Velux, with the kit
The unit and its flashing kit are designed as one assembly. Buying a cheaper skylight and improvising the flashing out of coil stock saves a few hundred dollars and eventually costs you a ceiling.
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Virginia / Roof System
Skylights in Northern Virginia
One skylight will change a dark room more than any light fixture you can buy. Installed without the manufacturer flashing kit, it will also change your ceiling, and not in a way you enjoy.
Velux units
Manufacturer flashing kits
Fogged glass replacement
Solar powered venting
Reflashing
2
Offices, Springfield and Fredericksburg
Free
Inspections, no pressure
270 lb
CertainTeed Landmark Pro standard
Overview
The glass is almost never what leaks. What leaks is the connection between a rectangular hole and a roof that was designed to have no holes in it at all.
We install Velux because the flashing kits are engineered for the unit and for the roof covering, and because parts are still available years from now when a seal or a motor needs attention. The curb gets ice and water shield before the unit ever goes in, step flashing runs up both sides with the shingle courses, and the head flashing laps over the top. Done that way, a skylight is just a window.
Ice and water first
Membrane wraps the curb and runs up the head and down both sides before the unit is set. It is the layer that saves you when wind drives rain uphill against the top of the frame.
Fogged is fixable
A cloudy pane means the seal between the glass layers has failed. On many units that is a glass replacement rather than a tear out. We tell you which one you are looking at before you spend.
Detail
How we set a skylight
Whether it is a new opening, a replacement unit in an existing curb, or a reflash of one that leaks, the water details are the whole job and everything else is carpentry.
- New openingsWe cut and frame the opening, header the rafters properly, and build the shaft down to the ceiling. Placement matters more than people expect, because a unit on a north facing slope gives even light and one on the south gives heat.
- Replacing an old unitOld acrylic bubbles and early flush units often sit in a curb that is still sound. We can frequently set a new Velux in the existing opening with a new flashing kit and fresh membrane around it.
- Reflashing a leakerIf the unit is good and the flashing is the problem, we pull the shingles around it, strip the old metal, membrane the curb, install the correct kit, and shingle back in. That is the fix, not another bead of sealant.
- Fixed, vented, and solarFixed units for light only, manual or solar powered vented units where you want air, and blinds that run off the same solar motor. Solar operation avoids running new electrical through the roof structure.
Diagnostic
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Four questions. You get a straight read on whether this is a repair, a replacement, a gutter job or an insurance claim, and where to go next.
Roof and gutter diagnostic
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Coverage
Where we work
We cover Northern Virginia and the Fredericksburg area out of two offices. Search for your town, or pick it off the list to see the map and the local page.
No match in our service area. Call (703) 347-6482 anyway, we travel for larger jobs.
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Why us
The part other crews skip
Inspected first
We get on the roof and photograph what we find before we quote. You see the same evidence we do.
Roofing and gutters together
One crew for the roof, the siding and the gutters, so nobody is blaming the other trade.
Licensed and insured
Virginia license 2705155080, CertainTeed ShingleMaster certified, fully insured on every job.
Every job documented
Photos and video through the whole install on CompanyCam, stored indefinitely, with a link that is yours to keep.
Reviews
What Virginia homeowners say
Questions
Skylights questions we get asked
Why does my skylight leak?
Almost always the flashing, not the glass. Older units went in with sealant and coil stock instead of a proper kit, and once that sealant lets go the water has a straight path down the side of the curb. We rebuild the detail rather than resealing it.
Should I replace the skylight when I replace the roof?
If the unit is older than the roof coming off, yes. The flashing has to be rebuilt either way, so the labor is already on site, and setting a new unit at that point costs a fraction of doing it later as its own job.
How many skylights can I put in a room?
It depends on the roof planes and the framing more than on the room. Two smaller units spread across a slope usually light a space more evenly than one large one, and smaller openings mean less rafter cutting and less structural work.
Will a skylight make the room hot?
It can, depending on the slope it sits on and the glass. Current Velux units come with low emissivity coated glass, and vented units let the hot air off the ceiling in summer. We talk through orientation before anybody cuts a hole.
Can you add one to a room with an attic above it?
Yes, with a light shaft framed through the attic from the roof opening down to the ceiling. The shaft can run straight or flared, and a flared shaft throws noticeably more light into the room for the same size opening.
By town
Roof Repair Near You
Every town we cover has its own page with local detail. Pick yours.
By town
Skylights Near You
Local pages for the towns we cover.
Protect the roof
A roof is only as good as the gutter below it.
Clogged gutters back water up under the first course of shingles, rot the fascia and feed ice dams. Keep them clean on a schedule and the roof edge stays dry. Ask about adding the Annual Gutter Cleaning Plan to your roof project.
Add light or stop a leak
Free inspection and a free written estimate, whether you want a new skylight or you want the one you have to stop dripping. Photos of what we find, and no obligation.
- Free inspection, no pressure
- Photos of everything we find, yours to keep
- Licensed and insured, VA 2705155080
- CertainTeed ShingleMaster certified
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