Roof access hatch installation in Evington

What the job costs in Evington

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.

Fitting across Evington and nearby

Jobs across LE2, LE18 and LE5 are part of our normal cover for Evington. 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 Oadby and Wigston Magna 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

There are two ways to do this. Supply and fit means we source a roof access hatch that suits your roof and install it, so one company answers for both the product choice and the fitting. Fit-only means you buy the unit and we install it. With fit-only, the product warranty stays with the maker or seller, and our written guarantee covers the fitting work. Both routes get the same checks on the opening, the upstand and the maker's instructions before anything is fixed.

Included in the work

• Kerb checked or built square, level and to the maker's height
• Locks, catches or handles checked from inside and out
• Opening and upstand sized for a clear climb-through, not just daylight
• Access hatch or smoke vent — We confirm the hatch is only for access and not part of a building's smoke ventilation.
• How far the lid opens — We check how far the lid swings open and what it swings over.

From arrival to clean-up

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 roof access hatch 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 Evington

England's rules in short: permitted development usually covers a rooflight on a house roof provided it doesn't stick out more than 0.15 m or rise above the ridge, though a listed building always needs consent and some streets have Article 4 directions. Building regulations apply to new openings, and replacements go through building control; as we are not registered with a competent person scheme, we use a building notice and show the fee on the quote. The energy limit for rooflights in existing homes is 2.2 W/m²K, and the 2026 Approved Document L, in force from 24 March 2027, keeps that figure.

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, LE2 or a neighbouring district.

Common questions in Evington

Tell us your postcode, LE2 or close by, and what you want fitted. We will reply with the next steps and a quote.