About This Site and Who Writes It
This page says what conservatorycost.co.uk is, who maintains it, what we will not claim, and how the site is paid for.
What this site is
conservatorycost.co.uk publishes what conservatory work costs in the UK, and shows its working. The whole site rests on one price register: 222 priced rows, 210 of them carrying a named publisher and a date, and 12 published as gaps rather than filled in with a guess. Only 5 rows in the whole register clear our top evidence bar, and we say so on the pages that use them. Those same figures drive the Conservatory Cost Calculator.
We are a publisher, not a trade. Nobody here fits a conservatory, sells a roof system or holds a trade accreditation. What we do is read what other people publish, record each figure with the date we read it, and state plainly where two publishers disagree instead of averaging them into one tidy number that nobody actually charges. The method is set out in full in how we work out these figures, and everything we read is listed, dated, in the primary sources we use.
Who writes it
This page is maintained by Neil Whitaker, who spent around fifteen years on the survey and estimating side of the conservatory trade, measuring jobs and pricing them for installers. We research and publish UK conservatory prices from named sources and keep them on a re-check schedule. We do not fit conservatories, we do not sell them, and we have no quote of our own to protect. We are paid when an installer quotes someone we introduce, which is stated in full on how we make money.
He is not a scheme-registered installer and this site does not claim to be one. Surveying and estimating are not certified activities, so there is no registration number on this page and there should not be. When you come to hire, check that your own installer is registered before you commit, and ask to see it.
There is no photograph and no social profile linked here. Those are the easiest things on any trust page to fake, so this page carries the work instead: the register, its sources, its dates and its gaps, all of which you can check against the pages they appear on.
The work itself is narrow and fairly dull. It reads published price pages and records every figure against its publisher and its date. It reads the Approved Documents and the statutory instruments themselves rather than other people’s summaries of them. Then it re-checks the lot: our prices were last checked on 20 August 2026.
How we work
Three rules do most of the work. Every figure carries a source, a date and a confidence band, so you can see whether a number rests on four publishers or on one undated page. Where publishers contradict each other we publish both sides and the reason one is excluded. And nothing here is a quotation: these are estimates built from published figures, which is why why these figures are estimates has a page of its own. The long version, including what we will not publish at any price, is our editorial policy.
How this is paid for
Everything on this site is free to use and always will be. There is no sign-up, nothing to pay, and no figure sits behind a form. If you want firm prices as well as our estimate, you can ask for quotes, and at that point we pass your details to a partner who introduces you to installers. We are paid for that introduction. It costs you nothing, and it does not move a single number on this site, because the prices are compiled from published sources before anyone asks us for anything. We say it here rather than in the small print, and it is also why these figures are worth reading: we are not an installer, so we have no quote of our own to protect and no reason to talk a figure up or down.
What happens to the details themselves, and how to withdraw consent, is in the privacy policy. The rest of the arrangement, including the parts that are not flattering, is set out below.
Who we pass your details to
Our lead partner is Leads 2 Trade Limited, registered at Companies House under company number 05987279. They run a network of installers who buy enquiries from them. We do not choose which installer contacts you, we do not vet their workmanship and we never see their quote. The privacy policy lists what is sent to them, field by field.
Passing your details on in exchange for a fee is, in ordinary language, selling them. We would rather write that sentence than call it sharing.
How many installers may contact you
Up to four.
Leads 2 Trade sell four lead types and the numbers differ between them: one goes to a single installer, one to a maximum of three, one is sent up to four times, and one is offered on a first come, first served basis. Four is the largest of those, so four is the number we tell you. We would rather over-state it than have a fourth call arrive as a surprise.
What you are agreeing to is a free, no obligation survey or quotation visit, not merely a phone call. An installer rings first to confirm the details and book that visit, and the partner's call centre works an enquiry hard: on another site of ours running the same integration, that has meant up to nine phone attempts across three days, plus two texts and an email. If that is more contact than you want, do not use the quote form. The calculator shows you the estimate before it asks for a phone number, and stopping there is normal.
What we are paid, and what we will not tell you
We are paid a fee for each enquiry the partner accepts. It is a fee per introduction, not a share of what you spend: the same whether your roof costs £6,000 or £14,000, and nothing extra if you sign. If the enquiry is rejected, which happens when it cannot answer the questions their call centre has to ask, we are paid nothing at all.
For scale, the only per-lead figure Leads 2 Trade publish themselves is an average of £65 for a booked, no pitch no fee appointment, in an article of theirs dated 17 November 2021. We do not publish our own rate, because it comes from a commercial arrangement with no public document behind it and would be a number you could not check. If that changes, it goes on this page.
Why being paid this way does not bend the numbers
Being paid per introduction tempts a publisher to make its figures attractive rather than accurate. The defence here is structural: every figure carries its source, its date and its source count, and our sources are listed with the date we checked them, so an inflated range is contradicted by its own source line. It cuts the other way too. Where the evidence is thin we label it thin, and where we have no figure we trust we publish the gap instead. Read these are estimates, not quotations next.
What we will not do to earn a fee
We show you an installer count only where a dataset supports it, and we never publish a rating or review nobody sent us. Consent to marketing is separate and unticked, and no postcode is turned away. If you are outside the partner network we say so on screen and you still get your estimate. You can read where these figures come from next.
Lawful basis, and our regulator
| Who the controller is | The publisher of conservatorycost.co.uk, a sole trader in the United Kingdom. There is no limited company, so no company registration number. |
|---|---|
| Lawful basis for passing your details on | Your consent, under Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, given by pressing a submit button underneath wording that names Leads 2 Trade. Consent is the button, and no box on this site is pre-ticked. |
| Marketing by email or text message | A separate consent under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, from a box that starts unticked and that you never have to tick. |
One unusual detail. Leads 2 Trade's system has no field for consent anywhere in it, so the wording you were shown, its version, the timestamp, the page and your IP address are written into the notes that travel with the enquiry. That keeps your consent recoverable from their side as well as ours, and an enquiry that reaches us without the wording attached is never passed on.
What we do not claim
Most of the trust signals in this market are decoration. Here is the list we could put up and will not.
What this site is not
- Not an installer. We fit nothing, sell no roof system and take no commission on a job
- Not accredited by anybody. No FENSA, no CERTASS, no TrustMark, no LABC membership, no Which? endorsement, no trades directory listing. Those schemes register installers, and two of them exclude conservatories outright
- Not a review site. No ratings, no star counts, no testimonials, because we have no way to verify a single one
- Not advice. Nothing here is legal, structural or financial advice, and a survey beats every figure on this site
What this site is
- A price register with the publisher and the date attached to every row
- A reading of the primary regulation, quoted rather than paraphrased from somebody else’s blog
- A published list of what we do not know, and what would settle it
- A commercial relationship stated on the page, not buried in a footer
The clearest thing that work has produced is 22 verified industry errors: claims that circulate as fact across this market, each one set against the primary source that disproves it.
Get in touch
Corrections are welcome, and they are the fastest way to make this site better than it is today. If a figure here is wrong or has gone stale, contact us and say which page and which number. If what you actually want is to get quotes for your roof, that is a different form, and it asks for a phone number last.