The house was entirely re-roofed in 2007 by Daystar Roofing using CertainTeed Landmark asphalt shingles with a 30 year warranty. Mark at Daystar guarantees his work for 5 years against leaks, so there's still two years left on the warranty. At the time Daystar re-roofed the roof, there were actually 10 skylights on the home. You can see them in some of the older satellite photos of the home.
In effort to keep the bedrooms darker (so we could sleep in if we wanted to), the skylights over the upstairs bedrooms were removed. In addition there was a hip skylight over the center staircase, which was cracked and leaking. It was difficult to find a suitable replacement for this skylight, so in the end, it too was removed and roofed over. In the end 4 skylights were left in place over the large shared use area on the second floor and one skylight was left in place over the attic crawlspace. I had at one time considered extending this skylight down into the master bedroom on the ground floor for additional light into this bedroom (and then add a shade so it could also be covered), but we never got around to it, so for now, it provides light to the storage area.
Since these are plastic bubble skylights I've also considered replacing them with Velux dual-paned glass skylights. (I should also mention the existing skylights are in perfectly good condition, and have no leaks.) Velux makes a direct retrofit replacement for these bubble type skylights and they run less than $200 a piece. There's no re-roof work necessary to install these, just unscrew the existing skylight from the curb mounting, and screw in the replacements. Here's a link to one that should fit and talks about it being a replacement for these bubble skylights.
No comments:
Post a Comment