ROOF SKYLIGHTS

Roof Skylights

Fixed Flat Skylight Mounted on a Roof

Pyramid Skylight Mounted on a Roof

Dome Skylight Mounted on a Roof

Tubular Skylight Mounted on a Roof
A skylight is a special type of window built into the roof of a house in order to allow natural light to come into the house directly. A skylight may be installed for artistic purposes, or as part of a general heating strategy. There are different types of skylight, with different designs, materials, and added components.

The Different Skylights are:

Ventilating skylights: Are opened to allow air to pass through. These skylights are ideal for bathrooms and kitchens, where they help to relieve excess moisture and keep the low of air steady. Ventilating skylights may be controlled by a remote, by a hand crank, or by an automatic sensor which tracks inside temperature.

Fixed skylights: Any type of skylight which doesn't open. This type of skylight is intended solely to allow light to pass into the house.

Flat skylights: Probably the most common, consisting of a square or rectangular piece of flat glass or acrylic, which may be fixed or ventilating. A round skylight emerges from the roof as a half-sphere bubble. A polygon skylight peaks up out of the roof with a number of glass or acrylic polygons-these skylights are more expensive than simpler models, but are also very artistic impressive.

Pyramid skylights: Is a simple four-triangle pyramid which juts out of the roof.

Dome skylights: Similar to a flat skylight, except that the glass rounds up past the surface of the roof.

Tubular skylights: Use renewable energy natural light to light interiors, such as hallways, small rooms where a traditional skylights wouldn't easily fit. They're easier to install than typical skylights and, from the home's interior, resemble light fixtures.

Tubular skylights have a light collector usually consisting of an acrylic lens set in a metal frame. Most have a reflective sun scoop in the rooftop assembly that directs sunlight into a metal or plastic tube which has a very reflective interior coating. The reflective tube guides the sunlight to a diffuser lens, in the interior ceiling surface, that spreads light evenly throughout the room. The shape of the scoop generally allows light to reflect into the home regardless of the sun's angle in the sky.Some tubular skylights have integrated electrical lights so the fixture can provide light both day and night and some have integrated baffles to regulate the amount of incoming sunlight.