Why Skylights?

Why Skylights? Skylights offer many benefits for your living space. Daylight is proven to increase wellness and quality of living, and substantially raise comfort and visibility in your home. There have been many studies that support the use of daylight to promote health and well being in the home.

Venting skylights open to promote the flow of air through the home. This creates a chimney effect to draw warm air up through the skylight, which provides a cooling effect and fresh air in your home.

They are effective in adding architectural drama and a strong visual impact to your home, making spaces appear larger and more aesthetically pleasing. In many homes, skylights can offer privacy where wall windows do not.

A skylight provides double the daylight penetration into a room as compared to a vertical wall window, and provides necessary privacy. As a result of the installation of skylights, the need for artificial lighting is greatly diminished. This translates to savings in electricity costs.

For residential applications where energy efficiency is of utmost importance, we install only energy efficient flat glass Low-E and argon filled thermal pane VELUX skylights. With a thermal pane skylight, heat gain and loss is greatly reduced as compared to a plastic dome skylight. Replacing a plastic skylight with an energy efficient glass unit results in energy savings up to hundreds of dollars per year.