[Help] Conservatory dismantling & removal

[AK74]

We have a large aluminium conservatory which needs to be dismantled and removed prior to a new brick extension being built.

Can NSC recommend a firm based on a positive prior experience? We're in Brighton, near to Varndean College.

And if anyone wants it free of charge, I'm happy to provide photos. It's double-glazed, with a pair of French doors on one side and bifold doors in the centre. The previous owners of our house had it installed at high cost a decade ago, but our needs are different to theirs, hence the need to remove. Only stipulation is to have it gone before September 4th.

External dimensions:

Length: 615cm
Depth: 357cm
Height (front): 242cm
Height (rear): 330cm

Alas, this doesn't qualify for the #fiveminutejob category.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

5 minute job.

 

[worthingweird]

Order skip, lower skip on to conservatory, move skip, fill skip...

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Just take your AK74 to it and bob's your uncle

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Might be worth sticking on Freecycle - bound to get some interest there

 

[AK74]

Just take your AK74 to it and bob's your uncle

That's Plan B.

 

[Live by the sea]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

 

[Springal]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

 

[AK74]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

Thank-you for that, Kirstie Allsopp.

 

[Live by the sea]

Thank-you for that, Kirstie Allsopp.

You can call me Phil ..

 

[Official Old Man]

I had a couple of experienced Polish guys take mine down. Sadly they went home during covid.
BUT you say French doors. I had the same and they fitted the hole left in the wall perfectly. Everything else, despite being high quality glazing, was thrown in a skip as I couldn't give it away.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

How have you devalued a house with a conservatory? I have a conservatory AND an extension....neither were built in the 80's

 

[golddene]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

Wish you’d told me! Just spent 8 months completely rebuilding our conservatory and utility room from the concrete floor up, stopped counting the cost at 12k !! I thought it looked half decent, only to learn now that my gaff is worth less than it was before I started !! You really ought to share these snippets of wisdom more widely to prevent others wasting their time and hard earn’t cash on white elephants, have to demolish it now to recoup any losses I must have made. I’ll never see that cash I blew building the thing again that’s for sure ?

 

[timbha]

Wish you’d told me! Just spent 8 months completely rebuilding our conservatory and utility room from the concrete floor up, stopped counting the cost at 12k !! I thought it looked half decent, only to learn now that my gaff is worth less than it was before I started !! You really ought to share these snippets of wisdom more widely to prevent others wasting their time and hard earn’t cash on white elephants, have to demolish it now to recoup any losses I must have made. I’ll never see that cash I blew building the thing again that’s for sure ?

I wouldn’t worry. I imagine the poster has half read an article in the Mirror.

Conservatory companies are still in business I believe

 

[Nobby]

Beggar

I thought this was another thread about the Tories.

 

[SteveU]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

Total nonsense.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

We have a large aluminium conservatory which needs to be dismantled and removed prior to a new brick extension being built.

Can NSC recommend a firm based on a positive prior experience? We're in Brighton, near to Varndean College.

And if anyone wants it free of charge, I'm happy to provide photos. It's double-glazed, with a pair of French doors on one side and bifold doors in the centre. The previous owners of our house had it installed at high cost a decade ago, but our needs are different to theirs, hence the need to remove. Only stipulation is to have it gone before September 4th.

External dimensions:

Length: 615cm
Depth: 357cm
Height (front): 242cm
Height (rear): 330cm

Alas, this doesn't qualify for the #fiveminutejob category.

Are the builders you have contracted to build the extension not interested in demolishing the conservatory?
I have, in the past, taken down several conservatories prior to building extensions, but ,alas, I am now too old to take this on.

 

[Justice]

Total nonsense.

Conservatories now so 'naff' they're knocking £15,000 off house prices

Estate agents say conservatories built during the boom of the 2000s are now seen as dated and energy-inefficient by the majority of buyers.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

 

[dazzer6666]

Houses with conservatories are usually worth less than ones without ! Very 1980’s which isn’t desirable nowadays . Obviously a proper extension is the best way to add significant value .

Does A Conservatory Add Value To A House? | Good Move™

Are you wondering how much value a conservatory adds to a home? If this sounds like you, explore all there is to know about conservatory extensions.

goodmove.co.uk

 

[BN9 BHA]

Wish you’d told me! Just spent 8 months completely rebuilding our conservatory and utility room from the concrete floor up, stopped counting the cost at 12k !! I thought it looked half decent, only to learn now that my gaff is worth less than it was before I started !! You really ought to share these snippets of wisdom more widely to prevent others wasting their time and hard earn’t cash on white elephants, have to demolish it now to recoup any losses I must have made. I’ll never see that cash I blew building the thing again that’s for sure ?

Don’t read post #18