Walk-on 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.

Fitting across Durham and nearby

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.

Buying your own, or letting us supply

There are two ways to do this. Supply and fit means we source a walk-on 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 we do on the day

• Drainage around the unit checked so water does not lie on the glass
• Unit bedded and fixed so it sits level with the finished surface
• Perimeter joints sealed and the waterproofing lapped as the maker shows
• Structural calculations — We need structural calculations for the glass and its support before a walk-on job goes ahead.
• Weight on delivery day — We plan the delivery and lift before booking any lifting gear or extra hands.

How a fitting day runs

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 walk-on 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.

Do you need permission in 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.

Details that speed up your quote

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 DH1. That is enough for a first price.

Common questions in Durham

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