Solarium, Sunroom & Skylights

A stately, well-appointed, low-frills home in Lake Oswego.

O.K., the remodeled family room behind the garage, with the vaulted ceiling and the four skylights to offset some of the darkness of living amongst so much foliage might be considered by some to be a bit of a frill.

The two center non-operable skylights are showing obvious water-damage.

If you enlarge the photo above by clicking on it, you may be able to see the light reflecting upon the water that was eking out of the crevasses the day we were there inspecting the damage…

…as it had been raining the night before. These Velux skylights are top notch skylights. No doubt considered by most in the business, including us, as being among the best that money can buy.

So one obvious question might be to ask “what went wrong?” And the answer is that any glass in any window, door, solarium or skylight that is exposed to frequent moisture in climates such as ours, should be re-glazed every five years or so.

There is much that could be said about this, but we won’t go into that here and now. You might note that although it looked as though only the two center skylights had water damage, once we removed the adjoining, interconnecting flashing…

…it was quickly discovered that the two flanking, operable skylights had also sustained some water damage. It just couldn’t be seen until some disassembly had been accomplished.

So two more skylights were ordered as we finished up this first phase. Our client said that they had never opened the two operable skylights, and thus instructed us to order “non-operable” versions for the replacements.

And so it was that we returned at a later date and replaced the other two as well.