Lorimer - the standard by which others are judged

The word ‘orangerie’ dates from the 17th century when special rooms were built onto grand houses for growing fruit such as oranges. Today an orangerie is a more enclosed style of conservatory with a partial solid ceiling, while still retaining a glazed roof.

The epitome of modern living, an orangerie allows you to effortlessly incorporate contemporary design features such as speakers and down-lighters.

The Lorimer range has been developed to be uncompromising in every aspect of its performance, while maintaining a unique and attractive appearance. It is the market leader in terms of design, functionality, security and thermal performance.

Contoured shape

The windows and doors fitted in our orangeries are from our Lorimer range and have been designed to replicate the appearance of timber products, with slim frames and a contoured shape. All transoms and mullions are mechanically jointed for a more attractive finish.

Double glazed units

Filled with Argon gas, our units are fitted with two panes of toughened glass, one of which is low emissivity.

Both panes are held together with a warm edge spacer bar for increased thermal performance.

Co-extruded gasket

Lorimer glazing gaskets are co-extruded to the frame, which is a permanent bond. This means that they will not shrink or move and will remain perfectly in place around the edge of the glass to add to the slim-line finish.

Energy efficient & ‘A’ rated as standard

All Lorimer orangeries exceed recommended Scottish Building Regulations and are fitted with ‘A’ energyrated windows and doors.

Our orangerie windows are most often ‘casement’ style. The window is designed to offer optimum weather performance to suit the Scottish climate and also to provide the classic slim-line appearance of Lorimer.

Strength & security

To ensure they are also extremely secure, every casement window is fitted with Glass Bond™ technology to seal the glass unit into the PVCu frame, which has British Board of Agrément accreditation. They also have a multi-point espagnolette lock with two mushroom heads and two flat-knife shootbolts. Finally, arrow headed ‘security’ hinges are fitted to the opposite side of the main locking points along with anti-jemmy cleats. These provide extra security support for the hinging mechanism.

Lorimer orangerie windows are fully reinforced with aluminium and steel to provide strong structural strength. All the fittings for our hinges, locks and handles are fixed into the steel or aluminium reinforcement.

Our unique multi-chamber profile design adds even more strength to the Lorimer frame as well as providing better thermal performance.

Lead free & virgin PVCu

Lorimer PVCu is lead free, using organic stabilisers and is also 100% virgin PVCu which guarantees our white windows will stay white.