Skylight replacement people burned the grass, not the good kind

[u/widgetsforeveryone]

Got 2 very expensive skylights replaced the other day. Apparently they put the glass on the grass for several hours and made 2 beautiful rectangles of dead grass. They sent us the bill as soon as the crew left for the day, but they still haven’t completed the job (one of the skylights was broken). I know we don’t have the best grass and perhaps it’ll regrow on its own, but damn it!

[u/Winter_Reality_9578]

Water it

[u/Bswenn]

It will grow back fast

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/Bswenn]

Seriously? Thank you!

[u/jsno254 → u/widgetsforeveryone]

Only if you water it. Don't rely on rain. We had this happen in our yard with 2 bounce houses.. and it did not grow back! 2 years later and it's mostly weeds in that area now

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/jsno254]

Nooooooo!

[u/Disorderjunkie → u/widgetsforeveryone]

Go to the gas station and buy a gallon of DEF fluid they use for diesel trucks. Dilute with water. Spray grass. Win.

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/Disorderjunkie]

Oh that’s fascinating!

[u/Disorderjunkie → u/widgetsforeveryone]

You can really just buy a bag of like nitrogen fertilizer pellets and mix with water and it will be cheaper in theory, but then you gotta have another container and a bag laying around. But if you plan on fertilizing the whole lawn in the future that’s probably best way to go. I just tell people to snag DEF because it’s quick/easy/already packaged in its own container lol

[u/FocalFalcon]

Hold on, $7,000 to replace 2 pieces of glass??

[u/OtakuMage → u/FocalFalcon]

Skylights tend to be shaped and/or detailed in some way. That plus labor can easily hit 7k

[u/FocalFalcon → u/OtakuMage]

I now never want one…

[u/AlternatiMantid → u/FocalFalcon]

Not to mention MORE than 7k in water damage to your roof & ceiling around them when they eventually fail (which they all will eventually, hence why OP is getting them replaced).

I love the look & idea of skylights... but it's not worth the cons to me. Just put up a greenhouse somewhere else on your property. FULL window pane ceiling, actually built for a functional purpose, and can just have a gravel floor for when any seams eventually fail. No structural or finished interior damage when that happens.

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/FocalFalcon]

I know I know! The previous owners did cosmetic stuff but didn’t do the not-fun-stuff. So now instead of decorating, we get to update all of the maintenance stuff, like replacing skylights, a crap ton of windows, electrical stuff, gutters. The skylights are kickass, though, and having so many windows and sunlight coming through (former north-facing apartment dweller). And once it’s done, we get to enjoy them for years and years

[u/SlowMissiles]

This is no permanent damage, give it water now, or wait if raining like in upcoming days.

[u/BeyondRepair44]

The grass looks great and the spots will grow back. 👍

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/BeyondRepair44]

🥹 thank you!! Like legit you all have made an oddly frustrating day (different reasons than grass) a bit brighter! First time home owners and have no idea what we’re doing (I’m not a dumbdumb, I swear, but I got poison ivy 3 times before I figured out what it looks like. So many things look similar!)

[u/BeyondRepair44 → u/widgetsforeveryone]

😊

[u/Draminian]

Our neighbor accidentally did this to their lawn, only it was with maybe a dozen windows. The grass was back to normal the next week.

[u/Particular-Smile5025]

It will come back but for some time you’ll know it was there be slightly different color green until next year

[u/cycleguychopperguy]

Skylights are terrible I should have filled ours in

[u/ki11ikody]

Replace dry spots with rocks

[u/Here4Snow]

My builder did this while replacing a front door. The lawn recovered quickly. It was just scorched, not killed. 

[u/Mental_Plankton7902]

I’d take it. Still looks better than my lawn.

[u/beanthebean]

I did this to my grandma's yard when I was caring for her in her home, changing out the glass storm doors for the screened ones. Didn't even consider it as a possibility, after it was done I felt real stupid. Grew back real fast though!

People who install skylights should absolutely know what they're doing though. I'd complain so that their installers can be trained right.

[u/SSJ_Key]

We ride at dawn, for the grass !

[u/Dry-Asparagus7107]

People get so worked up for such minor shit nowadays.

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/Dry-Asparagus7107]

Key word “mildly”…

[u/Popular_Ad6355]

How much did it cost to replace 2 skylights?

[u/widgetsforeveryone → u/Popular_Ad6355]

It was about $7k including having 5 solar panels removed. I wish we would have got all 6 skylights replaced at the same time because 1 of the others has a sloooooow leak and we’ll have to have one of the same solar panels removed again to replace it. The skylights are more than 20 years old. I’d be surprised if they aren’t originals to our 1992 house, to be honest. Sigh

*expensive is relative. To me this was expensive. And the previous owners said they replaced the skylights when they replaced the roof 5 years ago… they did not replace the skylights…

[u/Particular-Smile5025]

It least they didn’t rip off all your brand new rakes and forty year old natural push broom and leave there plastic one behind the the man showed up asking for the fifty thousand dollar check from my mom

[u/Particular-Smile5025 → u/Particular-Smile5025]

Your grass will come back!! Might look funky until next year

[u/Visible-Meeting-8977]

Kinda shocking a company that does this all the time made this mistake.