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Default Skylights: double up the rafters?

Aaron Fude wrote:
Hi,

My carpenter just told me that if I am having a skylight put in
between two rafters, I should double up each rafter because the hole
in the wall weekens the roof. Do you agree with that?

Thanks,

Aaron

Hi,
My last house had a few skylights. Didn't have a reinforced rafters.
I was the original owner and lived in that house almost 20 years.
Did not have any problem anything to do with sky lights. Now I live
in this house custom built in '94 per our plan. We did away with sky
lights, we have all glass all season sun room now like a green house.