Vernon and his family had an old conservatory which was nearly 20 years old and had many issues – the polycarbonate roof was too noisy when it rained, it leaked, and the polycarbonate in the roof was discoloured. The family also found that the doors that separated the conservatory from their home made it feel like an ‘add on’, rather than being a part of their home, and so they decided to look for a replacement.
To begin, Vernon looked at costs for a new replacement roof, but it was important to him and his family that the new space was well insulated throughout, and as the structure of the old conservatory had so many problems, he worried that simply replacing the roof would not be enough to keep it warm during the colder months of the year. Then Vernon came across hup! on Facebook and right away thought this is just what we’re looking for - well insulated roof and walls as well as being fast to build.
“We’re big fans of Grand Designs and when we started looking at replacing the old conservatory we wondered why you couldn’t use a system with panels and then we found hup!. With bricks and mortar it would have taken a lot longer to do, plus we did our project in October and so we didn’t want the house exposed to the weather for long and hup! was the perfect solution.
“We now have this fantastic living space that’s great for when our family comes round. Every opportunity we’re out here now with the family, with the doors open onto the garden, it’s totally changed our home!”
Amanda and her family live in a new build house and they longed for a conservatory to extend the kitchen into a more sociable space for family time, as well as for entertaining. She chose to add a hup! conservatory onto her home featuring a glass roof, dwarf walls and French doors to link to the garden.
Externally the conservatory walls are finished in brick mesh which is a fantastic match for the brick of the property, and the windows, doors and roof are anthracite grey – creating a conservatory that looks like a real part of the home with modern good looks. On the inside, an insulated pelmet runs around the perimeter of the roof, giving a solid, extension-like feel to the space, as well as further adding to the insulation of the new living space. The glass roof was chosen to flood the conservatory and adjoining kitchen with natural light and features high performance glass. This, coupled with the highly insulated hup! walls has ensured that the interior of the conservatory remains a comfortable temperature, no matter how hot or cold it is outdoors. As the conservatory is East facing, Amanda chose glass for the roof that also has a tinted finish to reduce glare from the sun.
Commenting about her hup! conservatory, Amanda said: “We didn’t want it to be somewhere we couldn’t sit in the summer or where it’s too cold – the high performance glass just takes the edge off the glaring sun and makes all the difference. If we have friends over now they can sit here with a drink or just on a day-to-day basis while the food is cooking I can sit here and take five and it just makes it a much more relaxing place. The conservatory went up in a DAY – it was amazing. It’s been something we’ve really wanted for a while and now we have it – we love it!”
Homeowners Dale & Tracy had an old conservatory which over the years had become a dumping ground as it was difficult to regulate the temperature.
They decided to transform the conservatory and extend it into a large extension that would have multiple uses. They wanted a space to relax and chat, without a tv. Dale works as a photographer and so they also wanted a space that was filled with light where he both do photoshoots and also edit his imagery. Finally, the couple had a downstairs bathroom on their wishlist. They wanted a lean-to style extension with a steeply pitched roof but had been told that the roof pitch they wanted was not possible with a traditional build.
Commenting about their new hup!, Dale said: “We are so glad that we chose hup! for our project. Despite the fact that our new extension is so much bigger than the old conservatory, it still only took a matter of days to build. We are already loving our new space for working and relaxing – things we could never have done in our old conservatory. It is also great that we now have the downstairs bathroom that we so wanted and thanks to using the hup! system, this was built using the ‘free space’ gained’. We are absolutely delighted that the vision we had in our minds has been perfectly brought to life with hup! – in fact it’s even better than we could have imagined!”
