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HomeReplaceSkylights

Proudly Serving O'Fallon, MO and surrounding areas.

Skylights in O'Fallon, MO

Skylights can provide your home with daylighting and ventilation. When properly selected and installed, energy-efficient skylights can help minimize your heating, cooling, and lighting costs. The physical size of a skylight greatly affects the illumination level and temperature of the space below. As a rule of thumb, the skylight size should never be more than 5% of the floor area in rooms with many windows and no more than 15% of the rooms total floor area for spaces with few windows.

You should also consider a skylight s position if you want to maximize daylighting and/or passive solar heating potential. Skylights on roofs that face north provide fairly constant but cool illumination. Those on east-facing roofs provide maximum light and solar heat gain in the morning. West-facing skylights provide afternoon sunlight and heat gain. South-facing skylights provide the greatest potential for desirable winter passive solar heat gain than any other location, but often allow unwanted heat gain in the summer. You can prevent unwanted solar heat gain by installing the skylight in the shade of deciduous (leaf-shedding) trees or adding a movable window covering on the inside or outside of the skylight. Some units have special glazing that help control solar heat gain.

Skylights are located on the roof, so they can result in unwanted summertime solar heat gain and wintertime heat loss. Manufacturers use various glazing technologies to reduce these impacts, including heat-absorbing tints, insulated glazing, and low-emissivity (low-e) coatings. Skylights are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. The most common shapes include rectangular, circular, oval, diamond, triangular, multi-sided, and tubular.

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Skylights from The Glass Guru are designed to add beauty, function and value to your home. Our estimators and installers are skylight experts. No one knows skylights in O'Fallon, MO like The Glass Guru.