Door canopy

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Where do you buy these?
Is this something you can install yourself? I’ve been really surprised at how expensive canopies are now I’ve started looking!

You can buy premade ones, especially glass and metal. You can buy just the wooden brackets to make your own roof too. Beware that on the front of your house if you go over 3m high you need planning permission.

Wow I didn’t even think about planning permission. Thanks for mentioning that

I was asking a roofer for a quote to put a storm porch on my house and they said they wouldn't start unless there was planning in place! Quite nice to hear someone playing by the rules.

I wanted a steep pitch on a tiled roof so you may be under 3m (from ground level outside). The porch section of the planning portal explains more.
Cost wise: I think the planning stuff was £30 for site plan then £230 for the planning application fee. I did the diagrams myself (which took quite a while but was enjoyable!).

do you mean this sort of thing?

they are available from joinery companies fro a few £upward, or a carpenter cold make one. You will need a roofer, or more specifically a leadworker, to do the flashing into the wall. Roofers may not do leadwork (well). Don't forget your gutters and downpipes. Tiles or slates should match your house. There is no real "builder" work.

It needs to be big enough to hold the rain off two people with shopping bags rummaging in their coat pockets.

Cantilvered designs are available but can pull off the wall, (or pull the bricks out) if heavily laden with snow or jolly drunks.

I don't know about planning permission.

@PigletJohn

do you mean this sort of thing?

they are available from joinery companies fro a few £upward, or a carpenter cold make one. You will need a roofer, or more specifically a leadworker, to do the flashing into the wall. Roofers may not do leadwork (well). Don't forget your gutters and downpipes. Tiles or slates should match your house. There is no real "builder" work.

It needs to be big enough to hold the rain off two people with shopping bags rummaging in their coat pockets.

Cantilvered designs are available but can pull off the wall, (or pull the bricks out) if heavily laden with snow or jolly drunks.

I don't know about planning permission.

Yes that’s the sort of thing I want. Just when I search online I keep only finding National large companies when ideally I’d deal with a local company. Maybe I am searching the wrong teem

you will find small joinery companies advertising on ebay. Search "door canopy wood." There happens to be a small works near me, and (too many) qualified joiners, because a local college trains more than there are jobs for.

They won't have big premises, but there may be someone near you.

Some of them are upmarket and specialise in repro work like oak doors and windows for people restoring grand homes that have had the original features ripped out.

If you can find a good local carpenter (a wrinkly old one is fine) he can assemble and fit one, or make it, but a readimade kit may be better value. It's a pretty simple job for some skilled.

(Technically, joiners make them, and carpenters fit them, but there is a lot of overlap).