Other than to dump stuff or dry clothes, what is the point? 21c outside and it's 44.8c in the conservatory. My glue sticks melted.
There's about 1 month a year where it's at a decent temperature in the evenings.
by JoeyJoeC
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Would love to have one to fill with tropical plants and cactuses.
One month you say?
Totally worth it.
You could also says what’s the point in gardens as the weather is only good one month a year.
Is leave the door open to the house and let it heat my house for a month.
Cheaper than an extension, ideal for filling with shit when you have kids.
What’s the point in a house when you could just live in a tent?
Looks more posh than a shed.
Be brilliant for drying clothes
To cure meats?
I can’t recommend that conservatory roof insulation enough, it’s brilliant and completely transformed ours into a proper useable living space that’s no longer boiling hot or freezing but an extra room we use every day of the year now. I can’t remember how much we paid as it was a good few years ago now but it was worth every penny.
We had to change the thermometer we had in ours as the heat would destroy the screen. Made it to 55 degrees once.
It’s good for when the temperature is just a bit too nippy to sit in the garden, nice on an evening (,you can leave the doors open for a bit to let the heat out) amazing to sit and read in when it rains.
I’d like one in (on?) my next house, but it’s not a deal breaker.
My dad actually broke his arse falling off ours once. We had family visiting and apparently we simply had to have a clean conservatory roof. He had was washing it, stood on the roof which was covered in water and soap, he fell, fractured my mum’s arm on the way down and broke his arse bone.
Cos glazing salespeople are often REALLY good at their jobs. Some might say *too* good.
Somewhere for the spiders to live
We tore down the one our previous house owners built themselves which leaked like crazy and rebuilt it with a solid roof and the proper insulation. Decent thermal blinds on the windows too.
Is usable all year round for us now, rather than being freezing (and full of water/ice) in the winter and baking in the summer.
I went out with someone who built conservatories in the late 80s/early 90s. It was mad. Everyone wanted one. It seemed like most of the companies made massive profits for a few years (they didn’t seem difficult to build) and then the craze massively dropped off and they all went bust. I think the ones with a glass roof are the worst for heat/cold.
Breadmaking. They’re fantastic for proving dough.
We got rid of our conservatory finally. It had become a place to leave things lying around. Usable perhaps for a few weeks in the year. Extortionate to heat effectively, impossible to cool in hot summer.
I’d be interested to hear some success stories from others who use their conservatory and how they effectively regulate the temperature within it.
My wife uses ours for growing tomatoes and jalapeños.
Also, British summer is fucking freezing. It’s the only way I can get a proper summer day in the UK as an American. We have a futon in ours and I take afternoon naps in it.
You gotta use them properly, you open them up when it’s spring time to heat rest of your home (and therefore cool it as well)
If it gets too hot in summer, they have these magical things called doors and windows, they will cool it further.
In addition, if you didn’t have one, what would you do with it instead? Empty grass land which is useless anyway.
Sit in one when it’s pissing it down outside, it’s great!
Because there’s a 14% chance of you feeling *meh* in them?
You’re supposed to trap that heat in there now, and let it into your house in winter
Put a proper insulated roof conversion on to it and it’s completely transformed into a practical, bright and airy living space.
We went for the brick wall route. Not quite an extension, not quite a conservatory. An orangery perhaps? Never really understood that definition. But full brick walls, insulation, windows run along the width and electric velux on the roof.
Made a real difference to the price of course, but we heard similar ‘horror’ stories from friends who said they couldn’t use it at both ends of the temperature spectrum, and one said the wind was also a problem with rattling panels.
Glad we were able to afford the extra outlay, cause 44C is mad, and it’s not even warm outside right now!
Just need to wait a few hours and the garden will no longer be hot but you’ll have a lovely warm conservatory
To sit on wicker furniture in full view of the neighbours, according to the much missed Victoria Wood
Conservatories were popularised before temperatures skyrocketed to the point they have now. It was a good way to have a slightly warmer day in autmn and spring when it was sunny but not particularly hot outside.
Cuz they require 0 planning to errect which makes them massively cheaper than an extension, also have had the roof changed on mine to combat the overheating over cooling Look up cosy roof ..
Get some kangaroo paws (plants) and Sturt desert pea or Sturt desert roses, they all can deal with high temps and freezing nights.
Modern conservatory roofs and insulation is way better than it used to be, so if you get them up to scratch they’re fantastic spaces…just be prepared to folk out a good £10k+ to do that. Not cheap!
I use mine like a sauna
Cheap extension. If brick extensions were the same price nobody would buy and staple a greenhouse to their house.
To dry clothes .
“Yeah, but it’s a dry heat”
I just bought two of these humidity and temp sensors like 2 days ago so funny to see one on my feed. They’re pretty good for keeping your climate in your house/flat on point!
Our cats fucking love ours!
Trick is to have velux windows/sky light type thing.
Heat rises, open the windows and the heat will just dissipate out the conservatory.
You know those days when the sun’s beating down and it’s like 30C outside and you just want to find somewhere warm to hide? Now you’ve got somewhere great for those.
But wait, there’s more – those freezing winter days where you need somewhere inside that damp and somehow even colder? Don’t worry, we’ve got that covered too!
I inherited a shit 90’s conservatory from the previous owners.
I use it for cat stuff. Somewhere to chuck litter boxes, big toys like tunnels, and a cat tree that’s a bit out of the way. They like basking in the sun and having many viewing angles for birds including directly beneath them when they land on the roof. Mine are scaredy rescues, they know they can go hide there and no guests will bother them.
There’s vague plans to put a proper roof on at some point, but it’ll just be so the cats are more comfortable having a shit in winter. It’s clearly their room now.
42 comments
Would love to have one to fill with tropical plants and cactuses.
One month you say?
Totally worth it.
You could also says what’s the point in gardens as the weather is only good one month a year.
Is leave the door open to the house and let it heat my house for a month.
Cheaper than an extension, ideal for filling with shit when you have kids.
What’s the point in a house when you could just live in a tent?
Looks more posh than a shed.
Be brilliant for drying clothes
To cure meats?
I can’t recommend that conservatory roof insulation enough, it’s brilliant and completely transformed ours into a proper useable living space that’s no longer boiling hot or freezing but an extra room we use every day of the year now. I can’t remember how much we paid as it was a good few years ago now but it was worth every penny.
We had to change the thermometer we had in ours as the heat would destroy the screen. Made it to 55 degrees once.
It’s good for when the temperature is just a bit too nippy to sit in the garden, nice on an evening (,you can leave the doors open for a bit to let the heat out) amazing to sit and read in when it rains.
I’d like one in (on?) my next house, but it’s not a deal breaker.
My dad actually broke his arse falling off ours once. We had family visiting and apparently we simply had to have a clean conservatory roof. He had was washing it, stood on the roof which was covered in water and soap, he fell, fractured my mum’s arm on the way down and broke his arse bone.
Cos glazing salespeople are often REALLY good at their jobs. Some might say *too* good.
Somewhere for the spiders to live
We tore down the one our previous house owners built themselves which leaked like crazy and rebuilt it with a solid roof and the proper insulation. Decent thermal blinds on the windows too.
Is usable all year round for us now, rather than being freezing (and full of water/ice) in the winter and baking in the summer.
I went out with someone who built conservatories in the late 80s/early 90s. It was mad. Everyone wanted one. It seemed like most of the companies made massive profits for a few years (they didn’t seem difficult to build) and then the craze massively dropped off and they all went bust. I think the ones with a glass roof are the worst for heat/cold.
Breadmaking. They’re fantastic for proving dough.
We got rid of our conservatory finally. It had become a place to leave things lying around. Usable perhaps for a few weeks in the year. Extortionate to heat effectively, impossible to cool in hot summer.
I’d be interested to hear some success stories from others who use their conservatory and how they effectively regulate the temperature within it.
My wife uses ours for growing tomatoes and jalapeños.
Also, British summer is fucking freezing. It’s the only way I can get a proper summer day in the UK as an American. We have a futon in ours and I take afternoon naps in it.
You gotta use them properly, you open them up when it’s spring time to heat rest of your home (and therefore cool it as well)
If it gets too hot in summer, they have these magical things called doors and windows, they will cool it further.
In addition, if you didn’t have one, what would you do with it instead? Empty grass land which is useless anyway.
Sit in one when it’s pissing it down outside, it’s great!
Because there’s a 14% chance of you feeling *meh* in them?
You’re supposed to trap that heat in there now, and let it into your house in winter
Put a proper insulated roof conversion on to it and it’s completely transformed into a practical, bright and airy living space.
We went for the brick wall route. Not quite an extension, not quite a conservatory. An orangery perhaps? Never really understood that definition. But full brick walls, insulation, windows run along the width and electric velux on the roof.
Made a real difference to the price of course, but we heard similar ‘horror’ stories from friends who said they couldn’t use it at both ends of the temperature spectrum, and one said the wind was also a problem with rattling panels.
Glad we were able to afford the extra outlay, cause 44C is mad, and it’s not even warm outside right now!
Just need to wait a few hours and the garden will no longer be hot but you’ll have a lovely warm conservatory
To sit on wicker furniture in full view of the neighbours, according to the much missed Victoria Wood
Conservatories were popularised before temperatures skyrocketed to the point they have now. It was a good way to have a slightly warmer day in autmn and spring when it was sunny but not particularly hot outside.
Cuz they require 0 planning to errect which makes them massively cheaper than an extension, also have had the roof changed on mine to combat the overheating over cooling
Look up cosy roof ..
Get some kangaroo paws (plants) and Sturt desert pea or Sturt desert roses, they all can deal with high temps and freezing nights.
Modern conservatory roofs and insulation is way better than it used to be, so if you get them up to scratch they’re fantastic spaces…just be prepared to folk out a good £10k+ to do that. Not cheap!
I use mine like a sauna
Cheap extension. If brick extensions were the same price nobody would buy and staple a greenhouse to their house.
To dry clothes .
“Yeah, but it’s a dry heat”
I just bought two of these humidity and temp sensors like 2 days ago so funny to see one on my feed. They’re pretty good for keeping your climate in your house/flat on point!
Our cats fucking love ours!
Trick is to have velux windows/sky light type thing.
Heat rises, open the windows and the heat will just dissipate out the conservatory.
You know those days when the sun’s beating down and it’s like 30C outside and you just want to find somewhere warm to hide? Now you’ve got somewhere great for those.
But wait, there’s more – those freezing winter days where you need somewhere inside that damp and somehow even colder? Don’t worry, we’ve got that covered too!
I inherited a shit 90’s conservatory from the previous owners.
I use it for cat stuff. Somewhere to chuck litter boxes, big toys like tunnels, and a cat tree that’s a bit out of the way. They like basking in the sun and having many viewing angles for birds including directly beneath them when they land on the roof. Mine are scaredy rescues, they know they can go hide there and no guests will bother them.
There’s vague plans to put a proper roof on at some point, but it’ll just be so the cats are more comfortable having a shit in winter. It’s clearly their room now.
My washing dries really quickly
Cat bedroom