How Rooflights Can Increase Your Home’s Energy Efficiency

Rooflights are a great, but often underappreciated way to enhance a home's energy efficiency. By placing rooflights on strategically chosen parts of the roof you can bring light into spaces below that previously depended on artificial light for illumination. But that's not the only way rooflights improve the energy efficiency of a home and in this brief guide, we'll look at many more.

The Many Ways Rooflights Can Increase Your Home’s Energy Efficiency

Rooflights are more than just stunning architectural features. They also provide real-world practical benefits such as improving the energy efficiency of a home. Here's how they do that:

By reducing the need for artificial light:

During the winter months standard windows just aren't enough. Rooflights bring light into dark interiors reducing the need to run lights all day.

By reducing the need to run the heating system:

 All that warm light flooding into your home will reduce the need to keep the furnace running all day long.

 By improving a home's ventilation:

If you install rooflights that open you can open them in the warm weather months to produce outstanding ventilation and reduce the need for air conditioning.

By making your home drier and more hygienic:

 Okay, this isn't directly related to energy efficiency but the improved ventilation you'll enjoy will enable your home to dry out. And a dry home will leave nowhere for mould and mildew to hide.

By stabilising the indoor environment:

Being able to open and close rooflights at will is going to allow you to create a more stable interior environment which further reduces the need for heating and air conditioning.

By minimising heat transfer:

Today's best rooflights are heavily insulated and feature double and triple-glazing. These features reduce heat transfer year-round adding to the more stable environment.

Enabling you to earn a better EPC score:

All the energy-efficiency related enhancements produced by rooflights will likely enable you to reduce your home's carbon footprint and earn a better Energy Performance Certificate score.

Get in Touch With the Experts at Rooflights Roof Lanterns

Rooflights produce a variety of benefits both practical and aesthetic. Perhaps none as important as their ability to improve the energy efficiency of a home. If you would like to learn more about the eco-friendly aspects of rooflights, or you would like to discuss which of our rooflights would be best for your home, give Rooflights Roof Lanterns a call today on 020 8087 2004.

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