Building the Sun Room, Continued (January 27-28)
It took most of the day on Saturday, but we put up 7 more roof panels.
Each roof panel is 3' x 12' and had a vent that needed to be built into
the pre-punched hole. Here are the steps. |
Tape the top and bottom of the opening with the white tape (allows
water through) |
Install rods that are part of the closure system. The tabs just spin
around, so it takes three hands to attach. |
Assemble the knob and screw it into correct set of holes on the
underside. Then position the vent in place on the panel and screw in a
zillion (okay, only 32) screws through panel and into a gasket that you
don't see on the other side. Unfortunately, lining things up is tricky. |
Attach the control arm. Of course you have to remove one of the four
screws that you needed three hands to install. It did get easier after the
12th vent. |
Turn the whole thing over to reattach the screw you loosened to add
the control arm. |
Position the screen in place and screw the cover on the bottom side to
hide the zillion screws - just four more screws. |
Caulk around the outside. They said to do this once the panel was in
position, but reaching the far side is tough. |
Apply aluminum tape to the top edge of the panel. |
Apply the breathable tape to the bottom edge of the panel. |
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All done! Ready to put the panel in to place. |
Here are 11 panels in place. It takes about 1 hour per panel to get it
screwed and caulked into place. Finished about noon on 1/28. |
Before placing the panel, you have to apply foam gasket to the header
panel on both sides. |
The black gasket gets attached to the battens - single and double. The
double batten sits between the panels. To attach it, you need to reach
over the 3' panel and screw into the center channel. |
The single battens (lower left) attach at the top and bottom edge of
the panels. |
We also installed about 1/4 of the windows. They go up easy, but there is
quite a bit of preassembly for each - adding the latches, weep hole
covers, and gasketing.
We did manage to uncover the pool, so we can actually continue that
installation now that it is covered. |
