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Orangery Specification and Materials

Design Construction Specification

We have a wide product range to enable you to achieve a bespoke orangery design that will enhance theappearance of your home and provide you with a unique living space. A light and functional space that can beused as a real extension to the home, dining, space for a growing family, an extended lounge or a place to enjoythe garden.

Orangery Roof External Detailing

Traditional orangeries have very complicated roof designs, the ‘Livin Room’ orangery roof from Ultra Frame usedan aluminum external cornice to create a different appearance to that of a conventional conservatory. Thisattractive and effective feature is finished to compliment the colour of the conservatory and can be used on themost complicated designs incorporating valleys and box valley guttering.

Internal Finishing and Roof Glazing

The most popular feature of a modern orangery roof is the internal plastered lighting pelmet. This deep internalfinish breaks the line between the orangery roof and the side elevations below. Orangery roofs are typicallyglazed with glass, modern conservatory roof glazing is energy efficient, has self cleaning properties, providessolar protection from the sun and filters UV light. Polycarbonate roof glazing is also available to suit differentcustomers needs and design briefs.

Window Types and Materials

Typically PVCU casement windows are used in the modern bespoke orangery design but in fact there are manydifferent material and colour options available to enable you to create an orangery design that encompasses thecharacteristics of your home and has an element of individual flare to the orangery design. In addition to ourdecorative PVCU frames er have white foil finish PVCU windows, coloured foil finish PVCU windows, sliding sashwindows in a wide range of colours and finishes, timber look windows and of course actual timber windows.

Door Alternatives

Most modern orangeries will include a French door in the design. French door are a really popular ‘patio door’design that is practical, secure and easy to use. A really popular feature is to include fully glazed side panels to thefrench doors allowing the doors to fold back 180 degrees against the side panels. While this visually works itmake a really practical French door design for the summer months. Our French doors are double handed, comewith a low level easy access aluminum threshold and over head restrictions as standard. In our list of options arethe really popular thumb turn locks which enable you to lock and unlock the doors without the key, we have hadconstantly good feedback about these for years. Single doors can be incorporated in the design and bi-foldingdoors are a really popular alternative to French doors either in PVCU or aluminum finishes. Bi-folding doors dorequire the roof to be strengthened to carry the weight no supported by any integral sections below, we can adviseon the design constraints on an individual basis.

Colours and Finishes

We have a wide range of foil finish PVCU profiles available as well as a completely bespoke colour rangematching up to any RAL colour code. The orangery roof can be coloured to match including the orangery externalcornice detailing.

Orangery Window Energy Ratings

As standard all our PVCU casement windows are ‘A’ Rated (frame and glazingcombined) with full steel reinforcing: “To find the best windows and doorsfor your home look to find a combination of full reinforcing and a full ‘A’energy rating for both the glazing and surrounding PVCU frame with theappropriate reinforcing – make an energy efficient and secureinvestment”

Window Energy Ratings and Security – Our Standard Specification:

An easy and extremely common way to achieve Window Energy Ratings is toomit some or all of the steel reinforcing from the outer frame and integralsections; we however feel that reinforcing is too important for the security ofthe window or door frame i.e the performance of the locking systems, screwretention and flex in the PVCU section under break in conditions relies totallyon the reinforcing, so we have opted to keep our windows and doors FULLY REINFORCED AS STANDARD andspecify the appropriate glazing to achieve an ‘A’ Window Energy Rating. Reinforcing is also crucial to long termdurability and preventing excess movement in the frame that occurs with changes in temperature.

Typical Orangery Base and Wall Specifications

Concrete footings a minimum of 450 – 500 mm– or suitable standard forlocal site conditions, if ground is soft we will dig further or reinforce withsteel, on a sandy base we can expect to dig approximately 700mm down. On high walls or full height walls you can expect our footings to be asdeep as 650mm or suitable for the site we are working on.

Wall heights and brick pillar heights to suit metric or imperial bricks andthe customers final orangery design

Bridge any under-ground drains

Compacted Road stone / Blinded with sand

Damp proof membrane / Damp Course

Solid concrete floor

Insulated concrete floor and cavity walls

Plastered internal wall finish

Finished floor level will is brought up to to the DPC level of the house orlevel floor finish if requested by our customer

Laminated internal window boards

Timber or laminated skirting boards

Ceramic floor tiling

All waste materials and excavated ground will be cleared from site and site is cleaned thoroughly on a dailybasis

(Waste Carriers Licence No. EAN/946172)