Victorian Conservatories

The Victorian conservatory is the most popular style of conservatory and it suits all styles of house and home whether it be a period property or a new build. When people think of a conservatory it is the Victorian style that comes to most people’s minds.

The Victorian conservatory is the most popular style of conservatory. That's because the Victorian conservatory suits all house styles – be they period property or a new build. The Victorian conservatory springs most readily to mind when people think of conservatory styles.

The Victorian conservatory style includes a bay front, a steeply pitched roof and ornate ridge details. These days, of course, your Victorian conservatory, made out of modern materials such as uPVC and aluminium, is built to last.

Victorian conservatory styles comprise the three-facet Victorian, featuring a bay front with three main windows at wide angles, and the five-facet Victorian. This conservatory style also has a bay front but with five main windows for space as well as aesthetics.

High-Performance Victorian Conservatories

At Ultraframe, our Classic Roof system gives your Victorian conservatory a distinguished and classical appearance. Your Victorian conservatory can also be configured in any design. It was the Victorian era in which the nation's love of the conservatory blossomed.

This was because of the Victorians' love of foliage and exotic plants, which required a method of keeping plants alive during the cold winter months. In the 19th century, Victorian conservatory styles were created with ever-more-elaborate details to complement the period homes of the time. Victorian conservatory styles often included a Gothic shape to the windows and doors and complicated shapes in the roof, which was often steeply pitched, just like the roofs of Victorian houses.

A Victorian conservatory should blend with the property and not look like an afterthought. However old your property, though, your Victorian conservatory will have modern double-glazing, electric ventilation and underfloor heating.

Ideally, your Victorian conservatory's painted exterior will match the exterior of your property. Victorian conservatory styles often featured thin frames and glass. For manufacturers of modern Victorian conservatories, the trick is to replicate this style and still meet Building Regulations.

So, whether you want three or five facets, white or oak, your Ultraframe Victorian conservatory will look classic and elegant as well as being highly versatile and pleasing on the eye. At Ultraframe, all our Victorian conservatory styles are made to suit your needs. It's your choice about the finish you have or the position of the doors.

Victorian Style Conservatory Guarantee

Ultra Installers are required to offer you this kind of Insurance Cover. Please ensure you ask your chosen Ultra Installer about the details and you see the policy papers. It is their responsibility to provide this to you when you have used the 'Instant Quote' part of the web site which registers your interest in buying a conservatory.

The "Insurance Backed Guarantee" they provide to you should cover these important ingredients:

• If the retailer takes deposits, this needs to be covered
• Includes work in progress and failure to comply with the Building Regulations
• ensure it covers the full value of your installation
• Check that its fully transferable, if you sell your home
• Home security is important to everyone.

High Security Victorian Conservatories

Conservatories are often wrongly seen as a soft target for opportunist thieves because of the amount of glass in the building. This is simply not true, With good security features a conservatory is as secure as any other room in your home.

There are a number of things that you can do to make your conservatory as secure as possible:

• Ensure that you have internal beading on your glass, which prevents people from moving the glass externally.
• Doors should be fitted with multi point locking systems.
• Windows should be fitted with a shoot locking mechanism which pushes two bolts into the actual window frame
• Force resistant hinges should also be fitted to all windows and doors.
• Ask your installer if your conservatory is covered by BS7950/7412 which is awarded for improved security requirements of mechanical loading, human intervention and glazing security.
• If you are having a glass roof ensure you are getting toughened glass.
• There are many other security precautions on the outside of the conservatory you can undertake such as security lighting, secure locks on garden gates and even prickly bushes planted round the garden can deter would be thieves.