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Can a Rooflight Add Value to Your Home?

Rooflights and skylights can add a great deal of value to your home. However, they are not just a consideration for a home that you want to stay in. They’re also a consideration for when you’re trying to sell your home. There are many things that potential buyers will be looking for in a home. Among them are a space where they feel comfortable, a place that they feel they can make their own and a space that can grow with them. A flat roof skylight can help you achieve all these needs and so much more.

When you are selling your home, first impressions count. Potential buyers may visit several houses and those that stick in their minds are the ones that stood out from the moment they walked through the door. It is important to make sure that your home stands out for the right reasons. One way to achieve this is to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere using a rooflight or roof window. Light, warmth, and air remain three key elements in creating a positive first impression. Potential buyers walking into a dark space with little airflow are unlikely to form a good first impression.

It can be difficult to show a house at its best under artificial light and keeping all your windows open isn’t always practical. However, the addition of a fixed skylight can add much-needed light. Carefully positioned to spread the light through as much of the house as possible it can make the space seem bigger and airier, even without a source of fresh air.

Seven ways a skylight can add value to your home

Increased natural light

A skylight installation will increase the natural light in your room by creating an opening in the roof that allows natural light in throughout the day. This will provide your room with better overall light coverage, allowing natural light to reach all corners of the room.

Skylights can be installed in almost any room of the house, and can be made to fit the full length of your room if required, providing your room with the maximum amount of directional natural light. We recommend finding the area of your house that receives the most sunlight throughout the day for the optimal skylight installation.

Better design

Skylights are available in a huge range of designs and sizes, and provide your room with a distinct feel that cannot be achieved with regular windows. Plus, the addition of light openings can improve the perceived size of your room tremendously – a guaranteed positive for potential buyers.

Increased insulation

Rooflights have increased thermal efficiency when compared to most standard windows thanks to argon gas which is used to fill the void between window panes. Because argon gas is non-reactive, with a thermal conductivity rating of around 30% less than air, this prevents heat from being transferred through the window and escaping to the outside.

Reduce your energy bills

Owing to the increased insulation provided by rooflights, you will naturally enjoy a reduction in your overall energy bills over the lifetime of your product. Rooflights will help efficiently heat your room when in contact with direct sunlight, and also retain heat for longer periods when compared with regular windows.

Read our blog ‘Are Rooflights Energy Efficient?’.

Increased privacy

Rooflights are also a great means of improving the privacy of your room, particularly on new build properties, as they can be implemented in lieu of regular vertical windows. This means that pedestrians and passers-by cannot see into your property unless they are directly above it.

Improved ventilation

We stock a range of opening rooflights, providing quick ventilation to your room for temperature control and emergency venting.

Improve the longevity of your home

As well as feeling comfortable when they first walk through the door, most buyers will be considering whether the house is suitable over the longer term. They may walk through envisaging what changes they could make to ensure the house makes sound financial sense in the coming years. By adding a fixed glass skylight, you can show them one of many ways that they can make use of the space now and in the future. They may see other ways that light and air can be added to other spaces in the home, how they can open up new areas, or extend the building with further rooflights. If you have a flat roof, but little outside space, adding a fixed skylight for a flat roof could open a world of possibilities of how the roof space could be used. Planting small ideas like this can help potential buyers overlook other shortcomings in the home.

A rooflight illuminating a room in a house

Health benefits

There are also a number of health benefits associated with increasing the light levels within your room or property, as covered in our blog ‘Benefits of Natural Light in the Workplace’. We have also provided a short list of these benefits below, as they may be a factor that influences the price of your home:

Increased serotonin

Exposure to sunlight causes the brain to release more serotonin, which is a hormone associated with increasing happiness, productivity, and alertness. Conversely, less exposure to sunlight can cause the brain to release increased levels of melatonin, a hormone that is responsible for helping you sleep. In increased levels during waking hours, this hormone can have a detrimental effect on your mental wellbeing. 

Increasing the natural light levels in your room can aid in the production of serotonin.

Increased bone strength

Exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet radiation can aid the body in creating vitamin D. Vitamin D can play a large role in the development of healthy bones, according to a 2008 study available on PubMed.

Adding a rooflight to an extension

Extending an existing property upwards and outwards is often an ideal way of giving a growing family more space while improving the value of the home for any future sale. Whether building an extension or opening a loft space, flat roof skylights are essential to turning an uninhabitable space into a pleasant, habitable one.

If you have already spent a significant amount on extending your home, you will want the most affordable option in terms of glazing. For a flat roofed extension, this often translates into having a fixed glass skylight installed. This has all the benefits of opening the extension to natural daylight at a relatively affordable price. Additionally, the unit can be fitted with double or triple glazing, which helps maximise thermal efficiency. In other words, heat is captured from the sun and transmitted into the room below, but the flat skylight glazing prevents the heat emitted by your heating system from escaping outwards.

Glass flat roof skylights can also come with a range of other features to make your new extension both more energy efficient and welcoming. Self-cleaning glass can be installed, which ensures all the available sunlight enters the room; but special specification glass filters out the sun’s harmful UV rays.

Reap the rewards of rooflights with Toughened Glass Systems

Whether you are looking to make the right impression to sell your home or are looking to improve its value for the longer term, a skylight can help. However, it is important that the skylight is fit for purpose and made with safety and security in mind. At Toughened Glass Systems, we have the experience and expertise needed to ensure you have the right window for your needs every time. If you have any specific questions, then call the team on 020 3633 3224 – we will be happy to help.

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Testimonials
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Based on 210 reviews
Bob toploft
Bob toploft
2020-10-24
I am the owner of Top loft company ltd, after reviewing reviews from various companies I ordered 2 juliet balconies from tgs arrived within 3 weeks, comunications and help was brilliant. Thanks for all your help.
Jim H
Jim H
2020-10-23
Great service from the team. Easy to order, good buying guidance and clear install instructions for my builder. Rooflights look absolutely great! The team at TGS couldn't have been more helpful in organising a smaller delivery vehicle to help with restricted access. Highly recommend TGS.
Jack Smith
Jack Smith
2020-10-16
Great service from a very knowledgeable company. Thanks team Toughened Glass Systems.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
2020-10-16
I was spending a lot of money on several rooflights so I wanted to make sure I got it right and I did. The professionalism, expertise and the quality of the roof lanterns really set Toughened Glass Systems apart.
Tyrone Eldridge
Tyrone Eldridge
2020-10-16
There are no complaints about the experience with TGS. The entire process of ordering, supplying and delivering was flawless. I would really recommend you order your flat roof sky lanterns from these guys.
Robert Childers
Robert Childers
2020-10-16
Best place for rooflights, they supply many different types and options. Thanks for all your support Toughened Glass Systems!
John Smith
John Smith
2020-10-16
The glass balustrade gives us an amazing view onto the lake outside. So happy we ended up going for the frameless glass balcony from Toughened Glass Systems instead of one with posts
Louise Newsome
Louise Newsome
2020-10-15
My job is to design the interiors for a lot of houses and a lot of times the hardest part was when the client wanted some really inexpensive rooflights that should look like some contemporary ones as well. That until I found Toughened Glass Systems and started working with them more and more. They have a lot of this kind of stuff at a very decent price, a price for anyone I can say. If you’re looking for cheap skylights for flat roofs or any types of roof lights, they probably have something for you.
Krystina Taylor
Krystina Taylor
2020-10-15
Always kept us up to date with our order even when delayed by a few days. Great service from the start and good quality glass balcony delivered.