I have a leak that’s coming from the dunnage installed to hold my rooftop AC compressors. Finally got around to water-testing this past weekend and confirmed, so I’m going to retain someone to fix the issue.<\/p>\n
At he same time Mrs. D has been complaining about the hatch that leads up to the roof, it’s one of those heavy wood tin-covered ones that you have to unhook and push out of the way. So we want to get a more modern spring-loaded one that she can open all by herself.<\/p>\n
Last but not least, I’d like to replace the old copper-and-wire-glass skylight with a Velux or similar. The current skylight is vented. I assume the vent is part of the fire code in that it allows smoke and gas to be vented in case of fire. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a leak that’s coming from the dunnage installed to hold my rooftop AC compressors. Finally got around to water-testing this past weekend and confirmed, so I’m going to retain someone to fix the issue. At he same time Mrs. D has been complaining about the hatch that leads up to the roof, it’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-43785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building_code"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/05\/skylight-code-q\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Skylight Code Question","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/05\/skylight-code-q\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/05\/skylight-code-q\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Building Code","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"denton"}],"creator":["denton"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-05-04T10:44:23Z","datePublished":"2010-05-04T10:44:23Z","dateModified":"2010-05-07T09:44:35Z"},"rendered":"