06 · OUR WORK
Rooflights
Sealed glass units for flat roofs and side returns, made to the opening that was actually built.
- Toughened + laminated
- Solar control
- Made to the opening
The brief
A rooflight is glass set into a flat roof to bring daylight straight down into the room below, in place of a plastic dome.
The unit has to be made to the opening that was actually built rather than the one on the drawing, sit on the upstand that is already there, and keep the room underneath usable in July.
What we made
Sealed double-glazed units made to the measured opening, on a slim frame.
The photographs are mostly taken on the roof rather than styled from indoors, which is the honest version of this job. One shows a glazed roof carried on steel beams over a side return: the same glass in a bigger frame.
The glass spec
A sealed unit with a toughened outer pane and a laminated inner. Toughened outside because it takes the weather and whatever lands on it; laminated inside because it is over your head.
Solar control and a soft-coat low-emissivity layer on the cavity face are the two things that decide whether the room below is comfortable in summer. The upstand and its fall are agreed before the unit is ordered, because a sealed unit cannot be trimmed on site.
- Unit
- Sealed double-glazed
- Outer pane
- Toughened
- Inner pane
- Laminated, it is over your head
- Coatings
- Solar control and soft-coat low-e
- Sizing
- Made to the surveyed opening, on the existing upstand
A sealed unit cannot be trimmed on site, so the opening and its upstand are surveyed before anything is ordered.
7 photographs
Our own photographs of finished work. We have not named the customers or the addresses, the jobs were not photographed for publication, and we are not going to invent captions for them.
Parts used around work like this
Real stock from our own catalogue, at your price.
How a project like this runs with us
1. Survey
Send drawings or rough quantities. Where the openings need it, we measure on site so every panel is made to what is built, not to what was drawn.
2. Drawings
Every glass item gets a drawing with its sizes, edgework, holes and hardware, for you or your architect to sign off before anything is cut.
3. Programme
We agree batches and dates against your build programme, so glass arrives when the floor is ready for it, not before.
4. Deliveries to site
Own vans, own drivers. Deliveries are booked to your programme and to the site contact you name.
5. Fitting through our network
If you want it fitted, we offer the job to vetted independent fitters who cover your postcode and fit that kind of glass.
Planning something like this? Talk to us
- Call us020 7751 0011Fulham: Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00Call now
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