14th May 2022
With uncertainty around jobs and the housing market, many of us are thinking about improving the places in which we live, rather than looking to move home. Rather than make the kid…
14th Apr 2022
When you install rooflights in your home, you maximise the amount of natural light flowing into the room. As the long nights of autumn and winter creep around the corner, we need t…
14th Mar 2022
The 7th of March 2022 marks the beginning of ‘Women in Construction’ week in the UK. As we celebrate women in construction and look ahead to encourage more women into the indus…
10th Feb 2022
The benefits of installing rooflights or roof windows into your project are obvious: they can make dramatic improvements in key areas, including increasing the amount of natural da…
07th Feb 2022
What makes a building energy efficient? When choosing products for a building project, it’s easy to concentrate on each item individually - costs, performance, availability - an…
21st Jan 2022
Homeowners looking to build their own house, or substantially renovate an existing property, might assume that meeting the building regulations applicable to their location is the …
07th Jan 2022
Traditional features in modern housing Take a look at any housing site where multiple dwellings are being constructed and it’s likely that a majority of the properties include f…
04th Jan 2022
How is a rooflight’s thermal performance declared? These days, most people understand the benefits of having a glazing unit that is more than just single glazed. Double glazin…
29th Nov 2019
In August 2018, we launched our first Trade Account Initiative, rewarding our customers for their continued loyalty. Not only did rooflights.com give away a host of power tools thr…
07th May 2018
The minimum pitch for rooflights is 3 degrees. This is enough to ensure that water will drain off the surface of the glass and avoid ponding. Glass inherently has a degree of flex …
04th May 2018
Thermal breaks are manufactured out of material that is very poor at conducting heat, so that when introduced into a metal frame it forms a physical barrier to stop heat being cond…
04th May 2018
Cold bridging is when condensation forms on the inside of the rooflight framework. This occurs when the rooflight is situated over a room with high humidity, such as a kitchen or b…