VELUX Skylight Planner Apps Available for iPhones, iPods, iPads, & Android Phones

FORT MILL, S.C., June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VELUX® America now offers free apps for smart phones and other personal electronic devices that allow uses to easily visualize rooms bathed in daylight from both traditional and tubular skylights.

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Chan Hoyle, national marketing and communications manager for VELUX, says that the apps give homeowners, homebuilders, remodelers, decorators, architects, installers and others a hand-held tool that shows exactly how different skylights will look in a specific location.  "You simply take a picture with your device of the room location you're considering for a skylight. Then choose from a built-in photo gallery of skylights to place, position, and size the units.  You can see exactly how it would look in your chosen location," he says.  

You can email the finished image to friends, family, a real estate professional, or to a supplier for their thoughts and, when you're ready, there's a GPS-based installer locator for easily finding the qualified installer closest to you.

Whether you want to open up a dark interior room or make an architectural statement, the free VELUX Skylight Planner is the perfect tool to see how skylights would look in your home.

A demo of the How-To Guide to the VELUX Skylight Planner is available at http://www.veluxusa.com/morevelux/news/news_media/iphone_apps.

You can view the app at the iTunes Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/velux-skylight-planner/id410378921?mt=8 or at the Android Market at https://market.android.com/search?q=VELUX&so=1&c=apps

For more information visit veluxusa.com or call 1-800-283-2831.

VELUX is the world leader in skylights and roof windows and is one of the strongest brands in the global building materials sector.  VELUX America products are available nationwide through home centers, building material suppliers, lumberyards, and independent door, window, or roofing retailers.  Consumers can access complete product information and can locate local suppliers and installation information, at www.veluxusa.com. VELUX will mail consumers literature on the benefits of bringing more natural light and ventilation into the home and workplace and on skylight selection, as well as on solar water heating systems.  Call 1-800-283-2831 or request via e-mail at www.veluxusa.com.

SOURCE VELUX America