Sliding rooflight installation in Durham

What the job costs in Durham

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.

Where our fitters travel

Jobs across DH1, DH7 and DH6 are part of our normal cover for Durham. 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 Spennymoor and Chester-le-Street are covered on the same terms, so a house on the edge of town is no harder to book than one in the centre.

What we check on a supplied unit

If you have bought a sliding rooflight yourself, we check four things before fitting. First, the delivery: open it, look for chips, cracks and bent frames, and report any damage to the seller straight away. Second, the size, measured against the builder's opening rather than the external frame. Third, the upstand height above the finished roof. Fourth, the maker's instructions, which set the fixings and sealing. Product warranty claims go to the seller and maker; our guarantee is for how it was fitted.

What we do on the day

• Lifting plan for the unit, often with gear booked for the day
• Clear run confirmed for the glass to slide over when open
• Cable routed to the motor, ready for the electrician's final connection, quoted as a separate line
• Guarding on the terrace — We look at how the roof terrace will be guarded before the rooflight is fitted.
• Weight and lifting — We plan the lift for a sliding rooflight before it is ordered.

A typical installation day

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 sliding rooflight 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 to two days.

Planning, building control and Durham

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 DH1, and we can price it.

Common questions in Durham

Got a unit waiting to go in, or need one sourced? Either way, start with your Durham address and a couple of photos.