PROJECT STORY - WOKINGHAM
From empty garden space to the heart of the home
A family wanted a bright room they could use all year round — somewhere to eat, relax and let the kids play. Here's how a Hup! garden room came together, from bare base to finished space.
LOCATION
Wokingham, Berkshire
SYSTEM
Ultraframe Hup! tiled roof
DOORS
Smart Visofold aluminium bifolds
BUILD TIME-FRAME
2-3 weeks
A real room, not a sunny spot for half the year
Why Hup!
A Hup! system gave them a solid, insulated tiled roof — warm in winter, cool in summer — without losing the light. Glazed roof panels keep the space bright, while the insulated walls and roof mean it behaves like any other room in the house, all year round.
What we did
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Laid the base and built the brick plinth from the ground up
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Installed the Hup! wall system and tiled roof with glazed panels
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Fitted white aluminium bifold doors opening onto the patio, plus uPVC tilt & turn windows
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Rendored exterior finish
HOW IT CAME TOGETHER
Base to finish
We think it's worth showing the work, not just the glossy end result. Here's the build in progress.
STAGE 01
Groundwork & base
Unlike a traditional extension, a Hup! build doesn't need deep foundations, diggers or a team of bricklayers. The base goes in using insulated panels over concrete pads, which means far less digging, far less mess, and no skip-loads of spoil clogging up the garden.
STAGE 02
The Walls
This is where Hup! is genuinely clever. Instead of brick-and-block, the walls are built from insulated panels — slim, but seriously warm. A standard brick cavity wall would need to be around 350mm thick to hit the latest Building Regs target. A Hup! wall hits a better figure at just 215mm, which means thinner walls and more usable floor space inside.
The panels go up fast and are made watertight in a fraction of the time a bricklayer would take.
STAGE 03
The Roof
The roof is an Ultraroof tiled system — the bit that turns this from a conservatory you can only use half the year into a proper room. It's a solid, fully insulated warm roof with real lightweight tiles, so it holds heat in winter and stays cool in summer.
The clever part is the full-length glass panels set into it: you get the insulation of a solid roof and the natural light of a glass one, rather than having to choose. It's also strong enough to span wide openings — which is exactly what let us fit those big bifold doors without a clunky support bar across the middle.
STAGE 04
The Frames
Once the shell was watertight, we fitted the white aluminium bifolds and uPVC tilt & turn full height windows. The exterior render & internalplastering was finished & our electrician installed lights and sockets, so it was handed back as a room that's ready to be decorated and lived in — warm, bright, and built to last.
