[Cob] skylight design

[Patrick Newberry]

Yea, this is Pat.

I put a sky light over a recipical roof. It is that lexon glass with a
simple 2 x 4 frame (very odd shape like everything in my house) Since
the sky light is at the highest point of the house I've not had problems
with leaks. In the case of sky lights, higher is better, or at least
easier to keep from leaking. The sky light does collect condensation in
the winter but since, like everything in my house, the sky light is not
level, the condensations follows the glass to a single point and then
drips. My solution was to put a plant under that one spot. Now that
plant gets both light and water from my sky light!


Here is link to photo:  http://users.pstel.net/goshawk/0907f.htm


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And Pat Newberry has his earthbag/superadobe structure with a skylight
at 
the top.  He may have other skylights as well, since he's pretty big on 
daylighting.  And he's on this list.

http://users.pstel.net/goshawk/
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