About Avon Skylights

Avon Skylights Bristol installs new rooflights and roof windows, and replaces old ones, in owner-occupied homes. That covers pitched roof windows in loft conversions, flat rooflights and lanterns on kitchen extensions, conservation units for Clifton, Kingsdown and Bath, walk-on glass, sun tunnels, and the electric and solar units that open from a switch or a remote.

The thread running through all of it is simple. Daylight is the part everyone asks for, so it is the part we never have to sell. The question that gets missed is whether the unit should open, how it should open, and what happens to the room when it does. A loft bedroom with a fixed rooflight is bright and stuffy. The same loft with a roof window you can tilt from the bed, and a vent bar you can leave cracked overnight, is a room people actually sleep in during August.

So we spend a little longer than you might expect on the opening half of each job. Where the warm air in your house collects, which unit sits highest, whether a rain sensor makes sense, and whether a fixed pane would serve a particular spot better. Our page on fresh air through the roof sets out the thinking in full.

We are based in Bristol and travel to you; there is no showroom to visit. Our area runs 30 road miles out from the inner ring road, which takes in Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon and Portishead, Thornbury and Yate, Chippenham and Frome, Wells and the Mendip villages, and plenty in between. The areas we cover page lists every town by name.

That stretch of country has a particular mix of roofs, and they shape the work. Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Bishopston, Southville and Totterdown, many with a loft already converted and a rear extension added later. Georgian houses in Clifton and the centre of Bath, where the council will have a view on anything that changes a roof slope. Interwar semis in Henleaze and Keynsham with a dark landing and a box room in the eaves. Newer estates in Bradley Stoke and Emersons Green where a flat-roofed extension turns into a greenhouse by June. Pennant sandstone and Bath stone walls, slate and clay tiles, lead and felt and single-ply. Each asks for a slightly different flashing, a different kerb and a different conversation about planning.

It starts with a free survey at your home. We look at the roof from outside and the room from inside, check the rafters or joists where the unit will go, and talk through what you want the room to do. You then get a written, itemised quote. It lists each unit, the fitting, the flashing kit, the internal finish, scaffold or access, and any Building Control fee, so you can see what each part of the price is for. It also shows, for every position, whether the unit could open and by which method, alongside our view on where a fixed one is wiser. There is no obligation to go ahead.

On site, the roof is closed up and weathertight before we leave each evening, even when the work runs to a second day. Floors and stairs are covered on the way through. Old units and offcuts leave with us.

Fitting a new rooflight, or replacing a whole one, is building work that has to meet current Building Regulations, and where it is notifiable we deal with Building Control for you. If a planning question comes up, such as a listed building or a conservation area, we explain where you stand and what the council is likely to want before any work is booked. Our guide to rooflight Building Regulations covers the detail.

Every installation carries our 10-year workmanship guarantee. It covers the way we fitted the unit: the fixing, the flashing and the weathertightness of our work around it. The maker's own product warranty on the glass, frame and any motor is separate, and we hand it over with the paperwork at the end.

We would rather tell you something plainly at the survey than have you find it out later. If a cheaper sealed glass unit will put a misted rooflight right, we say so. If a lantern on a south-facing extension will need an opening section or solar control glass to stay comfortable, we say that too. Our costs page sets out what pushes a price up or down, so the figures on your quote make sense before you read them.

Getting in touch

The quickest way to start is the quote form, or a WhatsApp message with a photo of the roof and the room. We will reply to arrange a survey at a time that suits you. You can also browse the full list of rooflight and roof window services first.