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Skylights and canopies.

Glazed openings in the roof, and glass or polycarbonate canopies over doors, porches and car parks.

A glass canopy on a red steel frame over a brick building’s entrance.

01What it is

Skylights and canopies, explained.

A skylight is a glazed opening in a roof that brings daylight to the middle of a building. A canopy is a roof of glass or polycarbonate on an aluminium or steel frame, over a door, a porch or a car.

Where it suits

  • Stairwells and dark corridors
  • Front doors and porches
  • Car porches and walkways
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Drawing Skylights and canopies, elevation. Not to scale.

02Choices you will make

What goes on the drawing.

Each of these is decided before anything is cut. If you are not sure, say so in the quote list and it will be talked through.

Glazing
  • Laminated glass
  • Polycarbonate
Frame
  • Aluminium
  • Steel with aluminium glazing bars
Tint
  • Clear
  • Tinted
  • Opal

03For a price

What to send us.

  1. Width and projection of the canopy, or the size of the roof opening
  2. What the wall or roof is built of
  3. Which way rain should run off

The quote list

Pricing skylights and canopies? Send every size in one message.

List each opening, its width and height, how it should open, the glass and the finish. The quote list turns it into one tidy WhatsApp message, and it adds up the glass area as you go.

W: smallest of 3H: smallest of 3
Measure the width at the top, middle and bottom, and the height at both sides and the centre. Keep the smallest of each.
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