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Skylight, a window, dome, or opening in a roof or ceiling to admit natural light; Sunroof, an opening in an automobile roof which allows light and/or fresh air to enter the vehicle; Roof window, an outward opening window that is incorporated as part of the design of a roof; registered trademark in USA for automotive sunroof and architectural ...
In some cases, a cricket can be used to transition from one roof area to another. On low-slope and flat roofs with parapet walls, crickets are commonly used to divert water to the drainage, against or perpendicular to the main roof slope. The pitch of a cricket is sometimes the same as the rest of the roof, but not always. For Steep-slope roofs ...
A retractable skylight rolls (on a set of tracks) off the frame, so that the interior of the facility is entirely open to the outdoors, i.e., not impeded by a hinged skylight. The terms retractable skylight and retractable roof are often used interchangeably, though skylight implies a degree of transparency. Tubular daylight device
A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...
The Department of Labor says the Louisiana roofing company could have prevented the death of its 22-year-old employee. 22-year-old fell through skylight after roofing company ignored deadly risks ...
Other solar shingles, such as the Tesla Solar Roof, are much more difficult and expensive to install, requiring the removal and replacement of the existing roof. Solar shingled roofs tend to have a deep, dark, purplish-blue or black color, and therefore look similar to other roofs in most situations.
Remote skylights are composed chiefly of a solar collection dish, a "heliotube" and a distribution dish. [1] The collection and distribution dishes are both parabolic reflectors . The collection dish is connected to a heliostat , a mechanism which tracks the transit of the sun across the sky, so as to maximize the intensity of light falling ...
A single-pitched roof can be a smaller addition to an existing roof, known in some areas as a lean-to roof, and a "outshot", "catslide", or skillion roof in others. Some Saltbox homes were expanded by the addition of such a roof, often at a shallower pitch than the original roof. Single-pitched roofs are used beneath clerestory windows.