Solarium, Sunroom & Skylight Repair

A stately property with a sunroom in the S.W. hills overlooking Burnside and nearby properties.

A vinyl sunroom to be exact.

Herein lies the reason for our being called. You might click on the photo if you want to see it a little better.

Tubes, electrical wires & after-market screws were the source of many of the water leaks.

Apparently, someone at some time installed electrified operators to open these roof-hatches for ventilation. See the water draining out from screw-holes made to install the hardware?

Installing the fans on structural components into which water was meant to be channeled back out to the exterior was also probably not the best idea. Our client told us water was pouring out of the fan assembly.

One of the other problems we identified was a lack of proper flashing between the roof-structure shown here, and the upper-most portion of the sunroom structure.

So we had Schmeer Sheet-Metal fabricate some custom flashing to our specifications and tucked it up under the composition roofing and installed it all along this roofline between the sunroom and the house (flashing not shown).

We were surprised how well the roof-hatches were designed to catch and route water back out to the exterior.

As long as you don’t drill holes in them, they’d probably work fine.