CONSERVATORY ROOF SPECIFICATION
- Manufacturer: Synseal Global 600
- Load Testing: By Synseal
- Colour: Choice of colour - White, Rosewood or Light Oak. Designed to match frame profile and colour.
- Materials: White powder coated aluminium. Foiled for woodgrain finishes. Cresting, finials and guttering are not folied
- Glazed With: 35mm opal heatguard polycarbonate. Seven skin. With U value of 1.2 Optional 24mm solar control, self cleaning, toughened glass sealed units.
- Includes: All decorative cresting, finials and rain water goods.
- Fixing: Lead flashed to property wall
- Tie Bars: in accordance with manfacturer Synseal recommendations.
- About Global 600
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About global 600
light into the building below. And as with all Synseal's conservatory roofs, global600 is fixed from the inside. Conservatory installers don't want to climb on half built roofs - so it's easier and quicker too. A custom-built wall plate has been designed for ease of installation. The wall-plate is offered up to the wall along a guideline. For added strength the fixings pass through a channel and securely into the brickwork. The polycarbonate is dropped into place and a single nut locks into place either end from the inside. The pitch can go as low as 2.5 degrees and water cannot track back with the deep drip end closure.
global 600 is the low pitch roof system specifically designed for the UK market.
Unlike other systems, global600 has been specifically designed for the UK market. Other systems are based on a metric system for ease of calculation with 500mm intervals. But trying to match up doors and windows underneath is difficult. No-one would put in a pair of one meter wide French doors. But that is what matches up with the glazing bars on a standard system.
global600 is based on the imperial system, with glazing bars two feet apart (600mm) so a set of standard 1,200mm French doors align perfectly. Synseal chose 600mm as much of the UK housing stock is based in multiples of 2 feet, and gives an overall feeling of harmony with existing doors and windows.
As well as making the alignment of doors and windows easier having the glazing bars further apart allows more
