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Installing Velux Skylights

Bob Works on the installation of a Velux roof window installed in a metal shingle standing seam roof with Wayne Quarles.
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Installing Velux Skylights

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" I'm -- is valid installation. They should have done -- second screws out so removed the cladding. OK well let's talk about some of the features of of the velux skylight where they made these days Greenwood South Carolina that's right back duplicated great. And this is in the bronze added I just finish that's services aluminum cladding. -- our 500 spinach. And you have to take this flashing off before we install yes sir we'll look at that in just seconds -- that -- to talk about the wood construction you can see these guys made out. Quality -- we have mortise and Tenon joints which are glued and nailed its interest think is it pretty heavy southern yellow pine and it's not finger jointed it's off solid that's correct I like that heavy piece yes sir. We also have a finished group here which. It's easy the finishing skylight. No notice a group will accept probably finished drywall and also happen. -- through the drywall can go right in and you don't you get an easy detail that's -- right what what about the glass what kind of glass that we have in here this is what caught comfort plus glass -- double pane insulated glass and it's also a laminated glass which helps prevent. Ought to rot rate from fading and here finishes -- the main advantage of a laminated glass is that if you haven't hailstorm are softball comin' through it. It walls break in the future all right it's a site to -- yeah it'll distaste stuck together with eliminating the direct. How do you like these right if you install them with our love that'll put anything in but these because I've never had lightly and that that. That's a good -- Are ready to go up with a yes sir first let me take cladding off. And they will be ready to move the skydome results on the light that's go for. OK right senate that in this whole. Strike into shift he's got to come to me that the let's -- and has elegant ending the right okay. We're just gonna screw enmities mounting screws to come to it and that makes it secure right away you're on a twelve fish -- here. You don't want to play around dumping it could slip and you enough for. -- better -- about a dozen screws into it now right then pin out Carter is an -- and then that looks like it's about six screws in the mounting -- OK so once the skylight brain is secured we're gonna put an ice and water shield down. -- around the around the perimeter of it. Once that the bottom. Picture of -- underneath that probably gets. Under the rubber gasket and as it comes down to meet the heating of the roof you want to have a real tight right angle. -- sprayed on the south. And then you put in a 45 degree cut it -- to the outside. Pulled -- right now. OK and now look at the side down we're going to overlap but this by about an inch right got to wonder and cut it to fit -- start stripping across here then. Got a chalk line that helps us. You would wonder that paper up there yet. -- night for the job. OK so what we've got here now is a flashing hit. That is specifically designed to work with the standing seam metal roofing. And this of course is the bottom things. That's right Bob some metal roof flashing he would not only will -- for standing -- but also other metal reasons as well. Basically this place is still watching piece underneath the rubber gasket. And you're just attaching it would that adults can try. We'll put aside got a piece and had washing piece together yeah there's no need for any kind of roofing cement or any product like that a variety of caulking terrific you know let's talk about this -- you look at. The way this is. -- What do you call that. That's a group are -- you're -- him yes sir yes standard term for at sheet metal just engaged and things. That group right there yes and it's interesting to see the -- could come together just right yes and a piece there and then they interlock like that. That's right down trying get it right Mary -- And so you're gonna have any rain watershed on from that went on to the lower want to start. Let me put this wouldn't put. -- you want to put off Korea these together and then bring it down. And into place. And then we'll secure that to -- With the nails -- and flashing -- These little clips come with a -- already pre drilled and you just have to put three of them on each side. And then these are the pieces that came with the skylight right went. That's right and we'll put the bottom and they act as a counter flashing that's right down there you start with the bottom molecules everything on the bottom. -- Vila hi there you go. Very nice that. This is nicely engineered. OK so we just secure the four corners put everything back together."

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