Hello,
I recently bought a new home that has vaulted ceilings in my kitchen and living room area approximately 30-35 feet tall. I have track lighting on the ceiling but I have no idea how to change the lightbulbs being that high up in the air. I have heard of the telescopic poles but cannot find one long enough to help with my lighting situation. Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

You can find the telescopic pole at Home Depot and Lowes.

I took out my ceiling joist and would like to vault my ceiling. Can I stick frame my new vaulted joist and add my existing purlin support on top of my new rafters? or do I have to install trusses. My existing rafters (2x4)are not trusses but do have a purlin for support sitting on a beam that I'm going to take out. My span for my room is 21' 6".

We have converted a small greenhouse into a cabin. We put the tarpaper and metal roofing right over the lexan. Do we need to leave an airspace between the insulation and the lexan for ventilation, or will the lexan itself act as ventilation? It is an open beam ceiling, and,of course, if we could put the insulation right next to the lexan we could use thicker insulation, a plus here in Alaska. What do you think? Thanks! Keith

Mark: if you want to create a vaulted ceiling in any room you need to first go in the attic and check the room you have, never a good diea to rip out drywall first. then once you have a good idea of what your working with its a good idea to build the framework for the vault and reinforce it to keep strutural stability of the roof and walls. THEN you can cut out your dry wall and joists.

And you can get creative with angles and whatnot but always think ahead. i.e. isulation, electrical, HVAC systems. then lighting and all of this needs to be planned before you go and jump to covering the ceiling back up.

Contract custom remodeler

I purchased a second home that has a vaulted T&G ceiling. It is about 20 feet high. Part of the room has a loft with two sky lights. The house was built in 94. The room gets considerable afternoon sun. It has four large sliding doors with blinds which I keep closed. The room heats up and is difficlut to cool. The air returns are on the floor, so it is not pulling hot air from the ceiling. I have tried opening the sky lights an inch top let hot air out. Would it be helpful to install an inline ventilation fan vented out the house. Would that help the AC system and help cool the house?
thanks

I recently had my home re-roofed. It previously had wood shake and we went to 50 year composition because of fire danger. The contractor did not tell us that we would lose insulation by changing to composition. Now it is impossible to cool down our house because 2 rooms are tongue and groove. I feel he should have advised us to insulate before he laid the roof.

Another big problem is that he used nails that were too long and they came through the beautiful wood causing holes and pieces of wood to come down. He has since re-roofed the 2 sections with shorter nails however we are left with holes and wood missing. His solution is to have a painter come out and re-stain the ceilings. We will still have holes and wood missing? Do you have a solution to our insulation and damage mess. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Joanne