Polycarbonate Sheeting
Polycarbonate Sheeting Services
The cheapest light in any building is the sun — and polycarbonate sheeting is how you use it. Translucent roof panels let daylight flood a warehouse or factory floor, cutting the need for artificial lighting right through the working day. Sicon Group supplies and installs polycarbonate sheeting to bring free, natural light into industrial and commercial buildings — without compromising the weathertightness of the roof.
What Is Polycarbonate Sheeting?
Polycarbonate is a tough, lightweight, translucent plastic sheeting. It comes in profiles that match standard metal roof sheeting — IBR and corrugated — so a translucent panel can slot straight into a metal roof as a "roof light", or come in multiwall sheets for skylights, canopies and covered areas.
What makes it so useful is the combination: it transmits daylight like glass, but it's far more impact-resistant, a fraction of the weight, and it can be shaped to match the roof it sits in.
Why Natural Light Pays for Itself
Fitting roof lights isn't just about looks — it changes how a building runs:
Lower Energy Bills
Daylight through the roof means the lights stay off during the day. Across a large industrial floor, that's a meaningful, ongoing saving on electricity.
A Better Place to Work
Natural light improves visibility, safety and morale on the floor. Working under daylight simply beats working under banks of fluorescent tubes.
Free and Reliable
Once it's installed, daylight costs nothing and never load-sheds. It's the one lighting upgrade that keeps on paying you back.
Where Polycarbonate Sheeting Works
Because it matches standard roof profiles, polycarbonate fits almost anywhere you want daylight:
- Roof lights set into metal roofs, matching the IBR or corrugated profile
- Skylights over factory and warehouse floors
- Canopies, walkways and covered areas
- Atriums, entrances and patios
- Anywhere you want natural light without building a full glass structure
Why Polycarbonate, Not Glass or Fibreglass
For a roof, polycarbonate beats the alternatives on nearly every count:
- Almost unbreakable — hugely impact-resistant compared to glass, which matters under hail
- Lightweight — easy to handle and install, with little added load on the structure
- UV-protected — modern sheets have a UV-stable surface, so they don't yellow and go brittle like old fibreglass
- Insulating (multiwall) — twin- and triple-wall panels trap air and reduce heat transfer
- Profile-matched — corrugated and IBR poly integrate seamlessly with an existing metal roof
Why Installation Is the Part That Matters
Polycarbonate is a brilliant material that's easy to install badly. The single most important thing to get right is thermal movement: polycarbonate expands and contracts with temperature far more than metal does. If it's fixed rigidly — like a metal sheet — it has nowhere to go, and it cracks, splits and leaks. Correct installation means oversized fixing holes, the right washers and sealing, weatherproof laps and flashings, and the UV-protected face fitted the right way up.
The most common reason a polycarbonate roof light fails is being installed like a metal sheet. Poly needs room to expand and contract — get the fixings and sealing right, or it cracks within a couple of seasons.
"A row of polycarbonate roof lights is one of the few upgrades that improves the working environment and cuts the power bill at the same time — for as long as the roof is up, provided it's installed to move with the temperature."
Bring Daylight Into Your Building
Want to light your floor with the sun instead of the grid? Sicon Group supplies and installs polycarbonate roof lights and sheeting, matched to your roof. Contact us — nationwide.
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