HOW TO | Velux Skylight Install 

Thank you for all the great videos. I watched your roofing videos and did my shed roof using your knowledge and it worked. After heavy rain for the last couple of days, no leaks. Not bad for a first-time "roofer", largely due to your videos.

Dude, you saved my bacon. I am a reasonably competent DIY and took on the task of replacing an old leaking skylight with this model of Velux on a cedar shake roof. Everything went ok until I could not gete the saddle flashing or the cladding to go onto the skylight frame. Your mention of that stupid extra piece inside the saddle flashing told me where that was and why it was not allowing flashing to fit. Same with how you showed how to put on the cladding. Thank you! Velux instructions are lacking in the use of the English language and additional notes for the new installer using this product for the first time.

Man mad respect for you. You’re like El Dorado, chill and pride in the work🫡

Thanks for sharing all the tricks to the trade

Great and useful video. I'm flashing two skylights tomorrow - really appreciate seeing it done first.

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Wish I saw this video a week earlier. Big help on getting the cladding and flashing on though.

I wanna say battle buddy, today I did my first shingle roof and even though it was small, I killed it because of you. Thank you.

The piece that you discarded at 3:35 in the video does have as purpose for some installations. From the flashing installation instructions: "Install saddle flashing. Determine use of extension piece: use it if the saddle flashing is lifted up by the underlying roofing material and remove it if the saddle flashing fits tightly over the skylight". The instructions have some nice illustrations showing when it would be needed. In your case(s) it is probably not an issue, but in other cases, perhaps. Anyway, like you videos.

Thanks for this video Zach. We are replacing a sky light with this same brand but a walk out version. Keep the videos coming!

Awesome video. I liked and subscribed immediately after you challenged my manhood 😂

I do skylights the exact same and have never had a single issue. Great work

Zach good stuff, good to see you making videos again. You should try to do more "worst roof" videos. Hilarious.

The piece you hammered over at the beginning is probably to cover your nails with. It’s probably designed to have you shoot nails in and then bend it over to cover the nail heads.

FYI, that “useless piece of metal” is intended for helping with height of roofing material. It’s an extension to fill the void caused by thick roofing material like shake or slate. Another helpful tip: use a hand seamer and close the head flashing to cladding overlap at the top. Keeps rain and or snow and ice from creeping up that joint. Just takes a second.

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I don't roof for a living. Only doing a couple of 200 sqft sheds. But watching your videos as made it so much easier and faster than I have ever expected it to go. Did both sheds in one day and looks great. I appreciate your videos. I used your 5 nail method and it was perfect

Velux is the only brand I’ll recommend. All others leak. Great job brotha 💪 love your videos

the old one looks like what I had Andersen, they stopped being in the skylight business, I had 8 of them. After 27 years a few started weeping finally started weeping, rubber gasket got old and dried out, replaced with 8 Velux, Velux has the market indeed. So it was due, new 8 Veluxes and roof shingles 50 year Owens Premium . Should be good for my time...left

ayyyyy welcome back Zak! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 good to see u back at it! hope ur well, keep cooking with crisco brother!

Great work caveman 💪💪 that ice and water can be hell with those velux kits

Best in the game!! Couldnt have made a better video myself... lol. Great video!

Very good I have to fix a skylight like this and your video help me a lot

Tht little piece of metal that u took of the skylight top is incase your installing it over a few layers

Always enjoy your videos and respect that you do things the right way. Just wonder how the hell your back holds up.

Hello sir... Ur work is super.. Sir I'm also working with you

Dude! So good to see your vids again - thought maybe you were in the guardhouse. Please keep em coming yo

Thanks for the lesson.

Hey sac my buddy 👍 put the peeling stick on first before the skylight window .

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You should make a video of how to install skylights on a steel roof. And the roof panels are already installed and have to be cut in. Tony is needing his skylights done. Sincerely your gutter guys!! Lol

Why didn't you add one more row before starting? There's a seam that isn't fully covered by the ice and water. Not sure if you are just concerned about it being part of the underlayment or you want the ice and water to actually go onto the shingles.

Can you please link to the skylight you installed? Where did you get it and what did it cost? Which flashing kit to get? Thanks for a great video - straightforward and quick. Perfect.

that piece from the head flashing you threw away......is for cedar roofs.....in.case of too much build up

Glad you’re back at it with the videos, great work man!

Reach out to paslode maybe they sponsor you with a cordless nailer.

not even sure why this was recommended to me. Even though you forgot that little tin piece I have zero doubt that window is going to leak anytime soon! Don't suppose you're near NW Ohio?

I will say you done a good job 👍 of the sky light shout out to you and boycott

Hey bud its been awhile since iv talked to you i have a quick question.. I'm building 12' wide dormers on a 24 x 24 12 12 pitch gable roof.. For shingling purposes on my ridge should i come straight off so IOW i will have two right angles all even? Or would it be better to hold the new ridge beams down a little from the original ridge? Thanks ahead and keep making videos its been 3 months..

I like to do the sides in two pieces I just find it better when ur bye yourself

HELP.. Could you explain how to join shingles on a four way intersection connected at the same elevation.. one ridge is 12 12 the other is 6 12.. I put new dormers in a 12 12 roof, the dormers are 6 12 but the new ridges come together at the same elevation.. Thanks so much for your help!!

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Thanks Zach, how much ice&water do you put down?

Thank you for the video! I think you helped me decide to hire a professional. You make it look "easy" but it's clearly not. How on earth do you kneel down on roofing and not kill your knees? Thanks! I look forward to checking out your other videos!

The little small piece is not to keep the thing from getting bent in the back is in case you use thicker shingles, like wood shakes or whatever is it like an extension so your back piece of clip over your piece on your flashing come on now. You should’ve ran one more shingle at the bottom before you put your ice and water on too, so it would’ve came out on top of that right there if it gets up underneath it’s gonna come out and run in the bond, but it shouldn’t be getting there anyway cause if you get water on your ice and water, you done done something wrong to begin with. The shingle at roughly 9:53 into the video should’ve been underneath that ice and water . Not on top just saying. Never seal your bottom piece of flashing underneath it all you’re doing is trapping water in man. I’m teaching you all my secrets. Yeah, you should’ve ran one more shingle under the back pan that’s wrong. Yeah it might not look as good with that piece flashing showing at the top but that’s how you get your water back on top of the shingles and not up underneath the shingles. I ain’t trying to nitpick but right or wrong? I mean come on now. Would you rather it be pretty and leak or would you rather have that little piece of flashing showing and not leak? That last piece of ice and water should’ve been up underneath the back pan. If you were gonna put that ice and water on each side of the very top that’s fine. Put it on then put your back pan down over top of that then put your ice water over top of your back pan . I got to quit watching. I can’t watch it anymore. Thank God for all your extra protection and ice and water shield . Good luck, brother. Geeez…

How exactly do you measure before buying the skylight? If theres s fixed mounted skylight thst needs to be replaced, then do tou measure the outside skylight frame or do you go inside and measure the cutter plywood roof?

You should be a dog and post a video on window wraps. I’m a gutter guy but I’m getting into wrapping out of necessity, and I’ve done about three so far and I blow absolute balls.

Snips are better than a knife trust me

Do you use butyl tape it is the stickest tape ever as a glazer we used it.

yeah but where is the 2x4 framing that velux says this has to sit on? maybe a different model than mine...

There are only two types of skylights. Those that leak, and those about to.

I'll always change a deck mount to a curb mount when I replace a roof. Can't stand those things

Just peel and stick that whole low slopped roof what you doing?

Wtf no what did you do

What's going on, long time no see?

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Dude i like your videos but your mis guiding people on this on. Do it the way velux says to do it who cares what it looks like

Boy did you do this wrong.

Those rolls of flashing tape come with the skylight?The step flashing used to come with a bag of little nails so you can nail the flashing to the skylight and not have to nail step flashing to roof?Nice job💪💪