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Skylights are any form of clear acrylic or glass stretched across a portion of a building’s roof to allow light in.  They come in all sorts of varieties, but are fundamentally a way of lighting and heating a room for free.  The light shines through from the sky, lighting up your room far more effectively than a window, and Skylights heat a room using the greenhouse effect of letting heat in, but then letting it out again very slowly so that this heat collects in the room.

The installation of a skylight is important, as there are many factors to consider.  The place where the Skylights sit on the roof is very important.  There are parts of your roof that receive more light and heat than others.  It is the installation crew’s job to calculate where this area is to make sure that you get the full benefit.

This is obviously important for getting the most out of your Skylights, but is also an important factor on where the light will be directed.  It is not only the installing companies job to find the most optimum places on the roof, but they must also position it so that the room receives more light for a larger part of the day.  It is all well and good if your skylight receives the most light from the sun but not so much if it is aimed at a sidewall.  Ideally the beam wants to be directed as close to the centre of the room as possible, so that when the sun moves, so the beam does across the room instead of across the wall.  With some installation companies, you will just get poorly lit walls and not much else.

Installation should also be done professionally.  You should really check the company’s you intend to use customer reviews and find out if any of your friends or co-workers have used the company before.  The installation should be done by experts.  The roofing tiles remaining should be professionally re-installed; the structure should be sturdy, durable and as close to airtight as possible. There should be as few (ideally none) places to pool water as possible.

The next part of installation is where heat will collect.  If you are installing your Skylights in the attic then one side of the ceiling will be lower than the other.  If your skylight is installed at the very top, then when the heat rises, it will have an escape route via the skylight.  The same goes for if the skylight has a well.  A well is a hole that goes up into the roof finishing with the pane of glass/acrylic.  Ideally there should be a pane of acrylic or glass at the same level as the ceiling to so that no hot air gets trapped in the well and escapes.  There should also be another pane at the very top, so that rain water does not get trapped in the Skylights well.