Roof lantern installation in March

Guide prices in March

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 PE15 and neighbouring districts

Jobs across PE15, PE16 and PE13 are part of our normal cover for March. 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 Wisbech and Ely 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 roof lanterns or ours

A damaged delivery is a frequent snag on fit-only work. Before the day, unpack a roof lantern, 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.

Included in the work

• Glass cleaned and packaging cleared from the roof
• Upstand checked for size, level and square before the kit is opened
• Internal trims fitted to the ring beam or upstand
• Level, not to a fall — We set or check the kerb level unless your lantern's maker says otherwise.
• Lanterns and planning — We check whether your lantern can go in without a planning application.

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 roof lantern 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 March?

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.

Before you get in touch

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 PE15, and we can price it.

Common questions in March

Planning a roof lantern in March? Tell us about the roof and we will come back with a clear price in writing.