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Exploring the Ideal Areas for Skylights in Your Home

Natural light is a powerful design element that can transform any space, making it feel more inviting, spacious, and vibrant. When it comes to introducing natural light into your home, skylights offer a unique and versatile solution. These elegant windows in the roof not only brighten interior spaces but also add a touch of architectural interest to your home. There are many different areas of your home that are perfect candidates for skylights, enhancing your overall living experience.

Adding Skylights to Your Commercial Property

When it comes to commercial properties, every decision regarding renovations or enhancements must be carefully considered to ensure maximum return on investment. From improving employee productivity to enhancing customer satisfaction, the choices made can significantly impact the overall success of the business. One often underestimated yet highly effective way to elevate the ambiance and functionality of commercial spaces is by incorporating skylights. These are the benefits of adding skylights to your commercial property and why it's a smart investment worth considering!

How Skylights Lift Spirits During England's Gloomy Weather

Living in England, you're no stranger to rainy days. While the pitter-patter of raindrops against your window may create a cozy ambiance indoors, prolonged gloomy weather can take its toll on your mood. However, there's a simple yet effective solution to combat the dreariness: skylights. These overhead windows not only bring in natural light but also have a remarkable ability to uplift spirits even on the rainiest of days.

Product Spotlight: Introducing Titan Edge Air

Do you ever find yourself craving more natural light in your home or workspace? Perhaps you wish to breathe new life into a dimly lit room or brighten up a gloomy corner. Skylights offer a perfect solution, infusing spaces with natural light and a sense of openness. Among the myriad options available in the market, one product stands out for its innovative design and functionality: the Titan Edge Air skylight with an electric opening vent.

A Bright Beginning to a New Year: Upgrade Your Home with a Skylight

As the new year unfolds, many of us embark on a journey of self-improvement through resolutions that encompass various aspects of our lives. This year, why not consider a unique resolution that not only enhances your living space but also contributes to your well-being? Explore the idea of making a New Year's resolution to upgrade your home with a skylight as we shed light on the myriad benefits that come with this transformative addition.

Can I Customise My Skylights?

Natural light has a transformative power, not only in our homes but also in commercial spaces. Skylights play a pivotal role in harnessing this ethereal light, and the Titan Edge stands as a beacon in the realm of flat roof skylights. At Express Skylights, we help you explore the significance of custom sizes for flat roof skylights, with a special focus on the innovative Titan Edge.

The Ultimate Gift to Yourself: A Skylight For the Home

'Tis the season for giving, and while we often focus on presents for others, have you considered gifting yourself something truly special this year? Imagine waking up to the gentle glow of natural light every morning, or spending cozy evenings under the stars without leaving the comfort of your home. This holiday season, treat yourself to the ultimate gift – a skylight home upgrade. Investing in a skylight is not just a practical choice but also a meaningful way to enhance your daily life.

Brighten Your Home for the Holidays: A Skylight Upgrade

As the holiday season approaches, there's no better time to give your home a festive and functional upgrade. One unique and transformative addition to consider is a skylight. Not only does it bring natural light into your living space, but it can also create a warm and inviting atmosphere just in time for Christmas and the holidays. Explore the benefits of adding a skylight to your home and how it can enhance your holiday celebrations.

Why Choose a Vented Skylight?

Skylights are renowned for their ability to bring the beauty of the outdoors indoors, filling your living spaces with glorious natural light. While non-vented skylights are a popular choice, there's a strong case to be made for opting for a vented skylight instead. Read on as we provide compelling reasons why choosing a vented skylight can be a game-changer for your home.

Custom Skylights Tailored to Perfection

When it comes to enhancing the beauty and functionality of your home, few additions can match the transformative power of custom skylights. Express Skylights is your go-to partner for crafting and installing skylights that are perfectly tailored to your unique needs and preferences. Express Skylights can create and install custom skylights that not only bring natural light into your home but also add a touch of elegance and luxury to your living spaces.

Shining a Light on Sustainability: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint with Skylights

In an era where environmental consciousness is paramount, finding ways to reduce our carbon footprint has become a collective responsibility. We're constantly searching for eco-friendly solutions that not only benefit the planet but also enhance our quality of life. One such solution is the incorporation of skylights into our homes. Beyond the aesthetic appeal and natural illumination, they offer, skylights can play a significant role in reducing your carbon footprint.

The Benefits of Adding a Skylight to Your Home

It is only natural to want to enhance your home to make it a more inviting and enjoyable space. One way to achieve this is by adding a skylight.

Say hello to the revolutionary S1 glass lantern.

Every now and again a product comes along that changes the landscape. One which seamlessly marries together traditional features and contemporary settings, helping to enhance your home like the S1 lantern roof. In this article, we’d like to introduce you to the Uk’s most secure lantern the innovative S1 glass lantern. The S1 eliminates the security weaknesses of traditional lantern designs. Features such as anti-tamper screws, enclosed anti-tamper glazing, and the patent-pending glass lock.

Maximise the impact of your extension with bifold doors

When you choose to enhance your home with an extension, you aren’t just gaining extra space. You’re opening yourself up to a whole new lifestyle. Thriving dinner parties, cosy movie nights and lazy lunches can all become a reality. So what’s the secret to making the most of your seamless new space? The addition of bi-folding doors.

Keep warm this winter: The ultimate guide to triple glazing

From saving money on those pesky energy bills to keeping your family cosy, there’s plenty of reasons to invest in quality triple glazing this winter. But with all the technical jargon and shifty salesman around how can you be sure you’re investing in the perfect product?

How to choose between bi-folding and sliding doors

When you invest in premium quality solutions for your home, you want them to be perfect. And for things to be perfect, you need to spend some time absorbing different ideas. Perhaps you head to a few trade shows or binge episodes of Grand Designs? However you find inspiration it’s easy to become overwhelmed as well as excited.

Harness the power of feng shui with skylights

You may be surprised, but adding a skylight into your home could be the first step to adding more serenity into your life. From letting in more natural light to helping you get more fresh air, your skylight can help bring calm into your hectic life.

Skylight showdown: flat skylight or roof lantern?

With summer finally in full swing, you may be looking for ways to maximise light in your home while keeping rooms refreshingly cool. A skylight is a fantastic way to let light into a room, improve ventilation and increase the value of your property. But which style is right for your home?

Choosing the best skylight for your extension

Offering complete creative control (and lower costs) thousands of people each year choose to manage their own renovations. From selecting a builder to choosing the finer details, embarking on a self-managed home project is the star of an exciting adventure. But with so many product options out there, how can you avoid feeling overwhelmed? That’s where we come in for skylights.

Turn your house into a home with a skylight

While a few potted plants, some cosy throws and a lick of paint are a great quick fix, they aren’t always enough to create a warm and welcoming vibe. What can we do to make our house feel like a home? The answer’s easy - invest in a luxurious skylight.

How to maintain your rooflight in three easy steps

When a feature elevates the aesthetic of your home to such high standards, it’s only natural that you want to keep it in tip-top condition. While rooflights can be prone to dirt, pollution and rainwater, taking care of yours doesn’t have to be a chore. Here’s how to look after your rooflight to keep it looking as good as new, all year round.

The correct pitch for a flat rooflight

Your flat rooflight should enhance the look of your home - not cause problems to your property. That’s why it’s important to pitch your skylight properly when it’s installed. Pitch it incorrectly and you’ll experience pooling water and stained glass, pitch it correctly and you’ll enjoy glorious views and natural light all year round. Here’s how to get it right, first time.

Should you add a vent to your lantern roof?

A lantern roof with an opening vent is your secret weapon to welcoming fresh air and natural light in, while keeping stale air and unwanted heat out. In this article, we’ll help you decide if this type of skylight is right for your home.

Every room can benefit from the magic of skylights

Few home features can offer the wow-factor of a skylight. Pulling you out of the gloom and into the light, a skylight can help to improve air quality, maximise natural light and offer gorgeous views from above. From the bathroom to the attic, here’s how a skylight can give a new lease of life to every room.

How an access rooflight with terrace can add value to your home

Every home should be beautiful and functional, with a little extra wow-factor thrown in for good measure. A roof terrace with access rooflight can help you achieve all this – and increase the value of your property too.

Skylights leak or condensation: How to diagnose your glass roof

To get the best out of your skylights day after day, it’s important to maintain them. While regular cleaning is often the answer, it’s when water begins to drip from your glass roof that further action may be needed.

New roof? Should I replace my skylight too?

If the time has come to invest in a new roof, you may already be dreading the questions you need to ask yourself. What type of tile do you need? Do you want a different angle of slope? What colour of guttering will match? With so many things to remember, it’s easy to overlook space for your old skylight in the upgraded structure. In this article, we’re exploring whether a new roof means it’s time for a new skylight and the factors you need to consider.

How many windows do I need for my room?

If you’re considering a home renovation this winter, your mind may already be on a new colour scheme and how it’s going to feel to finally sit on your perfect sofa. If you’re caught up in dreams of the ideal space, remember one important factor that many people overlook – natural light.

In this article, we’re looking at how many windows you need to bring warmth and brightness into a room and some clever solutions to make the most of it throughout the day.

Say hello to the revolutionary Korniche glass lantern

In this article, we’d like to introduce you to the innovative Korniche glass lantern.

Five ways to maximise light in your extension

A home extension naturally gives your home more space, more air and a better flow from room to room. Instead of settling for basic windows, why not give your new space three times more natural light* and all the benefits that come with this?

A skylight is the ultimate addition to any extension, can be your secret weapon to brightening your spaces and improving ventilation throughout your home. Here’s five ways a new skylight can help you to maximise light and help your extension look fantastic:

Spend this Christmas under a roof lantern skylight

From time with family and friends to a well-deserved rest, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year in so many ways. As we get into the season and you start to dream about dressing your rooms, now is also the perfect time to look at some permanent changes that will give your home that festive magic all year round…

A roof lantern skylight allows natural light to cascade down and offers you a sky full of stars on those clear winter nights. Here’s why investing in a roof lantern skylight now will bring a bit of extra sparkle to your Christmas.

Discover your perfect conservatory style skylight

Conservatories are universally loved throughout the UK. From huge extra rooms where lavish Christmas parties take place to the perfect light-filled reading snug, they come in many shapes and sizes.

To add the perfect finishing touch to your conservatory, big or small, it’s worth considering a skylight. Skylights allow natural light to cascade down on your space, giving you a room that’s brighter, lighter and more airy, even on the dullest of days.

Solar glass: why you should upgrade

When you add skylights to your home, you can instantly feel the benefits of natural light. Skylights help to illuminate those darker corners while bringing warmth to cold spaces. But in the summer, this benefit can become a bit of burden if you find that your rooms are getting too hot, too quickly. This is where solar glass can help. In this article, we’ll explain how the glass works and some of the benefits of using it instead of traditional glass.

Rooflight security: key things you need to know

Adding a new rooflight to your home is a brilliant way to bring light and air into your home, while creating the illusion of more space in smaller rooms. And with so many designs, colours, finishes and glass types to choose from, you may feel spoilt for choice.

What are all the options available for flat roof?

If you’re thinking about adding a skylight to your property, there are a number of considerations you need to bare in mind. From the style of the frame to the positioning in your room, the right skylight can bring all the benefits of natural light into your home. But what if your property has a flat roof?

Do you need double or triple glazing for your skylight?

If you’re looking to add a new skylight to your property, there’s a number of important questions you need to consider – such as what style of skylight will best suit your home? What colour of finish will match your roofing tiles? But one area that often causes confusion with our customers is whether you need double or triple glazing for your home.

How to design a bedroom with a skylight.

Your principal bedroom (or master bedroom) should be your personal slice of luxury. Where the rest of your home is designed around family life, your principal bedroom should give you a relaxing space where you can unwind after a long day.

Managing planning permission for skylight.

Your home is your castle – and bringing natural light into every space is a perfect way to show off its unique characteristics. From your kitchen to your bathroom, a skylight will let natural light flood into every corner, filling your home with the health benefit that comes with it.