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   FrankB89 | Apr 27, 2003 08:28am | #1

   I haven't had the need to install one OVER the peak, but a couple of years ago, I had one made up and I installed it just off the peak so a local TV station could mount and maintain a weather cam on the roof.

   I had a sheetmetal shop build the flashing and hatch from stainless, and then I installed the unit not unlike doing a skylight.  The hatch lid overlays the rim of the hatch and sits down on marine weather stripping and is secured with adjustable cam-lock latches.

   The installation is on a large house on a coastal headland and gets major weather.  So far, all is good.

    

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   Piffin | Apr 27, 2003 06:58pm | #2

   Simple basic flashing details. No problem there but it would look ugly, IMO

   How about disguising it as a cupola on a hinge?

   .

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   GregGibson | Apr 28, 2003 06:29pm | #3

   . . . . or as a chimney.

   Greg.

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   JohnSprung | Apr 29, 2003 01:41am | #4

   Try to avoid having a roof hatch if at all possible.  They're ugly, they leak, they're another opening that burglars can use.  We had one on the old Four Star Theater, it was nothing but grief.  Why not access the roof using a ladder?

   -- J.S.

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   Piffin | Apr 29, 2003 02:39am | #5

   Why would they leak John?

   isn't that like saying, "All shylights leak" or "all basements leak" or paint always blsiters off.

   Should we not use any skylights or paint and never try to put finished rooms in a basement?

   Surely you meant, "If a hatch isn't really well flashed, it can leak, are you sure you want to take the chance?"

   I still love ya but one bad hatch does not ruin a chickens carreer!

   ;).

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   JohnSprung | Apr 29, 2003 02:58am | #6

   Of course you're right.  Usually I write way too much, this time not enough....

   -- J.S.

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   Piffin | Apr 29, 2003 04:00am | #7

   grin

   I'm just like an old woman sometimes!.

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   CAGIV | Apr 29, 2003 05:54am | #8

   I'm just like an old woman sometimes!

   Man if I didn't use my daily allotment  of wit and brain power on someone else here today, I'd have something real special to say to that! :)View ImageGo Jayhawks..............Next Year and daaa. Blues View Image

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   Piffin | Apr 29, 2003 06:12am | #9

   So,

   You're wit out wits?

   I out witted you?

   Ow!.

   Excellence is its own reward!