Episode 008 1995 - 96 Season

| House Wrap | Fiberglass Wall Insulation | Sun Tunnel Skylights | Accessorizing (design) | Building with Bricks | Conventional Loans | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #008.


You Can Do It - Sun Tunnel Skylights

Michael Holigan: You may want to add some natural light in your home but just didn't know how to go about it. Didn't want to go through all the hardship of putting in a skylight. We're going to show you an easy way to install natural light into your home. Takes a couple of hours, you can do it yourself. We're going to add it right here in a bathroom, in a very tight area. Before we do that though, let's turn off the lights and see how dark it is with no natural light. Now let's get started and add some light into this room. First we take our trim ring, and draw a circle exactly where we want our light to come through. Then we take a simple hand saw and cut out our circle. Next, we go up on a roof with the sheetrock that we removed, and we use it as a template to cut out our hole. Now they don't have to line up exactly, because we are using a flexible tube, so we can move it a little bit, and get it exactly where we want it on the roof. Next, we measure how much tubing we're going to need. We tape our tubing to the metal flange that's going to be mounted on the roof. Next we measure for our tubing. We want a tight fit, so we stretch the tubing so the light will reflect from our skylight to the bathroom. We go ahead and cut our tubing exactly where we need it. Then we're going to add a stainless steel ring that we can screw into later when we drop down into the trim ring. We're going to go ahead and pop out a couple of vents and put in some grids, that way if any heat builds up in the skylight, we can have a place to escape. We just drop our tubing in place through the attic, go back inside the bathroom and add our trim ring. Then we go ahead and pull our tubing in place. As you can already see, it's bringing in a lot of light. Screw it in place and then we remove the blue plastic film that's just there for a scratch resistant coating. We add our diffuser and we are done downstairs. Back up on the roof, we nail everything in place. Put our shingles back there, no water leaks. They should already be cut in the right patterns, since we cut out the hole earlier. Go ahead and remove the blue plastic coating upstairs as well. It's time to put our dome on. Now that we're done let's do a little comparison. Let's turn off the lights. Major difference. We brought in a lot of natural light, we didn't need to take up a big area, it's very small, it's flexible, able to get around things in the attic, and it looks great, blends in with the bathroom perfectly. Took less than two hours to install, less than $400 for everything, you can do it yourself.

Episode 008 1995 - 96 Season

| House Wrap | Fiberglass Wall Insulation | Sun Tunnel Skylights | Accessorizing (design) | Building with Bricks | Conventional Loans | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #008.