Rooflights and Skylights – What’s the Difference?
The term rooflight or skylight is generally understood to mean a window in the roof that allows daylight to penetrate, affording extra light to the space beneath. Roof windows (as they’re known) and skylights actually differ quite a bit. A roof window (often mistakenly termed a skylight) is an outward opening window that is incorporated into the design of a roof and tends to be larger than a skylight, allowing a much wider view of the sky overhead. A skylight, on the other hand, is a light transmitting window that forms all or a portion of a roof to allow more light into the building.
[…]Roofing Work News Roundup – August, 2017
Here at D-marc we’re in the business of making work at height, namely roofing work, safer with our innovative rooftop barrier solutions. As such, we keep a close eye on the news for stories about roof work and working at height in general so that we can provide our readers with useful and relevant information that will keep them up to date with what’s going on in our industry. Once a month, we’ll publish a roundup of the news that affects our sector in one easy place so that readers can get a quick overview of the most important happenings over the past month. If you have anything to add
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