I’ve consistently wanted a home with skylights installed, for some reason, that sounds like the lap of luxury to me, and I cherish the idea of looking up into a beautiful green sky in the morning.
It would also be amazing on clear nights to kneel in bed and see the stars twinkling down on me from the comfort of my home! When I finally got to buy my own condo I made certain that it had this feature, separate from realizing there would be one drawback; the skylights are constantly fighting my air conditioning component and making my central cooling system labor overtime.
I simply hadn’t foreseen the opportunity of the direct sun causing a major shift in my indoor air temperature, but the beating sunshine abruptly changed the air quality on sunny afternoons like you wouldn’t believe. I found that it was so significant that my thermostat was kicking into gear more often, and the rest of the home was getting unreasonably chilly as a result of all the excess AC. I simply couldn’t find a gleeful medium between the sunshine and the Heating & Air Conditioning, and my energy bill was getting caught in the crossfire. Finally, I looked into zone controlled heating and cooling in order to regulate the hotter areas of the home separate from overpowering the lower level. It turned out to be fairly reasonable, considering how much I was contributing to my energy bills each month, and I arranged for the upgrade of an replaced thermostat and ventilation system as soon as possible. Ever since, I’ve been able to actually appreciate my skylights, separate from covered in sweat through my sheets or dreading the energy bills.