Roof Lanterns for your Extension or Home

Date: 03/02/20

Roof lanterns are an ideal way to bring natural light into your extension and the rest of your home. By making sure that your new extension has plenty of natural light, this will also make any adjoining rooms lighter and brighter. Bringing natural light into your extension or home is a great benefit for the following reasons:

1.    Natural light will make your room brighter. A bright room is much more pleasant to spend time in.
2.    Natural light will make your extension or home feel bigger. This is because a dark space feels smaller, so by adding roof lanterns and bringing in more natural light, it will feel larger.
3.    There is lots of research to suggest that natural light improves our mood and makes us feel happier. This means that by including roof lanterns in your extension, you will create a room that makes you feel good.

There are many options to choose from if you are considering adding roof lanterns to your home or extension. They are a popular choice for those wanting a modern, sleek, look and the Ultrasky aluminium product from Ultraframe is an ideal choice.

If you want to find out about the main things to consider, read on.

Roof lantern appearance

For many people, when choosing roof lanterns for their home extension, how they will look is one of the first things to consider. 

A simple way to describe how a roof lantern looks is that they are similar to a small conservatory roof. IE they are pitched up to a central ridge with bars leading off the ridge and panes of glass in between.

Aluminium roof lanterns have a slimline appearance and so are ideal for a modern home extension.  

The Ultrasky product from Ultraframe features very slim bars. This means that your extension will be flooded with natural light. Not only are the bars on the Ultrasky lantern slim, but there are also 25% fewer of them than on other systems. This means that there is more glass and fewer bars on the Ultrasky roof lantern than on any other system.  

Another thing to consider about how an Ultrasky aluminium roof lantern looks is the neat, slimline radius end, as opposed to a much larger radius end on a PVCu product. If you don’t know what the radius end on a roof lantern is, picture the point where the angled glazing bars meet the ridge (the highest point of the roof). 

Roof lantern strength 

The Ultrasky roof lantern owes its modern good looks to its immense strength - it has the UK’s strongest ridge. Because of this, fewer bars are needed to support the glazing panels. This results in a system which has fewer bars and more glass.

The strength of the Ultrasky roof lantern not only ensures it looks beautifully modern, but it also means that very large lanterns can be produced. 4m x 5.85m is the maximum size possible – now that is one very large lantern.

Roof lantern colour

There are several things to think about in terms of colour when choosing a roof lantern. These are internal/external bar colour, and glass colour.

1.    Internal/external bar colour. There are many colour choices available for roof lanterns. In fact, with the Ultrasky lantern from Ultraframe, you can choose to have your lantern in ANY colour! You can also have different colours on the inside and outside faces. This means that you can make sure your roof lantern matches both the inside and the outside of your home perfectly.
2.    Glass colour. With the Ultrasky lantern from Ultraframe, you can choose from four different colours of high-performance roof lantern glass. These colours are clear, blue, bronze and aqua.

Roof lantern energy efficiency 

You need to make sure that you choose a roof lantern that is very energy efficient. This will ensure that your extension or home are warm, whatever the weather. 
Ultrasky roof lanterns offer excellent energy efficiency. In fact, it is the warmest lantern on the UK market.

How is this high level of energy efficiency achieved on the Ultrasky roof lantern? At the core of the Ultrasky system is a PVCu skeleton which features thermal breaks both inside and out. The system also features a thermally insulated eaves rail and fully insulated aluminium under cladding. These features are not found on other roof lanterns. Clipped onto the PVCu skeleton are aluminium covers, known as cappings. This combination means that the Ultrasky aluminium roof lantern offers the best of both worlds: the thermal performance of PVCu and with the beautiful, modern good looks of aluminium.

Roof lanterns – a summary

We hope that reading this guide has answered some of the main questions you may have about roof lanterns and how they can be used in your home extension project. Hopefully, it has also demonstrated that the Ultrasky product is the most advanced on the market in terms of looks, options and energy efficiency.

If you are adding a roof lantern to your home or extension, then you cannot choose a better product than the Ultrasky system. It is class-leading in terms of its strength, thermal performance, and modern good looks. 

Once you have decided on the best option for your home or extension, you can simply buy it online here on the Ultrasky website and have it delivered to your home within just 6 working days.

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