06-26-2009, 05:49 PM
We had heard the same hints, then saw some in a house in Volcano.
The house had standard corrugated roofing, just like ours, & the owner had purchased translucent corrugated panels from HPM (these are heavier duty than the typical translucent panels & the literature on them stated they were UV stabilized).
We took out one 8' section of our HPM corrugated metal & installed the translucent panels (the ribs match.... gotta check on your pitch before starting this) in the metal panels place.
We did borrow a friends electric metal shear, so the cuts were easy & make sure you have enough lap on the ends & sides of the panels.
We still haven't finished the ceiling, but the Volcano house that we saw had finished the ceiling with a beautiful frame, much like a shoji screen with a translucent flat panel that let in wonderfully diffused natural light and no water or rain problems for them in quite a few years. Ours has been in since December with no rain problems - yet.
If you want to see ours in our "work in progress", we are on your way into/out of Hilo, if you are in Puna.
The house had standard corrugated roofing, just like ours, & the owner had purchased translucent corrugated panels from HPM (these are heavier duty than the typical translucent panels & the literature on them stated they were UV stabilized).
We took out one 8' section of our HPM corrugated metal & installed the translucent panels (the ribs match.... gotta check on your pitch before starting this) in the metal panels place.
We did borrow a friends electric metal shear, so the cuts were easy & make sure you have enough lap on the ends & sides of the panels.
We still haven't finished the ceiling, but the Volcano house that we saw had finished the ceiling with a beautiful frame, much like a shoji screen with a translucent flat panel that let in wonderfully diffused natural light and no water or rain problems for them in quite a few years. Ours has been in since December with no rain problems - yet.
If you want to see ours in our "work in progress", we are on your way into/out of Hilo, if you are in Puna.