GLASS VERANDAS

Live Life Longer Outdoors – The Glass Veranda Is the Perfect UK Weather Protection Solution.

Enhance your home and elevate your outdoor lifestyle with a standard or bespoke Glass Veranda from Samson Outdoor Living! Imagine effortlessly expanding your living space, creating a stunning, sheltered area that blends style, comfort, and practicality. Our expertly designed glass verandas not only provide year-round protection from the elements but also offer unobstructed views of your garden, turning your outdoor space into a bright, elegant extension of your home.

When you choose Samson Outdoor Living, you’re not just investing in a veranda you’re getting a high-quality, durable structure that transforms patios, balconies, and gardens into inviting retreats for friends and family gatherings or peaceful relaxation. With our extensive range and customisable options, we make it easy for you to design the perfect veranda to complement your home’s style. Enjoy the rainfall falling above your head whilst you stay dry underneath.

Don’t settle for less, choose the best with Samson Outdoor Living. Create the outdoor space you’ve always dreamed of and enjoy it in comfort, no matter the season.’

• * An aluminium glass veranda is a 100% waterproof solution for rain protection.
• * Rainwater is collected to then be directed away from your outdoor area.
• * Nothing needs retracting as it is built for all weather use, wind and rain.
• * Creates a defined outdoor space to develop with furniture and lighting, etc.
• * Minimal maintenance, no moving parts and only needs to be kept clean.
• * Most verandas are modular to enable additional products to be added.
• * Guaranteed longevity with corrosion resistant aluminium framework.
• * The perfect UK weather protection solution when fitted with a roof blind.

Glass Veranda Price Examples

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Stylish, high quality, made to measure glass verandas, manufactured from the highest quality aluminium profiles and finished in super tough textured and smooth powder coat colour options can be the perfect outdoor protection for you and your garden furniture.

Maximum light is transmitted through our these sytems using either 10.8mm or 12mm safety glass in the roof to provide maximum light levels and maximum confidence of longevity, far better and stronger than the majority of systems using 8 or 6mm glass. Polycarbonate roofing is fine of course if you don’t mind the noise from rainfall on the polycarbonate.

Samson has been one of the UK market leaders in made to measure glass and polycarbonate veranda systems since 2006, offering contemporary and more traditional styling options, small or large, with the highest quality aluminium sections for longevity and stability. Built in rainwater guttering and rain dispersal via the support posts give excellent control of the rainfall.

Our glass verandas are an excellent way to create a seamless bridge between your inside and outside spaces, with a sheltered and protected area that also feels fresh and add stylish extra space to your home quickly and easily.

 

OUR SELECTION OF GLASS AND ALUMINIUM VERANDAS

 

GLASS VERANDA PRICE GUIDES

The glass and aluminium veranda is perhaps one of the most perfect weather protection solutions for making an outdoor space comfortable, 100% waterproof roof and usable throughout the year in the UK.

It is particularly relevant if a retractable fabric roof blind is included underneath or above the glass roof itself, providing sun shade for the hotter months, with the all year round rain protection as standard.

Choose from various aluminium framework verandas, either wall mounted or free standing and with various styles in the posts and roof bar designs to suit period, modern or contemporary homes and also commercial premises.

Prices showing below are for supply and delivery as installation prices can vary so much depending on what wall and ground conditions are presented. A veranda can take anywhere between 5 hours to 2 days to install depending what preparation is required or not.

Simple Slimline Veranda

Price From £3,500

What’s included:

• * Sizes up to 7m x 4m with laminated 8.8mm glass roof
• * Also available with polycarbonate roof options for projects with greater projection
• * Made to measure
• * Slim profile framework ideal for smaller sizes
• * 5 year warranty

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Standard Modern Veranda

Price From £4,500

What’s included:

• * Sizes up to 20m x 5m with 8.8mm laminated glass roof
• * Made to measure
• * Larger profile framework ideal for medium to larger sizes
• * Additional weather protection products can be added to the side or front
• * 10 year warranty

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Victorian Style Veranda

Price From £5,500

What’s included:

• * Sizes up to 20m x 5m with 8.8mm laminated glass roof
• * Made to measure
• * Larger profile framework ideal for medium to larger sizes
• * Additional weather protection products can be added to the sides or front
• * 10 year warranty

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Luxury Traditional Veranda

Price From £9,000

What’s included:

• * Sizes up to 20m x 6m with laminated 10.8mm glass roof
• * Traditional frame
• * Modular build allowing front and side weather protection products to be added
• * Over 60 standard colours
• * Complete made to measure sizing
• * Custom Shaping for odd sized spaces
• * 10 year warranty
• * CAD drawings for the perfect manufacturing specifications
• * Choice of over 60 standard frame colours with options for any special colour match

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Flat Roof Style Veranda

Price From £8,000

What’s included:

• * Sleek flat roof design in complete made to measure sizing
• * Sizing up to 12m x 4m with 10mm glass roof
• * Modular build allowing front and side weather protection to be added
• * Over 60 standard colours
• * LED Lighting options in multiple positions
• * 10 year warranty
• * CAD drawings for the perfect manufacturing specifications
• * Choice of over 60 standard frame colours with options for any special colour match

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Luxury Veranda with Sun Blind

Price From £13,000

What’s included:

• * Sizes up to 20m x 6m with 10.8mm laminated glass roof
• * Made to measure sizing in width and projection dimensions for perfect fitting
• * Modular build allowing front and side weather protection to be added
• * Choice of over 60 standard frame colours with options for any special colour match and over 200 fabric choices
• * 10 year warranty on structure and 5 year warranty on awning
• * CAD drawings for the perfect manufacturing specifications

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ENJOY YOUR GARDEN & PATIO AREA, WHATEVER THE WEATHER

The absolute art of living outside and yet inside so much more of the time… The perfect solution to the British weather, nearly all year round. A beautiful glass roof above your head to protect from the rain and with the built in roof blind, perfect sun shade and light protection at the touch of a button.

Define your outdoor space and use it most of the year round with total confidence in the strength and integrity of any of our superb glass veranda structures, with specifications well above the average standard systems available for DIY installations sold in standard sizes.

Correctly specified and installed any one of our veranda systems can offer very real and measurable protection from our very changeable UK weather, something an awning can only offer with some serious limitations. The widths and projections available are incredible, with projections from a wall up to 6 metres and with widths almost limitless. Most are made to order to the millimetre to perfectly fit your home and garden.

Add to one or all of the sides at the initial purchase stage or later down the line when you work out where you need protection, any of the following:

A GLASS VERANDA WITH SIDES

Most glass verandas end up with one or both sides infilled from a wide range of options that offer greater protection from wind, rain, general dust and debris and also for many people offers extra privacy and some noise protection either way.

Many customers want to further enhance overall weather protection, but also make it feel more comfortable underneath the veranda and part way towards an outdoor ‘room’
Most verandas will point directly towards your garden area and this is why the front is left open more often than the sides, purely for the view and access.

You start with a veranda roof, whether it be a sloping or flat aluminium framework design. From this extra aluminium framework you can add other elements to begin to enclose further.

On a sloping, lean to veranda, the open side has to first deal with the triangular shaped section, which in most cases is fitting a wedge shape glass polycarbonate or solid aluminium infill in its own framework, which creates a straight header top section for the open area underneath.

With this now square, or rectangular shape. you can install many different fixed or retractable options as required and to offer weather protection or privacy, or both in many cases – a neighbours fence, or maybe an unused area of your garden or patio or a walkway.

For any flat roof aluminium veranda there is no triangular shape to infill making it easier to install sides to such a structure. The wall mounted or stand alone flat glass veranda systems are easier to complete as an enclosed outdoor room.

Other pergola systems which have been very popular for many years include retractable fabric roof systems, either fitted as sloping wall mounted models, or as flat roof structures with a curved fabric retractable roof. Fabric pergola systems offer a different fell altogether underneath, particularly if you use one of the modern triple layered fabrics, which let natural light through, but are also 100% waterproof..

What are the actual differences for commercial pergolas?

ULTIMATE WEATHER PROTECTION

These systems can also incorporate folding or sliding glass doors and other weather protection options to the sides and front to offer the ultimate protection and outdoor space in the form of a ‘glass room’ or ‘winter garden room’ as they are generally known in Northern Europe, however the name should not be taken too literally as they are definitely for most of the year round use.

✔Glass Sliding Doors or Walls

✔Fixed Glass or Aluminium Walling

✔Electric Vertical Fabric Blinds with solid or partial vision fabrics

✔Horizontal Fabric Awnings

✔Folding Glass Doors

Add to one or all of the sides at the initial purchase stage or later down the line when you work out where you need protection, any of the following:

MANUFACTURERS

BESPOKE VERANDA DESIGN

You can choose from more veranda design options than most other companies offer, with different roof bar styles and support profile sizes and shapes to suit the overall size of the veranda and your property style.
We offer super sleek and clean designs with square profile through to a far more traditional style of veranda with a Victorian style support post design recreating the designs used many years ago on period properties. The choice is yours…

ULTRA MODERN – FLAT ROOF

If you are looking for bespoke shapes our glass verandas are now available in a flat roof design structure as well as totally stand alone systems, when fixing to the house wall is difficult or the system is required to be away from the property.
The newest and instantly popular model, the ‘Pure’, offers a totally flat roof to co ordinate with so many modern and contemporary properties where an angled roof doesn’t work aesthetically.
The Pure has sloping glass within a flat roof bar system and the final appearance is stunning and perfect for medium or larger size applications. Of course, additional side and front infills are so much easier with straight and 90 degree angles to work form.

Our newest flat roof veranda system is very popular as it fits the design of so many more modern homes and also doesn’t require the height at the wall mounting point that sloping lean to systems required.

SUN SHADING – NO PROBLEM The range of built in retractable fabric awnings available give the ultimate flexibility in specification and overall climate control, all dependent on your requirements and the position of the veranda to the sun. Usually positioned under your veranda roof, the built in electric awning system will remain protected throughout its life, protected from weathering, debris or pooling rain water. Even after years of use your awning fabric will rarely become stained, weathered or dirty.

The fabric can be extended or retracted to any position at the push of a button and provides protection on those hottest days and when the midday sun is intense.

What it generally doesn’t do however, unlike bladed roof systems, is plunge you into darkness, as the beautiful fabrics all let various degrees of sunlight through (apart from black of course) just like any normal awning does. There are over 150 fabrics to choose from for the roof blind systems.

Another great addition from any glass veranda facing South or West is a front mounted vertical electric blind. This will give control of the lower lying sun when you sit out in the Summer and Autumn months and it gets to late afternoon. Privacy is also provided by this blind and the various fabrics offer either a solid fabric option or perforated for partial vision. These vertical blinds can of course be fitted to any of the sides for most of our models.

 

ANY SIZE

Glass verandas help to extend the usability of your outside space, allowing you a much more comfortable use of your patio and garden area in the evenings. We can couple systems back to back for a hipped style roof design or have limitless width options for the very widest patios.

We also offer systems specifically for commercial applications where function often takes over from form and the size of cover is a commercial scale. 

SOME BASIC FACTS

A major attraction for a glass veranda, apart from the many benefits it brings for the home or business in terms of additional quality space is the fact they can be installed relatively quickly and without major building works required. Generally they don’t need planning permission and are considered a temporary structure in planning law, however if you are looking at a large veranda or if you live in a listed property or conservation area then you would be wise to speak to your local authority for clarification. We can assist in providing drawings and details for any interactions with your local authority and have done so many times over the years.

We can provide drawings for use in planning your perfect outdoor space. Many people incorporate outdoor kitchens, built in seating and other items to create into a larger scale project and the aesthetics, support post placement, lighting and ability to add additional items at a later date are all very important factors to consider. Most of our verandas are totally bespoke in every way and not just sizes. Make the very best of your new outdoor living area and let us assist you with drawings, specifications and options.

The most important factor is making sure your outdoor area is totally fit for purpose and how you envisaged it in the original concept, without overestimating the ability to use it 365 days a year. The simple fact is you wouldn’t want to use it all year round and on the darkest, coldest, dampest days of winter you will be indoors and not want to see or be anywhere near the outdoors.

You will probably find that in most cases a properly specified veranda will give you an additional 4 months to an average year when you can sit comfortably outside.. That is worth investing in we believe and gives a massive boost to your overall health and well being.

INSTALLATION

It does pay to have your glass veranda professionally installed. Not only are there some logistic challenges getting all the various components together at once, including the glass, which is notoriously tricky to transport, but there are many challenges during the construction and critical points in the process to get right, or risk longer term issues arising.

We have over 17 years experience with all types of aluminium structures and also provide much larger commercial structures and have the knowledge and experience to ensure you have the right specifications and installation provided for total peace of mind.
Most systems of an average size can be installed in a day or 2, depending on the ground and preparation of the ground or floor used, along with the final specification too.

It is a serious investment and we know they can last for many, many years if specified and installed correctly and then cleaned and maintained too. We have systems in place from 16 years ago, all performing fine and looking great,, so we know they last at least that period of time!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is a Veranda?

A glass or aluminium veranda refers to a structure which provides an extension of living space outside but attached to your home or business.

The aluminium structure is attached to the wall and has a glass roof within a framework structure with minimal framework for maximum light and vision. A glass and aluminium veranda can be fully open on all side or partially and fully enclosed with various elements to protect from sun, wind and rain.

Does an aluminium and glass veranda need planning permission?

Most will not need any planning permission but some might.

If it is extra large, taller than 3m, is at the front of your house or covers more than 50% of the land around your house you may need to speak to you local authority for approval.
If your house is listed or in a conservation area this might also need permission but not necessarily planning permission in the same sense.

If in doubt ask, but most aluminium verandas are small enough not to worry about and are also temporary structures anyway with minimal impact on your house and grounds.

Will I get hot underneath a glass veranda?

For any aluminium veranda structure with open front and sides you wont generally get any hotter underneath than if it wasn’t there at all. You define an outdoor area when installing a glass veranda and this will mean far more time spent in that area.

On hot days, with minimal or no breeze at all, you might think it is hotter but the standard glass is actually providing some UV protection and you have full air flow on all sides. If you face South, or are not keen on the direct sun, then consider a veranda with a built in retractable fabric blind to act like an awning does, protecting you from light and heat when it is too hot.