I love my conservatory

I love mine too having had one in our previous house we bought this one with space to build one again. A friend told me you get addicted to the light and you do . We made the mistake of not putting any heating in it and at the moment it is too cold to use . DH is reluctant to use an electric heater in it but given a really sunny day it does warm up . We live in it all summer.

We spend most of the time in ours it looks out to the garden and has central heating.My favourite room.

I have a large Conservatory / Orangery that I had built in 2001 It was / is fully compliant with planning and has 2 large radiators connected to the house central heating and also has a balanced flue gas heater installed. I had it modified a couple of years ago with new windows, doors and glass roof. It's made a huge difference to the temperature throughout the year. Also it's virtually silent now when it rains which it never was before. Yes I love it and use it all year round.

all of your descriptions with heating in them do contravene planning regulations.

GillT57, we had had to submit plans to our local council and I can assure you that we certainly haven't contravened planning permission regulations
When everything was completed to the Council's satisfaction, complete with two large central heating radiators. we received a building warrant.

The firm which builds them deal with any planning regulations.

Yep, decidedly partial to mine too. It's lovingly called the sitooterie.

all of your descriptions with heating in them do contravene planning regulations.

How can you possibly know what building regulations have been applied for and granted on individual applications GillT57? Even if heating has been installed some time after the conservatory has been erected, the addition of a heating system is within permitted development, providing the existing conservatory fulfilled all required local planning applications.

Callistemon I really dislike the heat and bright sunlight, so no conservatory for me thanks. My dog sleeps on a day bed in my bedroom, but when we had three dogs there was a lot of stuff they needed so a separate space is ideal. Just getting used to only having one now.

We gravitate to ours all the time, I think it is the light levels.

That's why I like the glass roof which is solar reflecting but lets in light and I like to watch watch the clouds scudding past.
We had to turn the heater off today as it got to 28C with the sun (we both nodded off!). It has underfloor heating.

When we had a house (10 years ago) we added a conservatory. It was only small but allowed 2 good sized rattan chairs with fat cushions, a small coffee table (for wine of course) and under floor heating. Absolute bliss! It was my most favourite _small space^.
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Now we have moved it’s the only thing I miss from those days.

Gill I’m a bit puzzled by your reference to planning regs.
We had a conservatory/sunroom added to our house this year, fully compliant with planning law, building regs & inspected on completion.
It has a radiator connected to our central heating system.
It does have a solid roof with a velux window so maybe that’s the difference?

Like others I love it, wish we’d had it done years ago & it’s now my favourite room too.

Although I would quite like one, all of your descriptions with heating in them do contravene planning regulations. The amount of heat just flying out of the windows and roof is horrific, they are not supposed to be connected to central heating. I would however quite like one, but for intended purpose of growing plants, having somewhere to sit when it is lovely and sunny but cold outside. I would not heat it.

This house had a large conservatory on it when we bought it but we had a proper roof fitted about four years ago. It has evened out the extremes of temperature very well, but it’s exceptionally cold here int’ frozen north at the moment so we are not rushing to sit and watch the birds and enjoy the space as we usually do throughout the year. It has underfloor heating which is next to useless.

We gravitate to ours all the time, I think it is the light levels.

It is heated, for the plants as well as us, but today even though it w as bitterly cold with an icy gusty wind, the sun was shining and it was an absolute delight to snooze in the sun and warmth.

We have blinds fitted, and this year once lockdown has ended we are having new ones fitted, they go up in April and come down in September.

The conservatory is used every day of the year.

Ours faces north and comes off one of the bedrooms

I am so envious of all of you with conservatories. I would love to have that feeling of almost sitting in the garden, in all weather and feeling a bit of sun on me.

Our house all faces the wrong way, so the lounge is north facing and only gets a bit of sun in the early morning. We had thought of adding a conservatory to it, as people say you shouldn't have a south facing conservatory. Just worried it would make the lounge even darker.

We have a conservatory that I love but unfortunately it is too cold at the moment as the radiator isn't big enough to cope! We're going to replace the roof this year and that will hopefully keep it warmer as I really miss sitting out in it

Mine is upstairs between two halves of our house so we sit among slate rooves. Love it.

A few people nowadays seem to be building a shed in the garden but making it into a studio to work in and also making a small sun room. Seems a good idea if your garden is big enough. Due to lockdown, I think people are looking at their garden and looking at ways to improve it and enjoy it since they may well be spending more time at home in the future. Maybe the money they would have spent on a holiday is getting used this way instead

I had one on my recent bungalow. I had a love/hate relationship with it . It was at its best in the spring and autumn, even the winter sometimes, on those days when the sun shone but it was too cool outside. In the summer, it could soon get untenable if the sun was out, and generally in the winter too. Then it would be horrendously cold even with the big radiator going full blast and the halogen heater as well. The worst was when we got gales. We were high above town near the coast and fully exposed to the southwesters. Then it could be terrifying in there, feeling the panes moving and fearing roof panels being ripped off. Which did happen once.
On the whole, given a sheltered site, I think they’re great, the light getting into your brain gives you a far greater sense of well-being than sitting next to a window.
My new house won’t be having one though, it will take too much space off my new smaller garden.

So do I. It’s so light in there with splendid views and under floor heating - costs a bomb to run mind so I keep the rest of the house on very low heat.

I would love a conservatory , my house is so dark. One bed cottage with tiny windows.

My previous house had a conservatory which I found was crumbling, having been built with soft wood! I had it re-built on the same base which was sound. I love it, had lots of plants in it and the cats liked sunning themselves in it - and in one case, on the roof! Sadly, my present house doesn't have one and, after 20 years, I still miss it.

sodapop

No, my dream house would not have a conservatory or log burner but it would have a good sized utility room for white goods, drying washing and keeping dog paraphernalia.

Why not both sodapop?

I do like my conservatory but couldn't do without the utility room, no dog now unfortunately ?, but even when we had ??, they slept in the kitchen.

Previous house had one but unfortunately not this house and we don’t need the space any longer. I used to love sitting in ours and especially enjoyed relaxing atmosphere and it was so easy just to nod off. Lots of people round me seem to be putting proper roofs on making them into garden rooms.