Sun tunnel installation in Aberdeen

Guide prices in Aberdeen

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 warrant fees, where a job needs them, are shown as their own line.

Is your address covered?

Fitters travel to the job, so the address is what counts. In Aberdeen that means postcode districts AB11, AB25 and AB10, and the same teams can just as easily take on work in Peterhead, about 28 miles away, or Arbroath at roughly 44 miles. Survey and fitting dates are offered according to fitter availability, and travel is built into the quote rather than added later.

Your sun tunnels or ours

Which works out better, buying your own or letting us supply? It depends on what you value. Buying your own gives you control of the product and what you pay for it. Letting us supply puts the whole job, unit and fitting, under one written quote. On a customer-supplied unit we still measure it against the opening, look at the upstand, and inspect the condition it arrived in. Warranty on the product sits with whoever sold it, while the fitting carries our own guarantee.

On the day, we cover

• Ceiling opening cut neatly and the diffuser fitted
• Route through the loft checked for joists, cables and pipes
• Roof opening cut and the flashing fitted to tiles, slates or a flat-roof kit
• Condensation in cold lofts — We insulate the tube where it passes through a cold loft.
• Tube size — We match the tube size to the room and the roof.

What happens on the day

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 sun tunnel 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, building warrants and Aberdeen

In Scotland a new rooflight needs a building warrant before work starts. A like-for-like replacement including the frame is exempt from a warrant but must meet current standards, so the glazing has to reach 1.6 W/m²K or better. For planning, rooflights on houses outside conservation areas can often go ahead under permitted development, but it is worth confirming with the planning authority.

Details that speed up your quote

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 AB11, and we can price it.

Common questions in Aberdeen

Send a few photos and your AB11 postcode, and we will put together a written quote for the job.