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Aluminium Bifold Doors
Designed to complement any style of property our range of bespoke aluminium bi-folding doors will completely transform the look of your home.
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Glass Extensions in Cheshire
Frameless glass box extensions, glass links and steel windows for Cheshire homes — designed, made in our own workshop and installed by our own teams. We work regularly across Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Knutsford, Macclesfield and Chester, and we are close enough to be on site the same week.
Structural Glazing for Cheshire Homes
Cheshire is one of the strongest markets in the country for high-end glazing, and it shows in the quality of what gets built here. Large detached houses in the Golden Triangle, Victorian villas around Knutsford and Macclesfield, farmhouse and barn conversions out towards Mobberley and Great Budworth, and period property inside the Chester walls — all of it suits structural glass, and all of it demands work that is detailed properly.
We are based in Liverpool, roughly forty minutes from Wilmslow. That is close enough to survey properly, measure the opening ourselves rather than working from someone else's drawing, and come back quickly if anything needs adjusting. Most of the firms bidding for Cheshire glazing work are running the job from the South East.
Everything is fabricated in our own workshop, so the people who make your glazing are the people who fit it.
Why Cheshire homeowners and architects work with us
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Completed projects in Wilmslow, Marple and across the Cheshire border
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Over 45 years designing and fitting bespoke structural glazing
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Experienced with Green Belt and conservation area constraints
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Our own workshop and our own installation teams — no subcontractors
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Glass from Guardian, Pilkington and Saint-Gobain
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Full design service, from first sketch to signed-off installation
What We Design and Install
Every project is made to measure. These are the systems we are asked for most often across Cheshire:
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Panoramic Sliding Doors
The minimal frame utilised in this range has a mere 20mm interlock between sashes, allowing virtually uncluttered views from within the property.
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Cortizo Sliding Doors - Cor Vison -
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Glass Box Extensions
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Internal Steel Screens
Steel screens & doors can create a contemporary or authentic historic style. Your steel windows can be as bespoke as your property.
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Aluminium Windows
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Our Work In and Around Cheshire
In Wilmslow we designed and installed a modern frameless glass box extension, opening the rear of the property into the garden with minimal sightlines and a structural glass roof. At Marple, on the Cheshire and Stockport border, we built a bespoke structural glass entrance. Just over the county line in the Peak District we completed a full glass room extension, and in Derbyshire a glulam-framed glass box — both the kind of rural, planning-sensitive sites Cheshire throws up constantly.
The common thread is that none of these were catalogue jobs. A glass box on a 1930s house in Alderley Edge, a glazed link between a farmhouse and an outbuilding near Knutsford, and a steel screen inside a Chester townhouse are three completely different structural problems. We detail each one from scratch.
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Steel Look Alike Doors
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Project Overview — Custom Cortizo Doors & Balustrade, Lancashire
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Lower Hud Farm
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Glass Link & Office
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Glulam Frame Glass Box Extension
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Glass Link
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Areas We Cover Across Cheshire
We work throughout the county, including:
- Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Mobberley and Poynton
- Knutsford, Macclesfield, Bollington and Congleton
- Chester, Tarporley, Frodsham and Northwich
- Crewe, Nantwich, Sandbach and Winsford
- Warrington, Lymm and Ellesmere Port
Green Belt, Conservation Areas and Planning in Cheshire
Cheshire has a planning quirk that catches people out: a great deal of the most desirable parts of the county sit in the Green Belt. Much of the land around Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Mobberley and Lymm is Green Belt land, and there the key test is whether an extension amounts to a disproportionate addition over and above the size of the original building. Two houses on the same road can get very different answers depending on what has already been added since the property was first built.
This is one reason a glass extension is often the right answer rather than the risky one. A lightweight, largely transparent structure reads as a smaller visual addition than the equivalent volume in brick, and it can be designed to be clearly subordinate to the original house — which is precisely the language planning officers use.
There are also conservation areas at Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Prestbury, Bollington and Great Budworth, and Chester has one of the largest concentrations of listed buildings in the North West. Inside these, permitted development rights are usually restricted and full planning permission will normally be required.
Which council you deal with depends on where you are. Cheshire East covers Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Congleton and Crewe. Cheshire West and Chester covers Chester, Northwich, Winsford, Frodsham and Ellesmere Port. Warrington and Halton are separate unitary authorities again, each with their own local policies. We will tell you at survey stage whether we think a design will get through.
What Affects the Cost of a Glass Extension?
Every project is priced individually, but the things that move the number most are consistent:
- Pane size. Cost per square metre rises sharply once panels exceed what two people can lift, because you are then into crane hire and access planning.
- Frameless versus framed. Structural silicone jointing and minimal sightlines carry a premium over a framed system.
- Glass specification. Solar control coatings, triple glazing, acoustic laminates and self-cleaning glass all add cost — and are usually worth it.
- Structure below the glass. Steels, foundations and groundworks are frequently a bigger share of the budget than the glazing itself.
- Site access. Rural Cheshire plots often have generous access, which helps. Narrow village lanes and tight courtyards do not.
Send us your drawings, or even a photo of the back of the house, and we will give you a realistic budget range before you spend anything.
Glass Extensions in Cheshire — Common Questions
Often, yes. In the Green Belt the main test is whether the extension is a disproportionate addition over and above the size of the original building, so what matters is the cumulative volume added since the house was first built. A lightweight glass structure reads as a smaller visual addition than the same volume in brick, which frequently helps. We will assess it honestly at survey stage.
Start Your Cheshire Glazing Project
Whether it is a glass box extension in Wilmslow, a glazed link on a farmhouse near Knutsford, or steel windows for a period property in Chester, we would like to see it. Call us on 0151 523 3131, or send over your plans and we will come back with honest advice and a realistic budget.