Sorry if i sound silly...
Cant answer your PD question but you could certainly get skylights installed after handover - many people, myself included, have installed them in existing houses.
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Has anyone installed a solatube or similar skylight? 21May 11, 2009 7:11 pm Quote: Can we get the skylight installed after the handover /will Pd allow us to get someone else to do them while the roof is being done? Sorry if i sound silly... Cant answer your PD question but you could certainly get skylights installed after handover - many people, myself included, have installed them in existing houses. Re: Has anyone installed a solatube or similar skylight? 22Jun 23, 2010 2:26 pm jamiet In Sydney, Solatubes (290mm) with a chrome surround and flush mounting cost about $1500 (each) installed for a 2.2m tube. These models are their current models with the brighter (more reflective) tubes, not the old models. A Skydome tube is slightly cheaper but much less brighter. I don't know where people are getting the much cheaper prices, but I've had a couple of quotes and they are all in the same ballpark. Perhaps we're not comparing apples to apples? So Skydomes are not as bright as Solatubes? I've gotten some quotes for Skydome's "Skytube Intech" for about $700 for a 400mm version or $500 for a 250mm one. But the Solatube "Brighten Up" 190mm is $860 and the 290mm is $1200. This is for the newer brighter solatube models. Is the price difference justified? What about the increased diameter of the skydomes, wouldn't this overcome any shortcomings in them thru increased size? One thing I like about the Skydomes (apart from price) is the diffuser on the ceiling can be adjusted to open up a bit to allow hot air to leave the room by going up the tube and out vents on the dome on the roof. Not sure how effective this is in practice because its not like the vents are very big. Any advice? Re: Has anyone installed a solatube or similar skylight? 23Jun 23, 2010 6:26 pm Skylights can be great but you absolutely MUST think about where they will be placed as heat and cold can be an issue. In the unit we live in now, we have a lovely big skylight. In winter, when I stand under it, I can feel the cold air dropping and the hot air swirling past me and away. It's well sealed, but being single glazed, it just acts as a big thermal sink in our ceiling. In summer, we have a canvas tarp pulled over it to minimise the worst effects of the sun. For our new place, we are having three openable skylights to let hot air out of our upper story (we have a loft design). They are double glazed and have low-E glass. I thought we were going to be getting blockout blinds on them, but turns out the two leading suppliers of this kind of window only do venetians for openable skylights. We are pretty cross, but by the time we learned this, there was no time to shop around for something else. The two brands recommended by our builder were Fakro and Velux. Our PC was for Velux but since signing, they have replaced their manual openable window with one that is solar powered automatic. It's considerably more expensive - especially when multiplied by three - so we ended up with a manaul version by Fakro. Remember that what you save in buying a cheap skylight you might end up paying out in electricity bills for heating and cooling. e. It might be a bit darker in the mornings but the light is still light, so you should be getting it. Similar to what you see from your western windows 3 20629 The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 16221 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 14372 |