Skylights
The first Skylight project you see here is actually the third skylight I installed in my house in MA in the 1980s. I show it first because it required more effort than the first two. The roof was pitched but the room ceiling was flat.
This means that it's more than just cutting equal holes in the roof and ceiling and finishing off each side.
It meant finishing off the channel between the roof and ceiling. The channel had to be sized large enough to allow light into the room without being an oversized opening in the ceiling. Then vertical 2x4s to create the 'walls' oif the channel. Fiberglass batting had to be installed to keep the pace insulated.
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This first photo shows the underside of the roof around the skylight now newly finished ceiling.
Here you can see how much larger the channel is than the skylight. You get an idea of how important it was to move the wall behind the skylight back to allow sunlight to get into the room and not be blocked by the wall.
To give you another perspective, the backend of the skylight was at about the same point on the roof as the middle of the chimney.
The edge-line of the T-111 sideing approximates the ceiling. Use the chimney's run from the roof to that edge and you get a good idea of the depth of the channel.
You can see that I got it right by how nicely lit this room is, all by the skylighte.
If you cut a hole in the roof, you better be darn sure yo do the roofing right or you'll regter having done it at all
These were my first two skylights done in a single project. This was easier than the project above for you can see the ceiling is common with the pitched roof.
Here's the finished project, inside and out.
