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SEPTEMBER 06 - IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS FOR YORKSHIRE TENANTS



Tenants in the North West of Leeds have a brighter future, through a caring approach to re-roofing their homes.

Leeds North West Homes scheduled the 50 flats in Weston Lane, Otley, built in the 1960s, for re-roofing, to bring them up to modern day standards. The blocks of flats are built with a dormer which had over the years rotted, cracked and without insulation caused tenants to complain of cold and lack of light within their homes.

Leeds North West Homes and the Property Services Section of the Neighbourhoods and Housing Department was responsible for managing the job, and came up with an alternative solution- to redesign the roofline to remove the dormers, and increase natural daylight by switching from vertical windows to Glidevale Sunscoop tubular rooflights. “The tenants think the new design is fabulous,” comments Allan Naylor, Project Manager. “They have more natural daylight in their homes, without the draughts and cold.”

Some 200 x 350mm diameter Glidevale Sunscoops have been fitted on the project by contractor T Cummings & Co Leeds, depending on the internal layout of each upper storey flat ( 3 x Sunscoops in flats with a bathroom, kitchen and hall under the south-facing pitch, 2 Sunscoops in flats with a bathroom and hall under the pitch). The dormers have been removed and new battens and tiles fitted. Internally, the ceilings have been lowered, the loft space insulated at joist level, and the Sunscoops fitted to throw natural daylight from the roof down the silvered reflective tube in the roofspace into the room below.

Each Sunscoop at the Otley project includes an integral electric low-energy bulb fitting behind the ceiling mounted diffuser to ensure adequate light at night.

Rooflights shed up to three times more daylight into a building than comparable-sized vertical glazing. Glidevale’s Sunscoop tubular rooflight provides at least 95% reflectivity, in a softer, more natural light than similar products. The integral light and sun deflector ensures as much light as possible is caught and reflected down the tube, even when the sun is low in the sky or obscured by cloud.

Sunscoop is the first tubular rooflight of its kind to achieve a U value of 2.2W/m2K, in line with Building Regulation requirements, and is AA fire rated enabling unrestricted use in the roof.

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