Water Tight Conservatory:

Once your new conservatory has been installed the last thing you want to worry about is persistent water problems. We use several means of finishing the roof of our conservatories to ensure this doesn’t happen.

On all our conservatory roofs we use lead flashing, the mortar lines of the house wall are ground out the lead is fitted and pointed over. On our conservatories with a pitched roof such as Edwardian or Victorian we step flash the lead and then fit into the mortal lines as above.

On conservatories with a box valley gutter design that is being fitted onto a fascia the finishing of the roof is done is a slightly different way. We still use lead flashing but to fit the lead the roof tiles are lifted and the lead is fitted under the roof felt so any water running down the roof will be diverted into the box valley gutter. We also use a product called eaves guard (from our roofline replacement system) this is also fitted under the felt to help with diverting the rainwater into box valley gutter.

If there is a soil pipe or waste pipes that are not being re-sited and fitted through the conservatory roof it is necessary to fit a lead sleeve around these pipes to ensure no water gets through.

Wherever we finish a conservatory roof with lead our installers will also seal behind and underneath the lead flashing with clear silicon to get the best seal possible.

All the conservatory roofs are water tested and wind tested to meet British standards. All external glazing covers are finished with a gasket which sits onto the roof glazing to ensure a weather tight seal.

All components of the conservatory are also sealed, where we connect adjoining window and door frames our installers will seal between the frames making them completely draft proof.

There is an internal drainage system within all PVCU windows and doors so that any water that manages to get behind the glazing gasket seals will drain internally through the pvcu chambered frame and out over the external conservatory sill.

The external conservatory sill is also sealed internally and externally to the brickwork below.