Three Tips For Installing Tubular Skylight's
With the invention of tubular skylights, you can have
natural lighting and almost every room of the house. Tubular skylights
can be installed in almost every possible type of ceiling, you could
ever imagine.
I would like to give you three tips for installing tubular skylights in
your home. I will try to save you some of the frustration that I have
had to deal with over the years, when installing these in my client’s
houses. Let's get started.
1. The most important thing and the biggest problem for anyone who is
installing these skylights is to make sure that you do not cut the roof
or ceiling in the wrong place. Make sure that you double check and even
triple check these locations before you start to cut the openings. Make
sure that the new tubular skylight opening miss all wood framing
members, this would include all ceiling joist and roof rafters.
2. You can save yourself a lot of grief and I mean a lot of grief, if
you could just read the instructions. Before any of you know it alls
start, what would it hurt to lay the pieces of the tubular skylight out
and to quickly go over the instructions? You could actually learn
something in the process. I repeat, make sure that you read the
directions. This could eliminate a couple of problems that you might run
into during the process.
3. Make sure that you seal the roofing correctly. This is one of the
biggest problems for anyone who doesn't have any experience installing
tubular skylights. If you need more information on how to properly seal
around these skylights, you could always purchase a book on roof
repairs.
These three things seem to create problems for most novice do it
yourself, construction professionals. You guys know who you are, so pay
attention, learn, and pass on what you have learned to others.