Rooflight replacement in Royton

Guide prices in Royton

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 Royton and nearby

Jobs across OL2, OL1 and OL9 are part of our normal cover for Royton. 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 Chadderton and Oldham 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

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.

What the job includes

• Old rooflight or dome unscrewed, lifted out and taken away for disposal
• 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
• Leaks that are not the rooflight — We look at the roof around the unit before blaming the rooflight.
• Is the kerb worth keeping? — We decide whether the existing kerb can stay only after checking it for rot, height and squareness.

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.

Planning and building rules in England

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.

Help us quote accurately

Keep it simple. Two or three photos, outside and inside. Approximate sizes. What the roof is made of. Anything awkward about getting up there, such as a conservatory below, a narrow side path or no parking. If you bought the rooflight online, the link or model name. Then your postcode in or around OL2. That is enough for a first price.

Common questions in Royton

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