Rooflight replacement in Crowborough

What the job costs in Crowborough

Guide ranges for supply & fit; building control notice fee extra in England and Wales. 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.

Areas around Crowborough we cover

Jobs across TN6, TN7 and TN20 are part of our normal cover for Crowborough. 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 Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield 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 replacement rooflights or ours

Supply and fit tends to suit people who would rather not pick a unit from a catalogue. We look at the roof, the opening and how you use the room, then put a replacement rooflight on the quote that fits all three. Fit-only suits people who already know what they want, or have one on site. We are happy with either. The difference is who stands behind what: on fit-only, the maker or retailer covers the product, and our workmanship guarantee covers the installation.

What we do on the day

• Kerb inspected for rot, height, level and fall once the old unit is off
• Packers, an adaptor or a new insulated upstand where the old kerb falls short
• Building notice given to the council in England and Wales, with its fee on the quote
• Dome to glass upgrades — We check that the opening and kerb suit a flat glass unit before quoting a dome-to-glass swap.
• Leaks that are not the rooflight — We look at the roof around the unit before blaming the rooflight.

How a fitting day runs

Protection comes before tools. Floors, furniture and stairs get covered, and the ceiling below the opening is sheeted to catch dust. Up top, the fitters confirm the opening is square and the upstand or flashing suits what the maker specifies. Fixing follows, then weather-sealing into the membrane, felt or tiles. Only once the roof is tight do they turn to the internal reveal. Time on site for a replacement rooflight: one day, weather permitting.

Planning, building control and Crowborough

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

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 TN6, and we can price it.

Common questions in Crowborough

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