The Impact of Rooflights on Heating and Cooling Costs

Rooflights are a great way to make your home brighter and create a nice bump in its curb appeal. But that's not all they do. Rooflights and skylights also help make homes (and businesses) more energy efficient by reducing the dependence on artificial heating and cooling. In this post, the team at Skylights Rooflight examine the impact of rooflights on heating and cooling costs.

How Rooflights Can Reduce Heating and Cooling Costs

When they think of rooflights and skylights most people think of how they bring natural light into areas of a home or business that were formerly dark and dingy and how they expand decor possibilities. But there is another benefit rooflights provide that is gaining increasing attention these days: their ability to reduce heating and cooling costs. Here's how they do that.

By providing passive solar heat

Winter in the UK is not only dark, it's cold. To stay warm homeowners run their heating system day and night. Rooflights can end that practice by allowing warm sunlight to enter the home all day long. This increases the amount of passive heat in the house and can reduce the monthly heating bill.

By creating outstanding ventilation

Just as they'll run the heater all day and night in the winter, so too homeowners will run the air conditioner all day and night in the summer. But if they install rooflights that open they won't have to. Placing a rooflight that opens on a high point of the roof means that, when open, it will create an updraft that ventilates the entire house, cooling it down and reducing the need for air conditioning. The result? Lower energy bills.

They also reduce the need for artificial light

When places that used to be dark become flooded with natural light you can turn off the electric lights for a change. This is particularly important in winter when some homeowners would also run electric lights all day long due to the lack of natural light entering their home. Installing rooflights can result in even more savings on the energy bill.

Get in Touch with Skylights Rooflight

If you are looking for a way to reduce your heating and cooling costs you owe it to yourself to explore the possibility of installing rooflights. For all the reasons listed above and more, they can produce significant energy savings and lower monthly bills. Call us to learn more on 020 3633 2196.