What's New in Commercial Skylight Repair

Commercial Skylight Repair costs a small fraction of replacement.

Before spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace your large commercial skylight, consider the option of a quality repair to your current skylight. Skylight Specialists bring nearly 30 years of experience to such repairs, frequently solving problems that others believe to be unsolvable. Of course if you just want a new commercial skylight for other reasons, Skylight Specialists can help you there too, but if you really want your existing skylight fixed, and fixed right, call the owner of Skylight Specialists, Rob Packard, at 1-866-SKYSPEC (1-866-759-7732), for a free telephone consultation, or email him; rob@skyspec.com. Our Skylight Specialists are available to solve your commercial skylight problems all over the country.

If you're in Colorado we can help you both with your residential skylights, and with the Velux Solar Water Heating System.


July 02, 2009
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Grocery Store Skylights

Interesting article on the reasons skylights should be in grocery and/or retail stores.
This blog is part of a series from the 2009 Climate Corps fellows. The program, from partners EDF and Net Impact, pairs MBA students with companies to identify energy efficiency opportunities and develop actionable strategies that help host companies reduce costs, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Editors Note

The paragraph below is found in the article written by Christopher Anderson (See the link below)

I’ll likely recommend a skylight retrofit project that may increase sales, reduce energy spend, and cut emissions.  Natural light is free and has long been known to be the best form of light available.  Numerous studies have shown improvements in employee morale, productivity, and even increased retail sales, all attributable to natural light.  Though either initially not considered or deemed not viable, I've changed some minds through my even conservative analysis.  If skylights were retrofitted at a third of Ahold USA stores, we'd likely save more than 13,000 metric tons of CO2 per year with a five year net present value nearing $30 million.


July 02, 2009
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Failed Kalwall Skylights

We are seeing more and more failed Kalwall Skylights

We received another call today from a hospital that had Kalwall installed when it was built and are now having a bad smell near the skylights. This is caused by water penetrating through the gasket seals and/or directly through the fiberglass itself which then sits inside the panels and putrefies.

This is exactly what happened in 2008 at a North Carolina building owned by Duke Energy. We had to remove three old skylights and install new polycarbonate skylights while the building was still occupied.

Contact us for more information if you have the same situation.


June 29, 2009
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Skylight Poem

by Seamus Heaney

The Skylight

You were the one for skylights. I opposed
Cutting into the seasoned tongue-and-groove
Of pitch pine. I liked it low and closed,
Its claustrophobic, nest-up-in-the-roof
Effect. I liked the snuff-dry feeling,
The perfect, trunk-lid fit of the old ceiling.
Under there, it was all hutch and hatch.
The blue slates kept the heat like midnight thatch.

But when the slates came off, extravagant
Sky entered and held surprise wide open.
For days I felt like an inhabitant
Of that house where the man sick of the palsy
Was lowered through the roof, had his sins forgiven,
Was healed, took up his bed and walked away.


June 26, 2009
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Clean Skylights Can Be Humorous

Invisible Skylights
After a quick broom-stick test, she thanked us for her new amazingly invisible skylights.

While on a family vacation, I received this email from one of my employees:

Marjorie Bruce (job 1335) called Trisha to say that our rep (Dave) just took off her old skylights and left without installing the new ones. “Now I’ve got two empty holes and a storm is on its way”.  Trisha give her Dave’s cell number and she leaves him a message in a panic asking him to hurry back with her new ones.  Dave calls me stating that he did indeed replace them with FCMs at 10 a.m. this morning.  I call the customer and she repeats that there is nothing up there.  After a quick ‘broom stick’ test, she thanked us for her new “amazingly invisible” skylights. 


June 23, 2009
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Foot Bridges

Conservatek aluminum structures can provide the flexibility to design interesting projects similiar to this one
The organic and flowing geometry was not a formal response to the clients competition brief. Instead, its configuration is contextual. It is intended to provide multiple ways to appreciate the river.
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Manuela Gatto, Project Architect
Zaha Hadid Architects

Here is an interesting article about foot bridges and the belief that they do more than get you across and obstruction.

We provide aluminum structures and polycarbonate skins to enclose these type of structures.

This project has an exterior CPI polycarbonate skin.


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