Solarium, Sunroom & Skylight Repair

Wikipedia says a Solarium may refer to a Sunroom, a sun parlor, sun porch or sun lounge. Saying that these things are usually a structure…

…constructed onto the side of a house which allows enjoyment of the surrounding landscape while being sheltered from adverse weather conditions.

It goes on to explain that they can also be referred to as a patio-room, a conservatory, a garden-room or a Florida-Room. As you can see, this one has some foggy (failed) insulated glass.

And if you enlarge this photo, you may be able to make out the crack in one of the other panes of glass.

As you can see if you look back at the first photo, there is an adjoining roofline just above this sunroom structure. Bruce is shown here (above) dismantling some of the metal flashing that ties in the with…

…Solarium structure below. This accounted for most of the work on this project.

Dismantling the adjoining flashing components in such a way as to allow us to reuse them.

Once those components were removed, replacing the insulated glass units was a breeze, by comparison.

David & Bruce shown here putting everything back together with the new insulated glass units in place.

Note the delicate art of balancing upon the support components without breaking the glass, as they go about cleaning off the excess glazing compounds.