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A Guide to Vinyl Skylight Windows
The Advantages of Vinyl Skylight Windows and the
Numerous Skylight Types to Choose From
By Mark J. Donovan
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Vinyl skylight windows are commonly found in today’s
modern home. Skylight windows are typically installed in rooms with
vaulted ceilings or where privacy and sunlight are both desired. For
example, they are often found in family rooms or great rooms with
cathedral ceilings. They are also found in bathrooms where both
privacy and natural light are desired. Vinyl skylight windows are also
used where other windows can’t be installed, such as in a finished
attic living space.
Vinyl window skylights also help to make a room feel larger and keep
the home warmer during the cold winter months and cooler during the
hot summer months. |
Vinyl skylight windows are ideal for cooler climate regions because of
the fact that they can provide added heat to a home during the cold winter
months. Using vinyl for the actual window framing around the glass helps to
produce better insulated skylight windows, which helps cut down on home
energy costs.
There are a number of types of vinyl skylight windows to choose from. The
original skylight window was just a fixed pane of glass. You can still buy
skylight windows like this, however most homeowners today elect to go with
more sophisticated skylights. For example, today you can purchase vented
skylights that have the ability to open and let cool air into the home, or
hot air out of it. Vented skylights come with screens and shades so that
insects can be kept at bay from entering the home, and the room darkened if
so desired.
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Today’s skylight windows come with double pane glass with
argon gas filled between them to provide a higher insulating R-value.
Moreover, today’s modern skylight glass has special coatings or films
applied to them to help block certain spectral sun wavelengths, e.g.
ultraviolet light waves, from entering the home. Ultraviolet light heats the
home and can fade carpeting, wood flooring and furniture fabric.
There are also higher end vinyl skylight windows with built in shades
that automatically adjust to the sun’s rays or by a timer, or by a remote
control switch. |
If you plan to install vented skylight windows in cathedral ceilings it’s
a wise idea to buy ones that can be remotely controlled to open and close
them. Otherwise you may never find yourself opening them unless you keep a
ladder in the room.
Skylight windows come in all shapes and sizes. The standard skylight
window type is rectangular or square. However, there are smaller ones, and
even circular ones, for creating spot lighting in a room. For example
there are sun tunnel and cubbyhole sized vinyl skylight windows that are
ideal for accenting lighting a small area of a room. They’re also ideal
for small rooms such as bathrooms or reading rooms, or even in entranceway
foyers.
So when planning your natural lighting scheme for you new room addition or
home consider installing vinyl skylight windows. Besides providing a
natural beauty to your home or home addition, they’re a green building
product that will save on annual home heating and lighting energy costs.
For more information on
Installing a New Window, see the
Installing a New Window Ebook from
HomeAdditionPlus.com. The Installing a New Window Ebook provides easy to
understand, step-by-step instructions, on how to remove an old window and
install a new one. Pictures are included for every key step in the process.
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