How to Plan the Perfect Rooflight Layout for Your Home

If you've decided to add rooflights to your home, congratulations. You're in for a treat. You'll also enjoy a multitude of benefits resulting from your new rooflights. But before you can enjoy those benefits you need to determine exactly where to place the new rooflights to optimise returns. In this post, the experts at Rooflights Roof Lanterns explain how to plan the perfect rooflight layout for your home.

How to Plan the Perfect Rooflight Layout for Your Home: A Brief Guide

If you want to be sure you enjoy all the benefits they have to offer you'll need to make sure you place your new rooflights in the right positions. Here's how you do that:

Plan for the amount of light you want to let in

One of the primary benefits of rooflights is their ability to flood previously dark spaces with natural light all day long. But to thoroughly enjoy this benefit you'll need to carefully consider the layout of your rooflights. For instance, try to place them in a way that follows the sun across the sky.

Choose a layout that creates a balance between direct and indirect sunlight

If you have direct sunlight coming through your rooflights all day long your interior is going to get pretty hot and stay that way. A better idea is to choose a layout that allows for some direct light penetration and some indirect light penetration.

Consider each room's functionality

In a dining room or kitchen, you may want to place a large rooflight directly over the dining table or the kitchen island. If you're transforming a previously forgotten loft into usable space you'll probably want to arrange the rooflights on the angled part of the roof, not the overhead part. For bathrooms place small rooflights with frosted glass in discrete locations.

Place opening rooflights where they can do the most good

Rooflights that open are a great way to enhance ventilation throughout your entire home, but only if those rooflights are placed carefully. That means placing at least 1 rooflight at or near the highest point of the roof, that way it will pull warm air upward from all over the house.

Contact Rooflights Roof Lanterns

Rooflights will change the way you experience your home. But if you want to maximise their benefits you will be smart about where you place them. To learn more contact Rooflights Roof Lanterns by calling 020 8087 2004.

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