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Hi Aaron, I just went back a few pages looking for your name because I remembered that you said to keep you informed about my tubular skylights installation. When I came back to the first page, you had posted this information, so I'll contact you this way. I wound up installing 4 skylights, 3-14", 1-10". Nothing happened to make me feel much different than I did when I gave you my initial impressions. I was pleased with the quality of the vinyl roof flashings, the plastic domes, the trim rings and lenses, and the instructions. I was satisfied, if not thrilled, with the quality of the jointed tubes, and the ceiling installation rings. I had to buy a 48" extension for the 10" skylight. The extension and the instructions for using it were the worst items of the lot. The adhesive on the strip which turns the extension from a sheet into a tube would not hold it together. I finally had to pop-rivet it. The installation of the skylight with the extension should have been the easiest one---despite it requiring the addition of a rafter to ceiling joist brace to attach the skylight to---because it was the only one where I could do most of the work while standing (it was in the center of the attic.) But it took several frustrating and unnecessary extra hours simply because of misleading information in the instructions. If you need to use an extension tube with any skylight, assemble the extension and test the fit to the other sections before you take it into the attic. I'd have saved a lot of time and grief if I had done that. The other major difficulty occurs if you have an installation with more than a slight amount of offset between the two holes (roof and ceiling.) The two most difficult skylights for me to install were the ones where the line-up of the holes was poor. The last skylight I installed was relatively easy, both because I was experienced by then, and because I had the advantage of being able to place the holes in a straight vertical line---one directly over the other. One last comment; the color of the light from these skylights is odd. What little sun we get here is pretty low in the sky at this time of year. Only briefly has bright sun shined through the skylights at midday. When it did it was fairly bright, but it still had a bluish cast. When the sun is too low, or the weather is overcast, the light from the skylights has a distinctly underwater look about it. If you haven't seen one of these skylights in operation (as I hadn't) it might be worth the effort to search one out before you install. All the best, Stan
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