Rooflight replacement in Heywood

Guide prices in Heywood

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.

Fitting across Heywood and nearby

Covering Heywood means covering the people who live and work there, not a single postcode. We take on domestic and commercial jobs in OL10, OL11 and BL9, and are happy to quote further out in Middleton and Rochdale. If your address sits between towns, tell us and we will confirm whether it falls in our normal area or needs travel set out separately on the quote.

What we check on a supplied unit

There are two ways to do this. Supply and fit means we source a replacement rooflight 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.

On the day, we cover

• Kerb inspected for rot, height, level and fall once the old unit is off
• New unit bedded, fixed and sealed exactly as its maker shows
• Packers, an adaptor or a new insulated upstand where the old kerb falls short
• Energy rules for the new unit — We make sure the replacement meets the current energy limit, not just the old unit's performance.
• Leaks that are not the rooflight — We look at the roof around the unit before blaming the rooflight.

Fitting your replacement rooflight, step by step

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 replacement 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 Heywood?

In England, a new rooflight opening generally needs building regulations approval because the roof structure is altered and the glazing must meet energy rules: 2.2 W/m²K for a rooflight in an existing home, or 1.4 W/m²K (or WER Band B) for a roof window. Planning is often not needed on a house: permitted development covers rooflights that stand no more than 0.15 m proud of the roof slope and sit below the highest part of the roof. Flats, listed buildings and areas with an Article 4 direction are different, so we check your address first.

What to send for a quick quote

What we cannot see, we have to guess, and guesses make quotes wider. So the more you send, the tighter the price. Useful: shots from the roof or garden, shots from the room underneath, a rough width and length, the roof finish, any access problems, and the product page if you have already ordered. Add the property postcode around OL10 and we will come back with a quote or a survey date.

Common questions in Heywood

Questions before you commit? Send them over with your Heywood postcode and we will answer them plainly, with a quote alongside.