Glass roof in south facing utility.

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We have a small side return extension room which we want to turn into a utility room. It's approx 1.5m wide and 3.5m long.

We are end terrace with a narrow pathway between us and the neighbour. The back of the house is SSE facing and the side return is on the east side of the house. It gets direct sun about half of the day until it's in the shadow of the main house.

The room will have a window at the garden end and an internal window at the house end to bring natural light into the back of the house and provide a glimpse of garden in the main living room.

The room won't be occupied as a living room, just for putting on washing and suchlike. It won't be used for ironing because it's too narrow, so really no one is likely to be in there for more than 5 to 10 minutes at a time.

I'd like to have a glass roof to maximise the light into the back of the house but I'm worried about the heat both in the room itself and transferred to the rest of the house.

It's small enough that I'd consider specialist glass to reduce heat if such a thing exists.

Does anyone have any thoughts about whether this is practical or advice on how it can work?

I think it will be incredibly hot. I also wouldn't have an internal window into the house from a utility room.

I also wouldn't have an internal window into the house from a utility room.

Yeah, obviously I'd prefer to have no internal window and a detached mansion with huge windows flooding every room with light and views of our sweeping landscaped grounds. But what I actually have is a small terrace in North London, so it's a choice between an internal window and no natural light at the back of the room.

could you have a sky-light just at the end of the room nearest the internal window?

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could you have a sky-light just at the end of the room nearest the internal window?

The room currently has two flat skylights (about 40cm*60cm) and a window at the end wall but it just doesn't seem to bring much light any deeper into the house. I think it's because the depth of the roof/ceiling sort of swallows the light, that's what I was thinking of a glass roof instead.

www.sterlingbuild.co.uk/product/sterlingbuild-22-flexible-light-tunnel-with-3m-tube-for-tiles?gclid=CjwKCAjwj6SEBhAOEiwAvFRuKDt_wBlsj9VmAyo0Flvg3kxriLlFmJHyCj0RJlngB7kxp4_730m9CRoC2qcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

What about something like this?

It's a possibility, but seems like it's more for spaces where you can't have a window or a skylight. I'm honestly ok with an internal window and just keeping the utility reasonably tidy! Main thing is to get as much light into the utility as we can without cooking ourselves.

what about light tubes?? I can't see they would introduce much heat, and I think you can have them fitted with fans in.

don't know about the light transferring through to another room though.

We have a conservatory on the back of the house. Special in filtering glass or something not sure as we bought it with the house!
The conservatory runs along the back so we have patio doors into the lounge and the kitchen window now looks Into the conservatory. The kitchen has no other windows and is perfectly bright in the day time, the conservatory has the utility stuff in and is south west facing so gets lots of sun. It’s brilliant for drying washing!