Flat rooflight installation in Ely

Guide prices in Ely

Guide ranges for supply & fit. 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.

Covering CB6 and neighbouring districts

Jobs across CB6, CB7 and CB25 are part of our normal cover for Ely. 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 Newmarket and March are covered on the same terms, so a house on the edge of town is no harder to book than one in the centre.

Buying your own, or letting us supply

A damaged delivery is a frequent snag on fit-only work. Before the day, unpack a flat rooflight, photograph it, and tell the seller about any cracks or scuffs, because claims are much easier made early. We will also ask for the model or a link, so we can read the maker's instructions and check the builder's opening size and the upstand height it expects. If everything lines up, we fit it. If not, we explain what needs changing first.

What we do on the day

• Upstand checked or built to the maker's internal and external sizes
• Membrane, felt or GRP finished to the frame the way the maker shows
• Reveal lined and trimmed inside, with the glass left clean
• Solar gain on south-facing roofs — We ask which way the roof faces and how the room is used before suggesting glass.
• Weight of large panes — We check the weight of the unit against how we will get it onto the roof.

Fitting your flat rooflight, step by step

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. A flat 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.

Planning, building control and Ely

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.

What to send for a quick quote

Start with your phone. Take a picture of the roof where the unit goes or already sits, then one from inside looking up. Measure what you can, even roughly. Tell us what the roof is covered with and how a fitter would reach it: ladder, garden access or scaffold. Bought it already? Send the link or spec. Add your full postcode, for example in CB6, and we can price it.

Common questions in Ely

Got a unit waiting to go in, or need one sourced? Either way, start with your Ely address and a couple of photos.