Step by Step Guide

Step 8.
 Flashings

Whatever the style of conservatory you will need to seal the roof to your house wall with a suitable flashing. You can use a sticky bitumen flashband for speed of installation, but a more lasting result is achieved with a lead flashing chased into the brickwork and dressed down onto the roof after glazing.

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The wall rafter on a pitched Shield roof incorporates a channel to take the lead rather than it lapping down onto the roof glazing as in some inferior systems.
For more information on how to cut and install lead flashing click here to download our guide.

Step 1. Choosing and planning

Step 2. Site preparation: starting building work

Step 3. Building the dwarf wall

Step 4. Starting the conservatory installation

Step 5. Putting the frames in position

Step 6. Ready for the roof

Step 7. Installing the roof skeleton

Step 8. Flashings

Step 9. Glazing the roof

Step 10. Finishing the roof cappings, finial and cresting

Step 11. Glazing the frames

Step 12. Finishing off inside