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Skylights


Skylights provide your home with natural sunlight while also providing additional warmth. A skylight that is properly installed, and energy efficient, can help reduce lighting, cooling, and heating costs. Three major factors: design, selection, and installation, should be considered when selecting the right skylight for your home.

Skylights should be selected based on the type that will work best and where in the home energy efficiency should be improved. Skylights have energy performance ratings that can be used with your home's climate and design.

The size and position of the skylight should also be considered. The size of the skylight affects the lighting and heat provided. In general, skylights should be about 10% of a room's total floor area. North facing skylights can be ideal as they provide constant, cool illumination.

Read the articles below to learn more about skylights and how they can improve your home's look and feel.

Articles

All About Skylights

Putting a skylight in your home use to mean a small patch of sunlight would make a daily crawl across the floor.  Now you have plenty of options when it comes to the variety of lighting you want in your home.

All About Tubular Skylights

Not to be confused with the exclamation of the famous Ninja Turtles, tubular skylights are narrow skylights meant to provide sunlight in an interior room.  The implications of this idea are delightfully pleasant.