Acrylic Or Polycarbonate Skylight

The polycarbonate in our polydome skylights is the same product used to produce airplane windows and football helmets.

Acrylic or polycarbonate skylight.

Impact modified acrylic domes. Contact us for an estimate. Polycarbonate skylights resist temperature extremes from a frigid 60 below zero to an oven baking 250 degrees. Due to its natural strength acrylic sheeting is the preferred material for skylight domes.

Acrylic skylights use 1980 s design technology. Polycarbonate is a tough transparent plastic material with outstanding strength stiffness and impact resistance. Acrylic has roughly 17 times the impact resistance. It has a much greater degree of impact resistance.

Polydome skylights are 30 times more impact resistant than acrylic skylights and 250 times more impact resistant than standard glass. We keep these popular color choices in stock. Throughout the world polycarbonate is becoming the most popular choice for rooflights. Polycarbonate s optical clarity makes it ideal for applications such as machine guards signs face shields skylights pop displays.

Quality skylight products include acrylic dome skylights glass skylights replacement domes and sun tunnels. The better ones will have thermal break which separates the interior and exterior thermally aluminum frames however glass has much better thermal insulation standard in every skylight. Some of the most respected architects in the world including the herzog and de meuron and norman foster practices have used polycarbonate as their skylight material to stunning effect. Sun tek polydome skylights are uv stabilized for long lasting protection.

Made in the usa. In general terms polycarbonate rooflight is customarily better than acrylic skylight. Acrylic plastic available in all sizes and colors up to 93 25 x 93 25 square and 51 x 99 rectangle is still the most common material found on a residential domed skylight. Do not drill or nail through the flange on an acrylic dome.

Polycarbonate is the stronger material at 250 times the impact resistance of standard glass. Acrylic and polycarbonate skylight both boast of exceptional degrees of damage resistance. Acrylic sheet commonly referred to as plexiglass acrylic sheeting offers great light transmittance and strength. Skylights whether you need to replace a small dome skylight or want to have a large commons area for your retail space regal has a plastic solution for that.

Acrylic is naturally uv stable and will withstand years of abuse from the sun. Acrylic has a high gloss finish and is more transparent making it ideal for display cases. Polycarbonate offers much more resilience than acrylic making it ideal for highly demanding applications like bullet resistant windows. Both are synthetic glass and each offers tremendous flexibility.