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A Guide to living with a Glass Room

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Samson Awnings specialise in the design, supply and installation of custom built, glass outdoor aluminium rooms and verandas to your exact requirement, size, colour and shape. From budget to luxury specifications, we have products and solutions available.
A glass garden room should ideally offer sheltered protection all year round, yet remain fully interactive with the outdoors thanks to its innovative clear glass elements, doors and blinds.

This can be assisted with the fantastically clear glass elements, which offer a spectacular panoramic view of your garden providing your room with a fresh, vibrant and natural feel. A garden glass room is the perfect way to fully enjoy a natural unobstructed view of your garden whilst enjoying the comfort of your adjacent home.

To ensure your view is always unobstructed when the front glazed panels are closed, we fit our garden glass rooms with frameless glass sliding or fixed panel elements as standard. With no profiles needed to support them, the glass panels stand with edge to edge glass, allowing you to enjoy an uninterrupted panoramic view of your surroundings. When the weather warms up, simply slide the glass panels to one side and allow the natural fresh air inside.
We can offer framed glass doors if preferred for a different aesthetic to the whole room.

The choice of fixed, sliding or bi-folding glass sides gives total flexibility to how you build your glass room with manual or electric blinds for the roof and sides also available.

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PRICE EXAMPLES

Deponti Glass Room

Price From £11,500

What’s included:

• * 3 Standard Colours
• * 8.8mm Laminated Glass
• * Sliding Glass Doors on All Sides
• * Glass/Polycarbonate Roof Options Available

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Morvelle Glass Room

Price From £17,500

What’s included:

• * 2 Standard Colours
• * 8.8mm Laminated Glass
• * Sliding Glass Doors on All Sides
• * Louvred Roof Options Available

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Weinor Glass Room

Price From £21,000

What’s included:

• * 62 Standard Colours
• * 10.8mm Laminated Glass
• * Sliding Glass Doors on All Sides
• * Underglass Shading Options Available

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BESPOKE MANUFACTURED – INVEST IN HIGH QUALITY

Whether installed on a house, old or new, a garden glassroom from Samson Awnings will become both an architectural highlight and a frequently used extension of your home. Unlike your average conservatory, the construction work required as part of the installation is minimal, meaning a faster installation time. No foundation work is usually required and no alterations to your home are usually required either. Most of the time, you won’t even need to apply for planning permission! Many customers prefer an outdoor room on a raised concrete or decked area and this does help a lot with unlevel patios as well as coping with excessive rainwater in a storm.

Most of our structures are bespoke in almost every way, from the roof angle, the height, the width and projection, and the arrangement of the front and side infill products. The perfect room will take into consideration the direction it faces to the sun, the prevailing wind directions, integration to existing architectural features and colours and the size required for the intended use.

All components are produced industrially as series products – this ensures each garden room we produce is manufactured to the highest quality. With appropriate specification you can use your glass room all year round in comfort. Most of our structures are manufactured in Germany to the very highest standards and each room is purpose built to your requirements.
We do also offer some standard size models with advantages with cost and availability, but these are generally a more preset specification.

The bespoke aluminium outdoor rooms will use 10.8mm glass for the roof and 10mm glass for the sliding glass walls or doors. You would find the aluminium profiles to be far more robust and heavier than basic DIY systems, with higher snow loading certification and also wind loading too.
Constructed to suit each individual customer, our garden glass rooms are made to suit both the shape and style of your house. Even if there are protruding walls, corners or balconies, our rooms are able to be adapted. We will be happy to help and advice you in detail and help you determine which roof shape is best and provide 3D drawings too.

You will always receive a drawing from us to approve and sign off before any manufacturing begins with full details on the specification and dimensions.

How Do I Get A Price And Specification?

1. Initial Contact
Call us directly on01933 448 844, submit an online enquiry or visit our showroom to speak to a member of our team.

2. Price Proposal
We will then send you a price proposal to review, and make changes if required. We can also do some initial visuals.

3. Site Survey
Once you are 100% happy, we will arrange a site survey to check dimensions and to ensure the specifications are suitable.

4. Installation
We will complete your installation and handover a professionally installed product which will have guarantees in place for added peace of mind.

 

WALL MOUNTED OR FREE STANDING

An outdoor glass room can be either an extension of one or more of your existing house rooms for a seamless transition onto your patio or garden, or you can also have a completely free standing system built, away from your home.

Often we also find customers with unsuitable building walls or other restrictions need a structure which doesn’t have any part attached to their home.

Our free standing rooms will have a flat top section with sloping glass or other materials built inside this top profile section.

MODERN OR TRADITIONAL STYLES

Just as with the aluminium verandas, the glass outdoor rooms will have different design styles, often subtle, but depending on the final size, very pronounced in many cases if you study the actual roof and profile shapes and sizes.
A lot of the choice for the style can be driven by whether you have a very modern or older traditional style home.

You also now can choose totally flat roof aluminium structures incorporating angled glass within the roof system. A flat roof can suit many properties larger and small and one benefit is not having any angled sides to deal with when it comes to integrating the sliding glass doors.

COLOURS & FINISHES

Our bespoke glass rooms are available in an extensive selection of premium powder-coated colors, providing you with an array of choices that cater to your aesthetic preferences.

For those seeking a unique and refined appearance, we also offer a selection of textured paint finishes, such as the sophisticated Iron Glimmer. These finishes not only enhance the visual appeal with a more matte finish but are also more resistant to scratching, ensuring your garden room retains its elegance over time.

Our luxury glass rooms come with the flexibility of choosing from over 130 stunning aluminium frame colors. While anthracite grey continues to be a popular choice in the UK and Northern Europe due to its versatility and ability to complement almost any color scheme, our palette spans the full spectrum, from pristine white to deep black.

Whether you desire a classic look or something more contemporary, we have the perfect color to make your glass room truly one-of-a-kind.

SUNLIGHT AND HEATING CONTROL

Many of the glass verandas and glassrooms are available with internally or externally fitted retractable electric fabric blinds, for the control of light and heat from the sun.
We strongly recommend the addition of a fabric roof blind for any glass room facing directly South or when there is perhaps only one or 2 exposed sides for ventilation.

The beauty of a fabric sunlight control is you can still expect good levels of natural light to flood through the fabric if you choose correctly, taking the heat and glare out of the midday sun, but not plunging you into darkness.

These roof blinds are generally available up to 6m wide and above this size you would have a coupled unit and more if required for very wide systems.

The external vertical fabric blinds we can offer for one or more of the sides also offer protection from the sun, wind and provide privacy too. Electrically operated and using what is known generically as a ‘zip’ guide system, these blinds can deal with a lot of wind as the fabric is zipped into the side channels for maximum horizontal tension when opened.
There are so many fabric colours to choose from and special fabrics with perforated tiny holes allowing some vision and light but still preventing the wind and rain.

Customise your glass outdoor room when first installing or add extra protection at a later date after living with the room for a few months…

Our newest flat roof veranda system is very popular as it fits the design of so many more modern homes and also doesn’t require the height at the wall mounting point that sloping lean to systems required.

INTO THE EVENINGS

A glass outdoor room can offer you several more months of an average year being in your garden or patio. Apart from the depths of winter you will have protection from rain at any time, but also the cooling effects of wind in the spring and autumn months.

With a range of high quality infra red heating options and LED lighting systems you can enhance the enjoyment of your garden room long into the evening.

Integrated LED lights provide adjustable lighting, providing a beautiful ambience inside your glassroom, or turned right up for an almost daylight level of lighting.

The latest LED lighting can be added to some or all of the internal roof bars or uprights and will provide enough light for any occasion. Colour changing and dimmable at the touch of a button on a remote control handset.

The LED lighting is very low in energy consumption and the LED bulbs used will last for years.

With a range of high quality heating and LED lighting systems, it is now possible to enjoy your garden glass room long into the night. Some of these systems can be viewed here.
When things get cooler outdoors, the various patio heating system radiate an adjustable warmth to offer comfort for some or all inside.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How much does a glass outdoor room cost in the UK?

A glass garden room, best defined as an aluminium and glass roof structure which is enclosed on all sides from the elements, is going to start at around £15,000 installed. The sizes can be anything from a smaller 3m wide by 2m projection up to 15m wide and 6m projection from the building wall. They can even be wider than this if required.

There are so many factors influencing the final installed price and als how you want to customise the shape, additional side elements, lighting, flooring and so on.

Since 2007 we have installed many hundreds of glass outdoor rooms and the prices have varied between £15,000 and around £68,000 for a very large and bespoke design.

There are quite large variations in the prices you see for similar sizes but if you check out details further you will see the differences in quality and specification quite easily..

Does a ‘Glass Room’ need planning permission?

Technically the answer is no but it does depend on size, local planning requirements, conservation area restrictions, location, and other factors including how it may affect your neighbours, usually the most important!
Most glass structures of any size will probably require planning permission or building regulation approval but as the glass room starts life as a simple glass roof structure it certainly sits in a grey area for planning applications.

 

OTHER TYPES OF OUTDOOR ROOM

Retractable Roof Pergola and Outdoor Room

For a retractable pergola roof system and still with full panoramic vision look at our Pergotex or Isola systems. Retractable and fully waterproof fabric/vinyl roof offering complete UV protection, but options for fabrics with light passing through. Combine this system with the same sliding glass walls and other weather protection products and you can have a ‘cabriolet’ roof.Simple push of a remote handset button and the electric roof can retract to open up the sky to you. Glass doors will still prevent the wind of course and on the hottest days open up the whole system for enjoy.

Retractable Roof Pergola and Outdoor Room

Aluminium structure, aluminium tilting roof blades and optional side infills – glass walling, louvre walling, fabric blinds and solid wall options.

Create your perfect outdoor room with an electric rotating aluminium louvre bladed roof.
Remote control operation of the louvre blades in your aluminium pergola roof to control air flow and sun light, with rain protection when closed.

Perfect as wall mounted or stand alone systems with luxury lighting and heating options along with multiple methods to optimise each side to suit your garden and prevailing winds, etc..

OUTDOOR ROOMS FOR OUTDOOR LIVING

Any of the outdoor structures, at any price point, are not to ever be compared to a conservatory. Most conservatories and orangeries in the UK are bought and built for a very different reason and involve building regulations, foundations, insulation and so on…
There has been much publicity recently about the perils of cheap ‘plastic’ conservatories and how they can actually devalue your home as their performance is not usually good when they are not built to a high standard. Many people would often be better off having an actual extension to their home for the intended use of a standard conservatory, which is usually too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
An outdoor glass room or similar enclosed outdoor room is not an insulated room and cannot ever be 100% waterproof, but it will offer far greater flexibility throughout an average year in the British climate to control light, heat and the cooling effect of the wind. On average it is generally thought a properly specified outdoor room can give you an extra 4 months of the year ‘outside but inside’, enjoying natural light, fresh air and beautiful views of your garden and beyond. They will give you more than most other options and provide a beautiful space for so many activities – working, reading, listening to music, drinking, eating, entertaining friends and family and so on..
The average outdoor room also can be installed in just a few days with minimal building work or disturbance or digging. They are also mostly modular so you can add extra elements at a later date once you have lived and understood the area better over time..

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PLANNING AND BUILDING REGULATIONS

An outdoor room in most cases is considered a temporary structure in building terms. It does not require the foundations of an extension and isn’t insulated either. Basic planning laws will cover you in most cases when it comes to adding an outdoor room structure to the side or rear of your home. Permitted development rights will cover most homes. This covers the size, position and general shape for any ‘extensions’ at your home.

If your home is listed or in a conservation area, or the room is going to be particularly large or not built on the ground floor, you may want to check with your local authority on their views.
We have seen mixed responses over the years depending on the individual situation and authority response.

We can provide 3D drawings and technical details for anyone requiring a more detailed discussion with their local authority to assist you with your case if required.

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LED Lighting and heating or all year use.

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