitting days start with a look at the sky. If rain is due, the order of work changes so the roof is never left open to it. A typical day for a rooflight runs like this: set up access, protect the room, open up the roof or prepare the existing kerb or frame, check sizes, fix, seal, then finish inside. On jobs that take more than a day, the opening is weather-sealed overnight. The last hour goes on tidying, waste removal and a walk-round with you.

Do you need permission in Bath?

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

A fast quote needs five things: a photo of the roof from outside, one from the room below, rough sizes of the opening or the space, the roof covering (felt, single-ply, fibreglass, tiles, slate or metal), and a note on access. If you have already bought the unit, add the product link or spec sheet. And give us the postcode, BA1 or a neighbouring district.

Common questions in Bath

Tell us your postcode, BA1 or close by, and what you want fitted. We will reply with the next steps and a quote.