If you look up at an older skylight in a school, church hall, plaza, warehouse or mid-century house and see a grid of fine steel...
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Lighting A Skylight Shaft: Fixtures For Dark Autumn Evenings
Skylight shaft lighting solves a problem most people only notice after their first autumn with a new skylight. All day the shaft...
Skylights For Garden Suites And Laneway Houses
A garden suite is a small home, and small homes live or die by their daylight. With a compact footprint, walls close to fences,...
Artificial Skylights vs Sun Tunnels: Lighting A Windowless Room
An artificial skylight is a ceiling light fixture designed to look like a window to the sky: a backlit panel, sometimes printed...
Skylights In Bungalows: Shafts, Ceiling Joists And Layout
Post-war bungalows are some of the best candidates for skylights in the GTA. Their single storey means every room sits directly...
Venting Skylights In Bathrooms: Do You Still Need An Exhaust Fan?
A venting skylight bathroom is one of the nicest rooms in a house: daylight on the tile, a patch of sky above the tub, and a...
Skylights And Rooftop Solar Panels: Planning Shared Roof Space
More Ontario homeowners are putting solar arrays on their roofs, and many of those roofs already have skylights or soon will....
Commercial Skylight Maintenance: Inspections, Seals And Safety
Commercial skylight maintenance tends to slip down the list until a dome cracks, a ceiling tile stains or a contractor reports...
Skylight Frame Materials: Wood, Vinyl, Aluminum And Polyurethane
Skylight frame materials get less attention than glass when people shop for a new unit, yet the frame is what you look at from...
Adding Skylights To Older Homes: Plaster, Rafters And Hidden Surprises
Adding skylights in older homes is one of the best ways to brighten a narrow century house, a dark upstairs hallway or a...
Clerestory Windows vs Skylights: Which Brings Better Light
Clerestory windows and skylights solve the same problem from two directions. Both put glass high above eye level so daylight...
Skylight Storm Damage And Home Insurance Claims
Autumn windstorms bring down a lot of branches in Ontario, and a skylight is one of the more vulnerable spots on a roof when a...












