Nobody will tell you what a sunroom costs
Try it this afternoon. Search for a sunroom or a small addition where you live, click the first six results, and count how many name a price. In my experience it is none of them. What you get instead is a form: your name, your postal code, your phone number, and someone will be in touch to book a consultation.
I do not think that is because the price is hard to work out. I think it is because the number is higher than you are expecting, and everyone in the business knows that a number delivered in your kitchen, after an hour of rapport, lands better than the same number on a web page.
What that costs you
Two things. The obvious one is your afternoon. The less obvious one is that you cannot compare anything. If three companies each require a call before they will quote, then finding out your options costs three evenings, and most people quite reasonably do one and stop — which means the first company you called has effectively won by being first, not by being right.
It also means the question you actually have — is this affordable enough to be worth thinking about at all? — never gets answered. You are asked to invest in the conversation before anyone will tell you whether the conversation is worth having.
So here is ours
A Sophab Solarium is a curved, glazed arch that attaches to a wall of the house you already own — no new foundation, no demolition. Our own estimate for one comes out at roughly a third of what a conventional heated addition of the same floor area costs. You can get that number for your own house, on your own wall, in about five minutes, without talking to anybody.
One caveat, because it matters and I would rather say it here than have you find it later: a Sophab is a glazed, solar-tempered room. It is not an insulated, drywalled, furnace-fed addition, and those are not the same thing to own. The estimate shows you both, itemised by trade, so you can judge the trade yourself instead of taking my word for the ratio.
Nobody will call you.
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