How a skylight can add value to my house?
Apart from enhancing the appearance of your home, adding a skylight will definitely add some value to it too. This is because skylights contribute to home’s energy efficiency, daylighting, and ventilation. This means skylights reduce the need for electric lights, ventilate and cool the interiors of the home during hot days, and capture and deliver free solar heat during cold days - minimising the home’s heating, cooling, and lighting costs- which homeowners and homebuyers really appreciate- especially now that heating, cooling, and lighting costs are increasingly high.
A home with an energy efficient skylight get to reduce its heating, cooling, and lighting costs while increasing the comfort of the inhabitants with its supply of natural daylight. More and more homebuyers have started to realise this and so have added skylights to their must-have features of homes when buying. If you can add one or two into your own home, it will definitely increase its resale value.
Skylights made a lot of difference when their installed.
Skylights when installed into your rooms, kitchen, and baths will make them look much larger and brighter. Of course, homes with interiors looking much larger and brighter are way more saleable than homes with interiors looking dark, dull, and small.
Choosing Your Skylight
When choosing a skylight, the trick is choosing the one with the proper design features for durability and energy efficiency. Don’t just purchase one that is on sale. Even if you get a pricey sky light, its cost will be covered by the savings you’ll get for reduced heating, cooling, and lighting costs.
Here are the three main classes of skylights. Understand all of them and see which one of them will suit your home’s requirements of energy efficiency, daylighting, and ventilation best: Fixed Skylight, Ventilating Skylight, and Tubular Skylight.
The fixed Skylight is a skylight that does not open. It can allow natural light to travel down into the interiors of the home. It can be installed to most houses, small and big houses.
The Ventilating is a skylight that does open and close. It can allow natural light to travel down into the interiors of the home. And since it opens, it can also allow fresh outside air to travel down the interiors of the home. Best installed to homes with not very high ceilings because it will be inconvenient to close it when the ceiling is very high and is out of reach.
The tubular skylight is a skylight designed for hallways and small rooms where a traditional fixed or ventilating skylight wouldn't easily fit.
The more energy efficient and more durable the skylight you will get for your home, the better, because it will allow the home to be more energy efficient too. That’s why you also need to understand the energy performance ratings of skylights so you can select your skylight based on the local climate and your home's design.
Remember, skylights are most wanted for two main reasons: their aesthetic benefits and energy saving benefits. If you can have these two in your skylight, you can tell your home buyers that when you finally put your home in the market for resale. Your buyers will see that your requested selling value is reasonable knowing they’ll be reaping the benefits of your installed skylight.