Since I'm not in a position to buy land and start a cabin right now, we're looking at small remodeling projects around our house. One of the things that drives us nuts is this skylight:
(https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd113/jareddrake_album/skylight1.jpg)
(https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd113/jareddrake_album/skylight2.jpg)
(https://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd113/jareddrake_album/skylight3.jpg)
Any ideas as to how we can keep the skylights but bring them up to ceiling level?
Jared
I've never seen a skylight done like that on the interior. Isn't that some type of defuser deal ? Can't you just remove that "thing" on the inside?
Is that a common look in your area?
Jared Drake I am like Pegg. Never seen one like that on the interior. It must be one of the original designs. Is the shaft and the skylight one piece unit. As Pegg will probably tell you that typically the skylight shafts can be altered to be flush with the ceiling in the modern types which only sit on the sheeting and the rest has to be framed in. You can flare one end, both ends or all four sides to distribute the light or build them straight down and still have them flush with the ceiling. It is all about trim work.
Just a shot in the dark if I may. If that unit is not a one piece and the shaft can be seperated from the actual Skylight you can shorten the shaft to make it flush, trim the interior with drywall and eliminate the difuser glass. Be interesting to see how that was made.
Quote from: Redoverfarm on June 01, 2008, 08:55:49 PM
Be interesting to see how that was made.
Well, I'll tell you what, next weekend if I have time I'll just climb up in the attic and take some pictures. I may try to get on the roof and take some for you, but that metal is slick and I'm afraid of heights. I've been up there before, but I wasn't happy about it. Here's the story I got on the skylights. They're made by a company called Soluminaire. I tried contacting them, but never got an answer. I don't have any information aside from an article in the newspaper from years ago, and if anyone's interested I'll try and find it to scan and post. That company put these skylights in the gymnasium at the local high school and they make perfect sense there. Tons of overhead room and tons of light. They transmit little to no heat. Personally, I wanted them gone completely, but my wife wants to keep them. I really think I could take them out myself. We're planning on having shingles put back on anyway. Nobody else in the neighborhood (or town, that I know of) has these skylights. The previous owners were just plain weird. They cream colored roof served a purpose: the man who lived here before us bought the house new with his wife and was a big Arkansas Razorbacks fan. He had one entire room painted Razorback red, complete with red ceiling fan. On the cream colored room was going to be painted.....get this.....a giant razorback hog. A freakin' pig. On the roof. So, we're the only house in the neighborhood with a metal roof and it had to be cream. Our brick is burnt orange/charcoal. So we're going to re-roof. Anyway, if you'd really like to see more of the skylight I'd be more than happy to take pics.
Jared
So that shaft is fixed to the upper unit? They must be a PITA to install IF it's a one piece unit!
I'd guess it would be at least two pieces , yes you may need to get on the roof and remove the frame that hold the glass to get inside it , maybe you could get into the shaft from below . Those defusers look removable , maybe not hard to tell from a photo.
But it sounds like your saying IF you could remove the defuser / shaft thats all there is? No framing , no insulation wrapped around it in the attic? ???
Be ashamed to pull that roof off due to color , it looks to be in good shape. How about painting it? Ya I know a "after market" site done paint job may not hold up.
That is weird, any lights in there?
Mike
Quote from: mvk on June 02, 2008, 03:35:43 AM
That is weird, any lights in there?
Mike
Yes, we have lights. I thought you could see the ceiling fan in one of the pics.
Jared
Hey Jared I think he was referring to the skylights having additional lights inside the chase. Maybe I am wrong he can probably clarify. I went on line to the company and didn't go through all the search pages but didn't find anything. It was all pdf and my puter doesn't like the pdf files ???. Do you think these were mainly for commercial use as most of the articles it relates to that type of application. Maybe he got a couple spares that were used in a school or large building locally. Still wondering.
Yes I was wondering if there were lights in the skylight, I never saw anything like that extending below the ceiling and thought that it might have lights.
Mike
As far as I know, there's no lights in the skylight. And yes, I think they must be industrial. In my earlier message, I said that the same company put skylights in the local high school gymnasium, so you may be right that he got some leftovers. However, the one in the kitchen is half the size of the one in the living room. When we bought the house, we got a folder with all the information for things they'd had done to the house like new windows (we've got the reciepts and brochure for those) water heater, etc. Two things we had no information on was the water softener (apparently the same brand and type that Aquafina uses to purify their water...we just took it out and gave it away on Freecycle) and the skylights. The only thing we had on the skylights was a newspaper clipping, so I'm thinking maybe they saw the article and just called the company and somehow got extras. I dunno. I sure do hate them though. Here's what makes me think they're commercial and not residential: there's no way to clean dead bugs from out of them. No hinges, no access points, nothing. The only reason someone would design a skylight like that was if it were going to be very high up where no one could see the dead bugs.
Jared