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Where We currently match conservatory work in Shrewsbury, Telford, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Solihull.

Conservatories

Fix the roof, keep the conservatory

A conservatory that is too hot in summer and too cold in winter is almost always a roof problem, not a structure problem. Replacing the roof with an insulated tiled one typically costs £7,875 to £15,188, a modern glass one £9,450 to £18,225, and reglazing tired side panels around £120 to £250 each. The frames, base and doors normally stay exactly where they are.

Almost every complaint about a conservatory is a complaint about its roof. The frames, the base and the doors are usually sound, and replacing the structure to solve a roof problem is the most expensive answer available.

A modern conservatory with slim anthracite aluminium frames and a fully glazed roof, seen from the garden.

Roof replacement and reglazing, and what each costs

Three jobs on a conservatory that already exists. Which one you need depends on whether the complaint is winter, summer, or the glass itself.

Choosing

What we match, and what we do not

We are a windows and doors introducer, so the honest boundary matters here more than on any other page. We match enquiries for work on a conservatory that already exists:

  • Replacing the roof, with tiles or with modern glass.
  • Reglazing failed or tired side panels in the existing frames.
  • Replacing the doors into the garden, which is ordinary door work. See bi-fold, patio and french doors.

We do not match building a new conservatory, an orangery, or a conversion into a full extension. Those are groundwork, structure and consents as much as glazing, and sending that enquiry to a window installer would waste your time and theirs.

The same conservatory

It is nearly always the roof

A conservatory gains and loses most of its heat through the roof, which is why insulating or upgrading that one surface changes the room far more than anything done to the walls.

A tired conservatory with a yellowed polycarbonate roof, greyed uPVC frames and algae staining along the base.

Before

Yellowed polycarbonate, greyed frames, unusable from May to September.

A modern conservatory with slim anthracite aluminium frames and a fully glazed roof, seen from the garden.

After

A modern glazed roof with a solar-control coating. Same footprint, same base.

The structure underneath a tired conservatory is usually sound. What has aged is the roof covering and the glazing. Both photographs illustrate typical conditions. They are not work carried out by TrustedGlazing, which is an introducer and does not install anything.

Choosing

Which problem do you actually have?

The two roof options are not a budget choice and a premium choice. They solve different complaints, and the more expensive one is not always the right answer.

  • "We cannot use it in winter."

    An insulated tiled roof. It is the only option that makes the space behave like a room. Accept that it will be darker, and design in roof windows if light matters.

  • "It is fine until July, then it is an oven."

    A glass roof with a solar-control coating. It attacks the heat without taking the daylight, and it is far quieter in rain than polycarbonate.

  • "The roof is fine, but the panels have gone cloudy."

    Reglazing. The failed units come out of the frames you already have, at a few hundred pounds a panel rather than the cost of a structure.

  • "The whole thing is coming apart."

    Then it may genuinely be a rebuild, and that is not work we match. A settled base or a frame that has moved is a structural finding, and it is worth hearing from a builder before anyone quotes you for glass.