Hey guys welcome back to the channel! Today we are so excited we are finally
installing our skylight for our van! So we got the skylight from
Icon which is a Canadian company, it's 53 inches by 37 inches so it's
gonna provide a ton of natural light inside the van, yeah
it's huge so we should have room for the skylight,
up to three solar panels, and then a fan and that's about it. It should be good
yeah we're really looking forward to it. We chose to go for one of the biggest
skylights we could find and we also chose the clear skylight just because
we wanted to let a bunch of natural light in
but they have a bunch of options based on size
and tint and everything like that. They really have anything that you would need
yeah they carry a whole bunch of other
products too like we got a water tank through them
they do windows and they have like a wack ton of RV parts if you're ever
looking for parts. We will be linking their website
in the description below so make sure to check them out if you're looking for
something like this. Alright, let's get cutting time to cut the roof off!
So we actually are really lucked out
with the dimensions on this our plan is to kind of go from this beam to this
beam here so we only have to get rid of one support beam
and even though it is 53 inches long, the skylight, there's a little flat
space on each side and the curvature is actually 49 inches
which is exactly between these beams. Alright so you're gonna need a variety
of different tools if you're interested in doing this yourself
but step number one is going to be measuring out
as Cayleigh just went over where exactly you want your skylight to go and then
we're gonna go ahead and start cutting this baby out
so just marking out the lines for the lengthwise
on top of the roof here David's being super safe with one foot on the van and
one foot on the garage i'm essentially always safe
70 percent of the time
as you can tell grinding and flip-flops number one safety check
slap the base
woo! done! We have a hole
So we've got our hole in the roof, our issue now is these little ribs that run
lengthwise down the van so we are trying to hammer them out
currently, we'll see how it goes.
So the hammering didn't work out so we're just gonna cut out the notches
and put the skylight in and figure out a way how to seal it up whether that's
fiberglass or silicone or polyurethane or
whatever. we'll figure it out this seems to be working much much better
though half done have to go! Alright so
day two here on the skylight install and what we ended up doing is getting
some fiberglass bondo and filling these holes that we cut out
of the grooves all the way around i also got some
primer and coated all um the cut edges like metal that
we cut open yesterday so hopefully this will harden up nice
and it doesn't take very long so we should be able to in the meantime
cut the wood trim that's gonna go and support
from the inside here gonna run two by two
pieces of spruce along either side and then screw that into the metal frame
and that should help support the skylight on either side
oh yeah stoked all right so we've got our beams on
either side and we used a little metal brackets
to help support them and they are really solid
on either side so that'll definitely help support any
thing like snow or anything else that is up top there
anyways i think our fiberglass is pretty much dried so
i'm gonna go dry fit the skylight and see if it is going to work out
we dry fitted the skylight on and drilled all the holes
going around the edges now what i'm doing is i'm just going to go around and
clean everything and then we are going to
throw down some of this zika flex sealant
it's designed for rvs and it's commercial grade so it's super strong
and then we're going to go around and screw
every hole and that's pretty well it and then if there's any gaps along
the edges i'll come back around with some of that sealant and fill in
the edges and also the tops of the screw holes
just to prevent any leaks and then should be good to go which is pretty
exciting all right so i've gone around and screwed down and now
we have a little extra the sikaflex so i'm going to go around the edges and
make sure these edges are all sealed up nice and
then i'm also going to put a dab right on top of the screw hole
one thing that a lot of people do use is um double-sided tape there's like a
heavy-duty rv tape i didn't want to use that because
um people have used that to seal up these seams and it's just super messy if
you ever have to replace it really hard to get off so
i've just gone ahead and done this and we'll see how it plays out but it seems
to be um pretty solid so far so
oh it's so new never
all right so the skylight is installed and it's all sealed and we let it dry
for a couple days now it's time to put it to the test
see how we did yes uh basically we are just going
to drown it with the hose for a few minutes and see if any water gets inside
it's holding up really well so far no water at all coming through
yay
that's it for the skylight wet and well tested well no leaks
so far so pumped about it yes so much light we're thinking about
possibly getting it tinted we'll see yeah or we're gonna get maybe some kind
of a shade yes but for right now we're
excited about it all alright so if you like this video make sure to give it a
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