How to heatproof my sunny kitchen skylights?

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Our kitchen is so hot in the summer (wonderful in the winter!) Big glass sliding doors and huge roof skylights that unfortunately do not open. (We did not do this ourselves.) Think straightforward side return in terraced house.

We have gotten eyepopping quotes for motorised solutions like awnings over the skylights and the back window -- many thousands of pounds. Can't afford this.

Last summer we got some outdoor curtains and that worked pretty well with the big glass door. The bigger question is the skylights. They are surrounded by roof membrane so you can only mount on the glass itself so external blinds may be difficult. Someone gave me the idea to put hooks in the brick wall around it and put up some sunshades (very easy to access this part of the roof and that bit is flat.)

Have thought of film but had mixed reviews.

Any other ideas you would be looking into?

Thanks!

The cling on with water film is so easy to apply and so easy to remove that I would absolutely try that as a first step.

We got a crappy £15 roll from Amazon and it’s turned my OHs wardrobe room from a furnace into a cool room most of the time.

Idk if I would want it in my own permanent home, but for a temporary solution until more money is available, it may just do.

Thanks -- yes, probably worth starting there!

I've been debating these that could be stuck to the inside of our flat roof sky lights. Would need a pole to open/ close them though!
https://www.blindsbypost.co.uk/stickfit-blinds?gad_source=1

Forgot to say, we have white Intu cellular blinds on our bi-folds and they make a huge difference to the heat, whilst not absorbing to much light, so I think the above would be the same, just worried about them losing stick after having the sun beating down on them!

Ooh internal blinds like that that could be the ticket -- thank you!

We had the same problem in our old house and put some heat reflective film on the skylight. Easy to apply and made a massive difference in keeping out the sun.

These films - do they go on the outside or the inside? Guessing inside? We have the same issue but it’s one very large and very high skylight so applying film inside will be really tricky.

Ours went inside and it was easier to
apply than we thought it would be. Part of that might have been in that ours was directly over our island and so we could stand on that!