Orchard Skylights Maidstone is a rooflight installer working in Maidstone and in the mid-Kent towns and villages out to roughly 30 road miles around it. We put daylight into houses from above, and we take out old units that have failed.
The name comes from Kent's orchards. Growers prune an apple tree to an open centre so the sun reaches the fruit in the middle of the tree as well as on the outer branches. Houses can have the same problem inside, and the fix is similar.
What we do
Installation and replacement, across the whole range
We install and replace every kind of roof glazing: roof lanterns, flat roof rooflights, roof windows, VELUX windows, electric opening rooflights, energy-efficient units, walk-on glass, conservation rooflights and sun tunnels. A tired or misted unit is swapped for a new one, and the opening is made good around it.
The choice between those products is made at the house. A pitched slate roof over a landing wants something quite different from a flat extension roof over a utility room, and a sun tunnel suits a windowless bathroom where nothing else will fit. We fit all of them, so the choice rests on the house.
How we think about a house
Where the light stops
Some rooms get no daylight of their own: a bungalow hall with doors on every side, a landing between two bedrooms, a through-lounge with a dim stretch in the middle. Windows in the outer walls cannot reach those places, however large they are.
So we ask where the light stops before we ask about the roof. Our page on opening the centre of a house sets the thinking out in full. It is the reason a visit starts indoors, in the dark room itself.
Hall, landing, inner bathroom: rooms with no outside wall
How a job runs
From first message to handover
The steps run in the same order on every job.
What happens, and in what order
- Tell us about the room Use the form, email or WhatsApp. A couple of photos of the dark room and of the roof from the garden are enough to start.
- We survey, free We come to the house, measure the opening, look at the roof covering and the structure under it, and talk through the products that suit.
- A fixed written quote You receive the scope and the price in writing, and it is fixed once you have it.
- We fit it Our fitters open the roof, set the unit, weather it in and finish the lining inside.
- Handover and guarantee You get the paperwork, including the 10-year workmanship guarantee in writing, and we handle the Building Control notification where the work is notifiable.
Where we work
Maidstone first, then the towns around it
Our base is Maidstone, the county town of Kent, and we work outwards from there across mid-Kent. The areas we cover page lists the towns and villages, from Aylesford and West Malling to Tonbridge and Rochester.
We work at your home, and there are no public premises to visit. To book a survey, write to info@orchardskylightsmaidstone.co.uk or use WhatsApp, 07880 284133, or fill in the form.
