Skylight Glasses in buildings – Advantages and Disadvantages

Skylights give a structural beauty to your home or your office. Nothing can replace the obvious beauty that natural sunlight can provide to your place. This modern lighting effect can bring glorious effect to your haven, but controlling the heat and light can become a problem in the long term.

There are of course, advantages and disadvantages of keeping skylights in your buildings – let’s take a look at them.

Advantages of Skylights:

·         Natural Light and Beauty:

Skylights are indeed good investment if you are a homeowner who is environmentally and architecturally aware of residents.

They provide large amounts of light and warmth without much cost because they do not require electricity and for a major part of the day provide sunlight.

A Skylight’s beauty and architectural design can increase the value of your place.

·         Spectacular Vision:

Skylight provides with a natural vision of scenery outside which often comes in the form of clouds or lightning or a clear starry night.

Depending on the glass, the view can be expansive or limited in view.

The major advantage is that you get the joy of views outside within your own place.

Disadvantages of Skylights:

A major disadvantage can be the influence they have on power use. During hot summers, you might need to adjust the air conditioners’ thermostat to compensate the rising the temperature.

During winter, ice covered on the skylights can make your room frigid and so you might want to change the settings of the heater too.

Cleaning and Dusting Skylights can be a major problem. You might need a really big ladder to take you up till the pane.

Since most glasses don’t have coverings or window treatments, dust accumulates quickly.

So, choose a skylight that gives the best effect to you and your place. Skylights add to the beauty of your commercial or residential building.