You spend thousands on the outdoor space. And then pass by it daily not using it.
Occurs every time with covered patios. When they are in place they are bright, the builder is done and you are standing there dreaming about lazy Sunday mornings with coffee and papers all over and the world just waking up around you. It is where you keep the bikes of the kids and some plant pots you intended to attend to in August, six months ago.
The patterns of usage narrate otherwise with a glass veranda. Individuals who install them say that they use the space nearly every day. Not occasionally. Not just in summer. When utilised correctly as a continuation of their home space year-round, the type of space you end up in giving no conscious consideration to it. It is a matter of comfort, rather than style.
Why Do the Majority of Covered pPtios Remain vacant?
Your patio is covered by a roof. That’s about it. The wind keeps on blowing in all directions, cold air defies the season and never comes out until the month of April comes around once again. You are sitting out there in March with bright notions of spring being early and perhaps lasting fifteen minutes till you retire to the house with your fingers numbing.
The psychology matters too. A patio with a roof is like an outside patio with a lid. Your brain interprets it as an outdoor space, so you only consider using this as the weather is actually nice and you have the rare blend of warmth, sunshine and no wind that occurs some 40 days a year in Britain when it is lucky.
Furniture suffers out there. Wetness invades cushions and occupies them like an unwanted visitor even under a roof. One winter, Wood begins to look weary. You have that cheap plastic stuff because you realize that anything good will wear out, and then you do not want to sit on cheap plastic furniture that will stick to your legs in summer, so you do not.
As soon as the sun goes down lighting is a problem. Outdoor lights are an option but they never seem to fit right, they are either dim enough never to read a book or they are too bright and you sit in the spotlight with the neighbours wondering what you are up to. The majority of individuals retreat and go indoors when it becomes dark.
The Glass Veranda Differences in the everyday life
Glass walls make the difference. You are suddenly shielded against the wind which would otherwise make you stuff your cardigan and abandon the entire notion. Even without heating, the temperature in the house remains 5 to 10 degrees above the outside. That will give you months of extended comfortable use, putting you into the area where a covered patio would be completely intolerable.
A morning cup of coffee is now a year-long routine and not something that you only get to do on good days. You are looking on the garden waking up, with natural light streaming in on all sides, and you are outside, without the inconvenience of being at the mercy of British weather. Rain hammering down? Doesn’t matter. You are warm and dry and the sound of it striking the glass roof is strangely pleasant instead of something to make you change your plans.
Massively so evening use. Glass verandas are such a room when you put in some lighting, that type of room where you can sit down and spend hours instead of sitting on the edge of your seat and wondering when you will feel too cold. You have a view but you are a prisoner. Safe. Protected. Diner is taken out there, people do their work there, on laptops, with the second coffee of the afternoon, children study their homework on the floor. It is made into actual living space instead of being weather dependent luxury that you spend three times a summer.
The furniture state of affairs sorts itself. Indoor furnitures will do the job as it is actually shielded against the outside factors so that you have comfortable seating rather than those hard wooden benches that make you change your sitting every five minutes. Good cushions that do not become mouldy. Then you find yourself picking furniture that you would like to sit on and drink a cup of coffee on, the stuff you would have chosen to use in your living room and not the one that will not be ruined.
What When It Is Properly Cold?
January and February put any out-of-doors place to the test as to the type of cold that makes you wonder why you reside in this nation. A patio which is covered up is useless unless you are the kind of person who likes sitting in the open air in a coat eating soup with your breath fogging up.
This is changed with glass verandas that are heated. Even when the weather is freezing and the garden is covered with frost, a little electric heater or infrared panel will be able to make the area comfortable. You do not actually need to heat the whole garden since the warmth is stored in the glass appropriately which implies that the running expenses remain within affordable limits rather than seeing your power bill skyrocket into frightening dimensions.
Other individuals do not even bother to heat it. Instead, they simply appreciate the space working perfectly between March and November and is not used during two months, which is still nine months of normal use compared to perhaps three months of patio use which is covered.
Condensation is something to be concerned about but this is hardly a problem when you have good airflow. Open a door or a window ajar and air flows sufficiently. The glass stays mostly clear.
The Cost Reality Check
An entry level covered patio would be between £3,000 and 6,000 based on size and material. Posts of timber, a roof, perhaps some electricals. Simple building without the use of anything that is relatively tricky.
Glass veranda begins at 8-10,000 pounds and it doesn’t take long to make up 15,000 pounds plus to have top quality glass veranda fitted with slipping glass panels that actually slide together instead of jamming every time you want to use them. Triple the cost isn’t unusual. That would be a large sum of money to add some glass walls to something that you could have done at a lesser cost.
This is where the usage patterns are worth the cost in a manner that makes the first shock of the quote come down easier. Do you use your covered patio 40 days annually? It is between £75 and 150 a day during the initial year of use. Amortise it in ten years and it still becomes expensive per real use day.
Spend 250 days per year on your glass veranda since it is comfortable enough to make it a part of your everyday life? The price per day reduces significantly. You are living in that area, taking breakfast there and reading the news on your tablet, doing work there when you feel like you just need to get out of the house, playing with friends there. It turns into square feet that you actually live in as opposed to a luxury that was featured in the brochure periodically.
Others move their whole evening experience to the glass veranda during the spring and fall. Children play there, grown-ups read there sitting on comfortable chairs, all tend to concentrate there as it is cozy and nice and somehow better than sitting in the proper house. That type of heavy usage makes the initial investment worthwhile as opposed to a costly error.
The Furniture Choice that No One Would Make
Patios that are covered require outdoor furniture. It is quite costly should you desire anything comfortable. Cheap products collapse in less than two seasons. You are paying £1,000 -2000 to buy good weatherproofed furniture that is still not as comfortable as the stuff you have in the house and is collecting dust in the spare room.
Glass verandas are such that you can take the existing furniture out without worrying that it will be spoiled the first good rainstorm. Your last-year replacement sofa? Perfect. Dining chairs that were not exactly suitable to the new kitchen table? They’ll do fine. You are not purchasing professional outdoor furniture since the area is enclosed enough to accommodate ordinary goods that would otherwise fester immediately outdoors.
This is cheap but also results in your glass veranda feeling like an actual room as soon as it happens instead of that transitional room which cannot be defined by any particular place. It comes with items in line with the style of your home. Splendid seats you have broken in. No loss of books or magazines by the damp night in the rain, or blown over three gardens.
How Weather Patterns Change Everything
British weather is the difference maker or difference breaker when it comes to the use of the outdoor space and this is what estate agents never refer to when they are discussing the place of a garden. Covered patios are wonderful until the moment you realise that during most summer days you are likely to have at least one shower, and more than that many days when the weather is in a particularly malevolent mood. You are forever looking at the forecast, bringing cushions in and out like you were in some kind of furniture relay race, and you are afraid to leave anything valuable outside at night.
With enclosed space is gone that mental load. Rain forecast? Irrelevant. With your glass veranda, you can keep it dry and use it no matter what the sky may choose to hurl at you. You forget thinking of weather as an obstacle to occupying the space, you forget doing that thing of looking outside to see whether it is worth the bother. It is simply an extra room you can walk in anytime you feel like having a change of environment.
With patios covered, people do not anticipate the wind as a problem. You can never leave papers outside and they end up in the garden of the next door. Candles blow out even with glass hurricane things. It is uncomfortable even to sit down and have the wind blow through the open sides because it seems to funnel the wind into everything making it feel about ten degrees colder than it actually is. Glass walls eradicate this and make a situation that would have been uncomfortable experience a really pleasant one.
The change of seasons of use is the best story of all that can be told by any sales pitch. The patio owners who have the covered patios will use their space in full force during the months of June and July when the weather is favourable and everybody is in that optimistic summer mood. September is the month when usage declines, since evenings are now cold, and the novelty of it is exhausted. October? The one is basically left until the next spring when the process begins once more. The owners of glass verandas continue utilizing their space until the fall, and even after that, with proper heating, until the spring when everyone is still waiting before the temperatures rise. The real life occurs there instead of the room being vacant most of the year gathering fallen leaves and spiders.