Recent skylight work
Flushing covers more kinds of building than any other neighborhood we work in. Murray Hill and Broadway-Flushing have wood frame and stucco houses on wide lots with real pitch to the roof. Downtown has newer mixed use and apartment buildings. In between there is block after block of attached and semi detached brick two family houses with roofs that read flat from the street but actually carry a shallow low slope, which is a different animal and gets built differently.
Low slope is where most of the trouble we see in Flushing comes from. Water does not sit on it the way it does on a true flat roof, but it does not run off it the way it does on a pitch either, so it moves slowly across the deck and finds whatever is weakest. On a low slope roof the curb has to be built tall enough and the flashing has to be lapped the right way round. When somebody gets that wrong the skylight is blamed for a problem the curb caused.
The other common Flushing call is a bank of four or six units of the same age all starting to go at once, usually thirty or forty years old. Replacing them in one visit rather than one at a time is cheaper, because the staging and the setup are the expensive part, and we will show you that on the quote as a single mobilisation rather than burying it. Replacement on a sound curb starts at $2,079 installed.
Leaking skylight in Flushing? Start with a professional assessment from New York's original skylight specialists. Skylights are all we have done since 2005: licensed and insured (LIC# 2084179), VELUX Trained & Approved, an official VELUX dealer, 4.9 stars on Google, and a 10-Year No Leak Warranty on every unit we install. Roofers and handymen do skylights on the side; we are the specialists the roofers call. Water dripping from the skylight, a stain on the ceiling under it, a drip that only shows up in a heavy rain: none of that tells you what actually failed. We come out, find the real cause, and give you a straight answer and a price for the right fix, which is usually a new unit. Active leaks go to the front of the schedule.
It changes the curb and the flashing. Water crosses a low slope roof slowly instead of either ponding or running clear, so the curb has to stand tall enough above the deck and the flashing has to lap in the direction the water actually travels. Get that backwards and the unit leaks no matter how good it is.
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do here. The usual spot is over the top floor stair or the middle bath, which on an attached two family gets no daylight from any wall. A curb mounted glass unit on an insulated curb is the normal answer.
A certificate of insurance naming the building, a written scope, and a clear answer about the roof warranty. If there is a managing agent they will want all three in one document. Depending on the scope the work may need to be filed, and we will tell you plainly whether yours does rather than letting you find out later.
Broadway-Flushing is not a New York City landmark district, so Landmarks review is not normally in play, but parts of it carry private deed restrictions from the original development and some of those speak to alterations. Check your deed, and we will look at the roof and tell you what would be visible from the street before you order anything.
Usually yes. At that age they have all reached the same point and fixing them one at a time means paying for the setup four times. Done in one visit we show the saving on the quote as a single mobilisation credit rather than hiding it in the unit price.
All of it. Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill, Broadway-Flushing, Queensboro Hill and Kissena. That is 11354 and 11355, and we are in College Point, Whitestone and Corona regularly too.
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We cover every part of the borough. See skylights in Queens, our published prices, or NYC permits and landmark rules. Serving 11354 and 11355.