AIBU to think people following home trends such as glass lanterns regret this now

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Those who have done extensions in their kitchens etc that put glass lanterns and/or floor to ceiling glass walls without any openings. They must have been regretting these plus other things that warm homes unintentionally.

Solidarity, sister. I loathe all these cavernous box-shaped kitchen extensions with their bloody islands surrounded by high stools which do my back in, and their dazzling overhead windows which give me migraine, and their great walls of glass which bifold back to let in insects and poor lost birds and rainstorms and local foxes and next door's barbecue smoke and rap music, and which take the light away from what used to be exactly the sort of nicely proportioned dining room with French doors which I can never find on Rightmove now because of all these bloody extensions.
Just saying.

We’ve got a pitched glazed roof kitchen extension. We are saving up for air con and blinds (I have made temporary ones)! Once they’re in place or it’s not above 27 ish outside I will be happy again. Our architect and builder assured us heat wouldn’t be an issue… I do love watching the sky and it lets loads of light into what would otherwise be a very dark room.

Ours is a standard 3 bed semi - downstairs just the kitchen, that now has space for a table, living room, downstairs loo and tiny entrance bit. Just makes our house a bit more useable for a small family. Minus the heat!

All of this, plus they must be a bugger to keep smear free.

Interesting thread. We have a conservatory which is too cold in the winter and an oven in the summer and were hoping to convert it into an extension with a roof/skylights/insulation and bi-folds....is this not going to make it a more useable space?!

Not to mention the bird poo.

It seems like the UK is turning into Australia. It’s fine to build houses completely unsuited to the weather, just put in the air con more (and contribute more to climate change in most cases unless you have solar)
These need to have blinds on and a design so they can be opened at night to let the hot air out. All this stuff is fine if you design it properly

I feel really thick asking this but what is a ‘lantern’ in this context please?

A lantern is a skylight in a sort of pyramid shape rather than flat glass.

I’ll hold my hand up and admit to some level of regret. S facing, we did an extension with lots of glass. We have an awning which helps enormously but it’s still too hot in the kitchen when it’s 30 plus - didn’t foresee that temperature becoming a regular thing!

I don’t regret putting in the glass doors and skylights but with hindsight would have made the skylights smaller and also not had a “glass box” windowseat (should have put solid roof on it instead).

During our winters though, the glass is wonderful, I love having so much sun streaming in the house, and the warming effect means we rarely need the heating on. So I can’t really regret it that much.

Whether it’s home or clothing, billions of pounds are spent in ensuring people do follow fashions. Naive of you to think you aren’t impacted by it in some way.

This is absolutely not true. The building standards for domestic dwellings are quite clear on what you can and can’t do when it comes to sustainability, U values, thermal capabilities of homes etc. If you try to offset heat gain with aircon, you have to make a sustainable offset with heat pumps / solar panels or similar.

Self cleaning glazing exists for these things.

I’m in Australia and we do big glass walls. Double glazed, have the right sized eaves. Not an issue.

I agree this is true for new builds but does it apply to extensions?

I always worry that big bifold doors flung open give open access to the local rodent population....into your house.

Extensive use of glass in new high rise 'chic' flats or new school buildings ...but still need artificial lighting on and A/C really concern me for the future..no way to fling a window open and ventilate.

Don't get me started on the deaths associated with log burners ..poor air quality and particulates deaths etc. and their additional contribution to climate change 😔 People saying they've always wanted the awful harm causing things as if they are glamorous ...grim

Neighbours next door to late FIL's house in London spent a fortune taking down the downstairs wall and replacing it with huge glass panels for their kitchen. Then summer happened. She said it was just awful, the heat and regretted it.

We've bought a house with 3 log burners, 1 gas and one wood/coal fires. Even have a log burner in the large shed in the garden which is very very odd. Be like going back to the famous smog if we used all those! Will block and remove, all bar the normal fireplace.

Its scary conservative estimates are 2,500 deaths a year attributed to log burners... then additionally the particles are linked to diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Cost to NHS for thinking a flame looks pretty @ £54 million per annum.

Grew up in a house out in fields so not a naive townie...no gas connection, cesspool etc..still would not inflict that 'deadly glamour' on anyone else...there are non Victorian options non log burner solutions that don't affect health so badly

Your house sounds capacious ..bonus 🌿🍀

There is a house on our road (SE England, so v hot) that has a glass slice that runs from roof to bottom of the house to connect original house with extension. I do think that house must be insanely hot and you wouldn't design it like that now.

Oh you would love them to be upset and regretful. What a pointless, unpleasant AIBU.

Consider upgrading to modern skylights that have outer blinds and films, inbuilt louvres and that open to let out heat.

The option to shield from direct sunlight and let out hottest air makes a difference.

Trees are a God send.

Trying to picture this, is it a thin strip between two brick structures? Or more like a glass corridor? Something else?

Not sure about your rodent point, are bifolds really so different to patio doors that have been around and ‘flung open’ for many years?

We bought a house with a large
roof lantern in the kitchen extension and I hate it, I’d never choose to install one now that I’ve experienced having one. Boiling hot in the summer, cold in the winter, it’s a spider/cobweb/dead fly trap, a pain to clean and usually covered in bird shit within hours of cleaning. We’re getting air con, blinds and uv reflecting film installed when we have the kitchen remodelled later this year and I can’t wait.

What fo you mean by lanterns op?

Never knew that those skylights were called lanterns! Was initially pretty confused by this thread.