Velux Skylights installed with shafts – a mini reno

Velux Skylights installed with shafts do so much more than add light

Velux skylights installed with shafts do so much more than add light... When you're thinking of bringing more light into your home why not let your imagination run wild? When adding a skylight, think of the end result as not just a skylight with a lightwell.  Why? Because installing a Velux skylight with a shaft can have as much impact on a room as a mini renovation but for a fraction of the price.

Velux Skylights installed with shafts create a spectacular outcome

With Velux Skylights, especially when installed in a group with a shaft, the outcome can be quite spectacular.

Take for instance a project we completed in Malvern recently. The entrance hall looked pretty amazing.  It had a beautiful tiled floor and a fabulous staircase up to the first level. A lightwell had been built years before but it was pretty basic and was finished with polycarbonate sheeting that cheapened the overall impact.

Velux Skylights installed with shafts replace polycarb sheets in this Malvern project

The Roofrite team came up with a plan to replace the polycarbonate sheets with a bank of six double glazed Velux skylights. The outcome would lend the space high drama. Above all, it would create a much more fitting finish to the beautiful entrance hall.

One of the marks of a good trade team is their ability to find solutions - not just at the outset but also when things don’t go according to plan. In the case of this project, once we got into the roof cavity, the planned shaft design and number of skylights had to be modified. We discovered a warren of ducting in the ceiling space.

Velux Skylights with shaft design and build are our specialty

Fortunately, the Roofrite team has a wealth of experience with shaft design and builds for skylight installations so were not at all phased by the problems thrown up by the ducting. We merely altered the design of the shaft and reduced the number of skylights from six to five and worked through the problems.

The outcome is no less spectacular than the original design as the pictures below show and you would never know there had been any modification to the original design.

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Velux Skylights installed with shaft pictorial essay

We’ve included below a pictorial essay so you can see how the project proceeded from initial quote to finished installation of five Velux skylights.