A skylight is a great way of allowing natural light into a room.
A skylight is a great way of maximizing the amount of light that enters a room, making it feel larger and brighter. It also lets in heat in the winter and retains heat in the summer, making it a very environmentally-friendly way to warm your house. Some of the more expensive models come with a remote control, with which you can open the skylight to allow ventilation. Installing a skylight is quite challenging, but can be carried out within a couple of days.
Instructions
1. Go into the room in which you wish to install a skylight, and drill a hole in the ceiling in the location of your skylight. Go outside, climb onto the roof and use your locator hole to measure and cut the opening for your skylight using a circular saw.
2. Install header joists perpendicular to the roof trusses to frame your opening. Use your utility knife to cut the shingles on your roof three inches back from the opening, on all four sides.
3. Fix the skylight into place, securing it with nails or screws.
4. Cut 8-inch wide strips of roofing paper and tuck them underneath the shingles on each side of your skylight. This may be difficult, and you will need to lift the shingles using your pry bar in order to remove any roofing nails that obstruct the paper.
5. Fix a piece of lead flashing onto the bottom of your skylight. This will ensure no rainwater gets into any cracks or gaps between the skylight and the roof. Nail the lead to the skylight, not the roof.
6. For the sides of the skylight, slip flashing beneath the shingles, starting from the bottom and working up. Overlap each piece by four inches or so to ensure a watertight seal.
7. Locate the solid flashing sections that should have come with your skylight and fit them tightly onto your new skylight, starting with the bottom piece first, then the side, then finally the top.
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