We have an old conservatory on the back of our house that needs replacing. For most of the 7 years we have lived here we have used it as a laundry drying room in summer and an extra fridge at Christmas. It is a simple one with a dwarf wall, basic wooden double glazed windows, no ceiling vents and no heating.
Our ideal solution is to replace it with an extension which we can use as a dining room. However it would go up to the boundary of our land which has a steep drop down to the lane and a very high retaining wall. The current conservatory is built on top of this wall on one side. It would be potentially very difficult and very expensive to build a permanent structure on/against this wall.
The easiest option is to replace the existing conservatory with an all singing, all dancing one - heat reflecting glass, underfloor heating etc. The companies we have spoken to say that new technology makes it cooler in summer and warmer in winter, but just how cool is cool and how warm is warm. As a statement it doesn't mean much.
The question I have is can a conservatory ever be an all year round room, even if we throw lots of money at it? It is south facing, just to make it even more tricky.
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Is it ever possible to use a conservatory as a room all year round?
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firesidechat · 23/05/2015 09:07
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