New Rochelle Premium Roofing provides professional skylights in New Rochelle, NY for residential and commercial properties across Westchester County. We do install skylights. We also spend a fair amount of time persuading New Rochelle owners not to cut one into a slate roof. Every penetration in a slate field is a permanent liability, and the repair economics of getting one wrong are worse than they look.
The reason is the flashing. A skylight in slate needs a fabricated soldered pan and step flashing woven into the courses by hand, not the stamped aluminum kit that ships in the box with the unit. That work is done properly once, and if it is ever disturbed the surrounding slates have to be lifted and re-hung, so what would be a routine reseal on a shingle roof becomes a small restoration project.
Where a house wants daylight and has slate above, we usually propose alternatives first: a tubular daylight device landed on a low-slope section or a rear addition, an enlarged dormer window, or a skylight placed on the least visible plane where the flashing can be detailed cleanly and reached later. Those answers cost less over thirty years and often bring in more usable light than the obvious one. Placement is worth more thought than product selection.
On asphalt roofs the calculus changes completely and we install freely. Deck-mounted and curb-mounted units both work when they are set with an ice barrier turned up the curb, a fabricated head flashing and a saddle above any unit wider than about thirty inches, so that water is diverted around the frame rather than dammed against it. A saddle is fifteen minutes of sheet metal and it prevents a decade of leaks.
Replacement is the usual job rather than new installation. Acrylic domes from the 1980s have crazed and gone brittle, and the old sealed units have blown their seals and fogged between the panes. We replace with a laminated glass unit rather than resealing a failed one, because the fogging is a sign the gasket is finished and the frame is generally not far behind it.
Condensation is worth naming, because half the leaking skylights we are called to are not leaking at all. A cold glass surface over a humid bathroom or kitchen drips in exactly the pattern a roof leak does. We check that before selling any flashing work, and often the correct fix is an exhaust fan and a duct that actually reaches outside. We would rather diagnose it correctly than sell you flashing.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — lead-coated copper step and pan flashing, twenty-ounce cold-rolled copper valley linings, slate rippers and copper bib repairs, stainless slate hooks set at the head lap, semi-weathering gray and unfading green roofing slate, terne-coated stainless bay-roof pans — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve New Rochelle and nearby communities including Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Pelham, Pelham Manor.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in New Rochelle covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in New Rochelle, NY. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our New Rochelle services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights
The difference between skylights that lasts and skylights that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with lead-coated copper step and pan flashing, twenty-ounce cold-rolled copper valley linings, slate rippers and copper bib repairs, stainless slate hooks set at the head lap, 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 New Rochelle 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 Westchester County 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 skylights outside New Rochelle
New Rochelle Premium Roofing covers New Rochelle and the surrounding communities of Westchester County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Skylights in Larchmont, NY — Westchester County, population 6,630
- Skylights in Mamaroneck, NY — Westchester County, population 20,151
- Skylights in Pelham, NY — Westchester County, population 7,326
- Skylights in Pelham Manor, NY — Westchester County, population 5,752
- Skylights in Scarsdale, NY — Westchester County, population 18,253
- Skylights in Eastchester, NY — Westchester County, population 20,901
Start on the New Rochelle Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why New Rochelle Chooses New Rochelle Premium Roofing
- ✓We give the covering, the flashing metal and the fasteners three separate remaining-life numbers, because on a Westchester roof they almost never run out together
- ✓Slate relay and full replacement are quoted as two priced lines, with the expected breakage percentage written down before anyone climbs
- ✓We will not coat slate, clay tile or an asphalt shingle roof, and we will explain on site what a coating does to the salvage value
- ✓Every slate we lift comes off with a ripper and goes back on a copper nail or a stainless hook, never face-nailed through the exposure
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in New Rochelle 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 skylights project in New Rochelle 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 (844) 511-2320 for a free skylights free estimate in New Rochelle, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.