Anyone had a roof lantern put in?

[ProfessorCalculus]

We'd like one like this (top picture) above our dining area but we've got no idea how much it will cost. Googling has proved fruitless.
Anyone done it?

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How about trying some double glazing or conservatory firms?

I've never seen one before, sorry, not much help.

In my last house I had a quote from Amdega for a roof lantern very similar to the one pictured. The quote was about £15,000 including leadwork to the flat roof.

I know someone who has had something similar done by Frost Conservatories and they charged much much much less for theirs and it is absolutely beautiful. But I don't know how much precisely but I can ask next time I see her.

We had one put in as part of an extension, but I have no idea of the costs of puting one in an existing structure.

Is there a builder you could contact?

Or contact the company that actually make them for an idea?

Thanks for the responses. £15,000 is a bit scary!

yes, which is why it remained a quote.

If you could ask your friend Swedes I'd be grateful. I don't want to contact builders yet for quotes because we haven't got the money yet but we're saving up for it.

Yes I will do.

Why don't you get someone artistic to paint a trompe L'oeil lantern on your ceiling? It would give the same effect and wouldn't leak and need cleaning.

Nice idea Swedes but the main reason for getting it is to let more light in.

We've got one! We had it put in when we built our kitchen / breakfast room extension around 3 years ago. Seems to remember that the quote for a wooden, double glazed one was around £3,000 at the time. In the end I think we went for UPVC and I think it came in at around £2,000.

Your best bet is to speak to builders etc. re quotes. Because ours was being put in at the same time as the extension it may have been cheaper labour wise but £15,000 seems ery expensive.

I love it in our house though and everyone comments on it when we have people round....

Now that's more reasonable. £2-3,000 I can do. I guess fitting it will cost more on top.

Yes I would have thought so but the amount of work required will depend on the structure, etc. of your existing roof in that area. you might also want to think about setting moeny aside for redecoration.
We also had something similar put into the existing roof in another part of our house and the mess was incredible.

You might be lucky and get very tidy builders though

Mess [groan]
We've almost finished decorating the part of the house we want the roof lantern in. So we're going to have to do it all again? Sigh.

We have just had a flat skylight put in - it is absolutely amazing and we don't need the lights on much at all - bliss. Cost of skylight itself was about 2.5K, plus fitting a bit more. We would have liked a lantern but we were doing our extension within Permitted Development and a lantern would have increased the space we were using. If you would like more info, contact me.

Hey, can you still contact other MNers - has that gone with the new site stuff? Dunno.

You can but it costs a fiver.
Can you tell me which part of the country you're in? Was your room quite dark before? That's our main motivation. The room was extended to 20-something foot long and the end furthest from the patio doors is dark. I'm hoping the roof lantern will lighten things up a bit.

Oxford.

Room before was a galley kitchen and galley bathroom (is there such a thing?). Extended by about a metre and a half, made into a kitchen diner, so much longer - would be pretty dark without skylight. The light from the skylight also goes through a frosted glass internal window into our new bathroom, which otherwise would have been v dark. It is absolutely great. The only problem I have with it is that I think it does throw light upwards, and we live in a terrace - I really avoid putting the lights on because of this, esp in the mornings, as I worry about waking neighbours up with random lights. No problem - it's lovely feeling the room get lighter and lighter as I have breakfast.

Sounds fantastic Choosy.