You install conservatories, orangeries and glass roofs that improve people’s homes. But good workmanship does not automatically put your business in front of nearby customers.
When someone searches for “conservatory installer near me”, “orangery installation” or “replacement conservatory roof”, your Google Business Profile can decide whether they call you or a competitor.
A half-completed profile leaves important questions unanswered:
- Do you install new conservatories?
- Do you cover the customer’s town?
- Can you replace a leaking roof?
- Do you handle orangeries and glass roofs?
- Are your reviews and project photos genuine?
- Can the customer request a quote quickly?
This guide explains how to optimise your Google Business Profile for conservatory installation work in the UK.
1. Choose the most accurate primary category
Your primary category tells Google what your business mainly does.
Choose the closest available category for your main work. Do not select a broad category such as “home improvement” simply because it sounds useful.
Search the category list carefully for options relating to:
- Conservatory installation
- Window installation
- Glass and glazing
- Building or home improvement
- Roofing, where roof replacement is a major part of your work
Google’s category options can change. Choose the category that best describes the work you want more of now.
You can add secondary categories for genuine services you provide. For example, you may also offer window installation, replacement doors, glazing repairs or roofing work.
Do not add categories because you hope they will bring extra traffic. If the category does not match the work you carry out, it can confuse customers and weaken the accuracy of your profile.
2. Complete every important profile field
A complete profile gives Google and customers more useful information.
Check each of these areas:
- Business name
- Address or service area
- Phone number
- Website
- Opening hours
- Holiday hours
- Business description
- Services
- Photos
- Appointment or enquiry links
- Messaging, if you can respond promptly
Use the same business name, address and phone number across your website, directories and trade listings.
If you work from a home office or travel to customers, do not display an address where customers cannot visit you. Set up your profile as a service-area business instead.
If you have a showroom, list the real customer-facing address and add the surrounding areas you serve.
Your business description should explain what you do in plain English. Mention your main services, genuine coverage area and relevant credentials.
For example:
We design and install conservatories, orangeries, glass roofs and replacement panels for homeowners across [your area]. We also provide conservatory refurbishment, insulation upgrades and repairs. Contact us for a site survey and written quotation.
Do not fill the description with repeated phrases such as “best conservatory installer near me”. Keyword stuffing makes the profile harder to read and does not replace a properly completed listing.
3. Build a proper services list
The Services section is one of the most useful parts of a profile for a specialist installer.
List the work customers actually search for. Depending on your business, this may include:
- New conservatory installation
- Orangery design and installation
- Victorian conservatories
- Edwardian conservatories
- Lean-to conservatories
- Gable-end conservatories
- Aluminium conservatories
- uPVC conservatories
- Glass roof installation
- Conservatory roof replacement
- Solid or insulated roof conversion
- Replacement roof panels
- Conservatory repairs
- Leaking conservatory roof repairs
- Conservatory insulation improvements
- Conservatory refurbishment
- Replacement windows and doors
Give each service a useful description. Explain what is included, which properties it suits and where you work.
Avoid making claims that your installation will eliminate heat loss or cut energy bills by a fixed amount. The result depends on the existing structure, glass, ventilation, heating, orientation and installation quality.
Use accurate language such as:
- “Designed to improve comfort”
- “Can help reduce draughts when correctly specified”
- “Suitable options depend on the existing frame and structure”
- “We assess the roof and supporting structure before recommending a replacement”
4. Explain planning and Building Regulations carefully
Customers often ask whether a conservatory or replacement roof needs approval. Your Google Business Profile Q&A, website and posts should answer this without overpromising.
Planning permission and Building Regulations are not the same thing.
A conservatory may usually be exempt from Building Regulations when it is:
- At ground level
- Single storey
- Less than 30 square metres
- Separated from the house by suitable external-quality doors, walls or windows
- Served by independent heating controls
A new structural opening between the house and conservatory normally needs Building Regulations approval.
A solid or largely opaque replacement roof may also remove the conservatory’s exemption because the structure no longer meets the usual glazing conditions. The roof, supports, insulation and other work may then need to comply with Building Regulations.
Planning permission can depend on factors such as:
- The size and height of the extension
- Its position on the property
- Previous extensions
- Listed-building status
- Conservation-area restrictions
- Article 4 directions
- Local planning rules
Do not write “planning permission is never needed”. Tell customers to check with their local planning authority or Building Control where the project is uncertain.
Link your advice to the official Planning Portal conservatory guidance, rather than presenting your profile as a substitute for professional planning advice.
Be accurate about FENSA and Certass
A new conservatory installation is not the same as replacing windows or doors in an existing home.
FENSA states that conservatories and porches are outside the scope of its competent-person scheme. FENSA generally covers replacement windows, doors, roof windows and rooflights.
If Building Regulations approval is needed for a conservatory project, the customer may need to deal with the local authority or an approved building control body.
Do not advertise a “FENSA certificate for every conservatory” if that is not what the work qualifies for. Explain which certificates or approvals apply to the specific installation.
5. Upload project photos that prove what you do
A customer wants to see your work before making contact.
Upload real photos of:
- Completed conservatories
- Orangeries
- Glass roofs
- Roof replacements
- Replacement panels
- Interior finishes
- Doors and frames
- Guttering and roof details
- Before-and-after refurbishments
- Your team on site
- Vehicles, showroom and signage
Take photos in daylight. Keep the area tidy and show enough of the property for the project to make sense.
Add new images after completed jobs instead of uploading the same gallery once and leaving it untouched for years.
Use accurate filenames on your website, such as:
orangery-installation-leicester.jpg
Do not use stock images of conservatories. A real photo from your own work is more useful to a homeowner comparing installers.
6. Ask for detailed, genuine reviews
Reviews help customers judge whether you are reliable, tidy and easy to deal with.
Ask for a review after the handover, once the customer has had time to use the finished space. Send the direct Google review link by text or email within a day or two.
Do not offer rewards for positive reviews. Do not write reviews yourself. Do not ask customers to use a fixed script.
You can politely ask them to mention what the project involved, such as:
- A new orangery
- A replacement glass roof
- A conservatory refurbishment
- Roof panel replacement
- The town where the work took place
- Communication, tidiness or project management
Reply to every review. Thank happy customers and respond calmly to criticism. Never argue about private project details in public.
7. Use Posts and Q&A to answer buying questions
Google Business Profile Posts give you a simple way to show that your business is active.
Post about:
- Recently completed conservatories
- Roof replacement projects
- Orangery design ideas
- How a site survey works
- Common causes of leaks
- Glass roof maintenance
- Replacement panels
- Winter draught checks
- What customers should ask before accepting a quote
Add a clear next step, such as “Call for a survey” or “Request a written quotation”.
Use Q&A for questions customers ask before buying:
- How long does installation take?
- Can you replace an existing conservatory roof?
- Do you install orangeries?
- Can you work on older frames?
- Do I need planning permission?
- Will Building Regulations apply?
- Do you cover my postcode?
- Do you provide a written quotation?
- Are you FENSA or Certass registered for this type of work?
Answer carefully and update old answers when your process changes.
8. Make response times part of your profile
Customers looking for home improvements often contact three or four installers at once.
If you enable Google messaging, answer it promptly. If you cannot monitor messages during installation work, turn the feature off or make your phone and enquiry route clearer.
Your website should also make contact easy on mobile. Show:
- A tap-to-call phone number
- Your service area
- The main services you provide
- What information you need for a quote
- Typical next steps
- A short enquiry form
An instant quote widget can help capture visitors who are not ready to call. With VU1’s quote builder, visitors can select a service, see a starting estimate and leave their contact details before they leave your site.
The estimate is not a final quotation. You still assess the property, structure, access and specification before confirming the price.
9. Avoid these common mistakes
Conservatory installers often lose local enquiries because of simple profile problems:
- Using an inaccurate primary category
- Listing an address where customers cannot visit
- Hiding key services in a vague description
- Adding towns you do not serve
- Using the same project photo repeatedly
- Buying or fabricating reviews
- Ignoring negative reviews
- Making fixed energy-saving claims
- Saying every project is exempt from approval
- Claiming FENSA covers new conservatory installations
- Sending visitors to a slow or confusing website
- Using a long enquiry form on mobile
- Failing to update opening hours and service areas
Fix the basics before spending money on more advertising.
10. Check the website behind your profile
Your Google Business Profile and website need to support each other.
Create clear pages for the services you want to grow. Explain the work in everyday terms and include the towns or areas you genuinely cover.
Check that your website has:
- A clear page title for each service
- One useful main heading
- Accurate contact details
- Fast-loading project photos
- Mobile-friendly buttons
- Internal links between related services
- Clear planning and Building Regulations boundaries
- A simple quote route
- Secure HTTPS
- Structured information that matches the visible page
Google’s local results are mainly influenced by relevance, distance and prominence. You cannot pay Google for a better local ranking. You can, however, make your business easier to understand, easier to verify and easier for customers to contact.
VU1 checks these practical areas in a free audit. It reviews 15 local, on-page and technical signals and explains the findings in plain English.
Enter your website URL, email address and target town or service area. Get the report, usually within a few minutes and under 15 seconds to run, with no signup required. Start the free audit.
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Start with the profile customers see today
Open your Google Business Profile and check your primary category, service area, services, photos, reviews, Q&A and enquiry route.
Then enter your website URL, email address and target town into the free 15-signal audit. Get a plain-English report showing what is weakening your local visibility and what to fix next.