Conservatory with a solid roof

[topman870]

Hi,

I'm planning on building a lean to conservatory, I want to make side walls to be solid as there is no way i can do any maintenance if i were to use glass. As for the roof it would be a solid cold deck roof with 2 skylights. The front would have dwarf walls up to 600mm and the rest glass.

I don't plan open up the existing house so it would be separated. Would i need building control or not and is this approved as a conservatory?

Thanks

 

[Deluks]

Sounds like more of a lean to than a conservatory. No regs as such. Will you be heating the space?

The advice in this case is always the same. Spend the little bit extra and make a proper job of it, you already have to build a foundation, a dpc, brickwork, 'solid sides', a warm roof and a few windows, that's almost as much work as a full extension.

Even if you don't open it up to the house, it leaves you scope to be able to do so in the future.

 

[Notch7]

Hi,

I'm planning on building a lean to conservatory, I want to make side walls to be solid as there is no way i can do any maintenance if i were to use glass. As for the roof it would be a solid cold deck roof with 2 skylights. The front would have dwarf walls up to 600mm and the rest glass.

I don't plan open up the existing house so it would be separated. Would i need building control or not and is this approved as a conservatory?

Thanks

you can send your local authority a drawing of what you propose and say "I just wanted to get confirmation this proposed structural will be exempt: it will substantially glazed, thermally separate from the house with separate heating controls

they can then tell you if they consider it exempt or not

the question might be the skylight size, but theres no criteria now for what constitutes a conservatory

as Deluks says, do it properly with regs and it will become a true extension and add value to the house