Considering replacing a conservatory with orangey - any experience?

[NickK]

we have a conservatory, with 3/4 wall and 1/4 walls what we’re thinking of doing is getting an extension/orangery then putting a beam to open up the back into it.
We may even move the kitchen to make the back one larger space.

Has anyone done something similar? Any experienced thoughts welcome.

 

[NickK]

My kitchen is an orangery, absolutely roasting in the summer and damp in the winter, dehumidifer on 24/7.

We bought the house with it and it looks nice but I would never be interested in anything similar again as I'm more of a function over form and minimalistic type of person and an orangery style kitchen is just too much for me. For others they might like it just because it looks nice and be willing to put up with the caveats, it is pretty cool cooking your tea under the stars.

Good point - we have a conservatory that the wife will open the window in the kitchen into (still have the outside wall) and the entire place steams up with condensation. We have the dehumidifier tablet devices to combat that.

One option is to change the layout so that the we switch so there's a kitchen and a larger living space. Extension with skylights is sort of what we're looking at - not a complete glass style orangery for the reason of minimising the 59degC in summer and have some insulation properties in winter. I'd also hope the extension style also facilitates some air flow around too by extending the heating into it - either way I will be fitting a big (over spec'd flow rate) kitchen extractor fan.

Sort of this style.. http://www.croftconservatories.co.u...ry-extension-by-croft-conservatories-preston/ which has more skylights than conservatory style.

If we get this built one thing I may ask for is a little ledge up in the skylights, so we can put dehumidifier tablet things up, so regardless of the situation the warm moist air trapped there will be dried out.

 

[NickK]

Hehe true.

The idea is only one set of folding doors; not really much different to an externsion with fancy patio doors

It would probably need classification as an extension so the heat can also be extended into that space.