To ask you about conservatory

[LolleePop]

I'd like a small conservatory on the back of my house exactly like the one in this house. But how come I've been told I have to have doors in between the house and the conservatory?
I want to knock the back of my house out (super easy job as the whole of my back wall of my house is upvc framed glass patio doors and windows) and add a conservatory EXACTLY like this, same style, same depth, same size.
My house is the same proportions.
So why is this house marketable with an open plan conservatory, yet I've been told by 3 different builders that I can't have an open plan conservatory and if I went ahead and got one I'd have to find someone who was willing to do it against building regulations and that I'd never be able to market my house for sale????
Why can't I have exactly what this house has?
Can't afford a traditional brick extension, hence looking at conservatory.
I only want one that's 6 foot deep!

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Nope,same as yours by the sounds of it.

I love my conservatory. It has one high wall that gives privacy from our neighbours. It has a door from the kitchen and the old french doors that used to lead from the living room to the garden. It has my dining table, a sofa and drinks cabinet. It's my favourite room as it overlooks my garden. I prefer to do my marking etc in here. I have a wall heater and heat reducing blinds for summer which really do help. I wouldn't be without it.

@Ivyy Yes it counted as an extension even though the building was already there, we needed building regs and also a party wall agreement as we were on the boundary - which did seem bizarre when there was already a structure there and we did the same size! Didn’t need planning permission though. It was worth doing, it’s just amazing having a usable space year round!

It will surely depend on your roof. If you have glazing for any other hard plastic surface, the noise is defending. I work in my conservatory between May and November and I have to move to my dining room of it rains. I can't hear what the person on the other end of a line is saying even with headset on. My friend has solid roof over hers and it's fine just like any other room in the house.

my friend had an extension around 4yrs ago and she had her conservatory doors removed and it became part of her kitchen so all open plan. She did have a proper roof installed on it though and it was a half brick / half glass conservatory to start with

Ours had a steeply sloping glass roof (4m+), rain noise was minimal and never obtrusive.

Building regs are really strict re an extension. You have to work out your overall u value and look at size of glazing, insulation in floor and walls etc. All glazing to be 1.4 or 1.2 or lower. The foundations hafe to have deep footings. The roof needs 3 ply ceiling. With insulation. You have to complete with cavity drip trays and also the disposal of run off water. The walls have to be packed with insulation. And the floor needs at least 100 mm PIR.

Or you get a conservatory and keep the external doors on and separate from the house.

Do you know anyone with a conservatory? Would they have another? One of my biggest regrets. Now saving up for 3rd version, but this time properly done with proper builders. Costing more as being done 'properly'. Previous incarnations had mega heat, mega cold in winter, deafening with only a light shower. Now leaks, so we are biting the bullet to have a proper extension. But we could have had a palace for the amount we have spent in the past. Without doors separating from sitting room life would have been intolerable for past 25 years.
Either have an extension, or don't bother with anything and save the stress.

That is what I would describe as a "lean too" ...not a conservatory.

We had a fab one put in 20 years ago.
Enormous insulation put in under the reclaimed flooring that we laid at great time and expense to match our older house.
We went with triple glazed glass for it too.
We put full heating via double radiators from our gas system and the room 13x16 is a very comfortable room in winter.
It can go many weeks unused in winter but after 20 years there is zero damp etc.
All down to the floor insulation apparently.

Our conservatory had a standard plastic roof. As others have said. Too cold, too hot and when it rained it was noisy, so ended up being a bit of a dumping ground, and occasional gym (well we had a crosstrainer in there. We had the old glass and plastic walls replaced with new similar, and an insulated tiled roof. We were going to remove the d glazed doors from the house, and put in a radiator connected to our central heating, but it would then become a part of the house, and would have needed extra consent, and may have increased valuation for council tax. So we put in a wall mounted leccy radiator, and kept the doors. It is now our favourite room, easy to heat up in the winter, it does get hot in the summer, but not unbearable, and we can control the heat by opening a window. We have a friend who has a massive conservatory with the walls out. Looks good, but his heating bill is horrific.

Our current house has a conservatory with no door OP. We bought it like that 20+ years ago. We loved it as it adjoined to the study and made a great playroom for our girls (now adults). However it did get very hot in summer and cold in winter. Polycarbonate roof so yes noisy when it rained but I rather liked that! We had heavy curtains put up which helped enormously with the noise and containing the heat/cold.

3 months ago we put a proper insulated roof on. Best thing we've ever done to the house! Wish we'd done it years ago! Was bloody expensive though.

You need to have a lockable door between a conservatory and the main house and then you can have it under building control. If you want open plan as in the photos of this house @LolleePop then you'd need to apply for planning permission. You could have a look online at the areas planning portal and see if you can find the application for this house and see just what they applied for.
As for a price, then I'd say anywhere between & £1000 and £100,000. There are too many variables for people online to tell you that.

It actually says " part conservatory " so not an official conservatory on the sense for the different building regulations. And I think it looks better than a traditional conservatory and heating would be different. Maybe continuous underfloor heating? But it would mean proper building regulations. If this is what you want then go for it but I understand why builders are not doing it in the way you want. As it won't be as cheap and more hoops to jump through.