Detroit Roof Pros provides professional roof skylight installation in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across southeast Michigan. We replace a lot of skylights and we install very few new ones, particularly in a finished half-story. If you have come to this page wanting more light in an upstairs bedroom, read the next two paragraphs before you decide anything.
In a bungalow the sloped ceiling is the rafter bay, and that bay is the only insulation standing between you and a Michigan February. A skylight shaft cuts straight through it. Head and sill of the opening become thermal bridges, the two adjacent bays lose their vent channel where the frame interrupts them, and the shaft returns are almost never insulated back to the value of what they replaced.
The result shows up as condensation. Cold glass and cold shaft walls inside a heated room carrying winter humidity produce water that runs down the reveal and stains the plaster, and every homeowner reads that as a leaking skylight. Sometimes it genuinely is a leak. Just as often the unit itself is perfectly sound and the assembly built around it was never detailed for zone 5A. Replacing the glass does not fix any of that.
Where a skylight already exists, replacement at reroof is straightforward and worth doing. A twenty-year-old unit sitting under a brand new roof is a leak scheduled for a later date, and the labor and staging are already on site. We fit deck-mounted units with the manufacturer's own step-and-head flashing kit rather than a site-formed pan, because the kit is what the warranty is actually written against.
Curb-mounted units on low-slope additions are a different animal and we generally keep them, raising the curb where it sits too low and reflashing with a soldered or seamed metal pan. On a quarter-inch-per-foot roof a curb under six inches high is a bad bet in a wet spring, and we will say so plainly before we quote anything else on that roof.
If the goal is daylight rather than a view of the sky, a rigid solar tube run through a plane that has attic above it delivers most of the light, costs roughly a third as much, and never opens the insulated bay above a bedroom. That is the recommendation we give most often, and it is worth considerably less to us than the skylight would have been.
Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, plaster-and-lath ceiling planes, square-edge 1x6 board sheathing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Redford.
The Full Scope
Everything our roof skylight installation in Detroit covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of roof skylight installation work in Detroit, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation Detroit
- skylight replacement
- leaking skylight repair
- deck mounted skylight
- curb mounted skylight
- skylight flashing kit
- solar tube installation
- skylight shaft insulation
- condensation on skylight
- skylight at reroof
- dormer skylight
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Detroit services.
Materials, equipment and how we do roof skylight installation
The difference between roof skylight installation that lasts and roof skylight installation that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Detroit job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in southeast Michigan means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do roof skylight installation outside Detroit
Detroit Roof Pros covers Detroit and the surrounding communities of southeast Michigan. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Roof Skylight Installation in Dearborn, MI — Wayne County, population 109,976
- Roof Skylight Installation in Dearborn Heights, MI — Wayne County, population 63,292
- Roof Skylight Installation in Livonia, MI — Wayne County, population 95,535
- Roof Skylight Installation in Redford, MI — Wayne County, population 49,504
- Roof Skylight Installation in Garden City, MI — Wayne County, population 27,380
- Roof Skylight Installation in Wyandotte, MI — Wayne County, population 25,058
Start on the Detroit Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (833) 427-4003 and describe the job.
Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Roof Pros
- ✓We label every roof plane attic above or finished space above before we price anything, because that is what decides whether a repair or a replacement is the honest answer.
- ✓The inspection happens indoors as well as outdoors. A pin moisture meter on plaster at the knee-wall base finds what a scuttle-hole inspection structurally cannot reach.
- ✓Deck work is priced as its own line. Square-edge 1x6 board sheathing is renailed where sound and overlaid by the section where it is not, with the square footage stated.
- ✓Ventilation is quoted as a path, not a product. If the wood soffit behind your aluminum was never cut open, a ridge vent has been drawing on nothing for years.
Want a written roof skylight installation estimate in Detroit?
Call (833) 427-4003 or send the short form — no pressure, same-day reply on most requests.
The standards behind roof skylight installation
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The roof skylight installation work we do in Detroit follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every roof skylight installation project in Detroit gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (833) 427-4003 for a free roof skylight installation free estimate in Detroit, or request a quote on our contact page and we'll get right back to you.