Recent skylight work
Jackson Heights is the garden apartment buildings, the six story prewar buildings built around a shared courtyard, and a good part of the neighborhood is a historic district. Most of the skylight calls we get here come from top floor owners who want light in a bedroom or a kitchen, and from building owners dealing with an old skylight over a stair or a hallway that has started to leak.
For an apartment owner the skylight is the easy part. The paperwork is the job: a certificate of insurance naming the building as additional insured, a written scope, product data, and a straight answer on what opening the roof does to the building's roof warranty. We ask who holds that warranty before anything is cut, because opening a roof under an active warranty without the roofer involved can void it. We have done enough of these that the package is routine for us.
Jackson Heights also has the attached brick and Tudor style row houses on the side streets, with flat roofs and the same dark middle hallway as the rest of Queens. Those are curb mounted units from $2,079 installed on a sound curb, or a new opening from $3,500. If the house is inside the historic district and the skylight would be visible from the street, Landmarks looks at it first.
Leaking skylight in Jackson Heights? 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, 4.8 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.
Very often, yes, with the building's approval. The building's own rules decide the process, and it will want insurance, a written scope and a roof warranty answer before it says yes. We put that package together.
It depends on whether the skylight serves one apartment or the building, and on what the proprietary lease says. What we can do is find out what actually failed and put it in writing with photographs, so the building and the owner are arguing about facts and not guesses. Most of the time the answer is the curb or the flashing, not the glass.
A large part of it is, roughly between 76th and 88th Streets from Roosevelt Avenue up toward Northern Boulevard. Landmarks treats a skylight as a rooftop addition and the test is whether it is visible from the street. On a six story flat roof behind a parapet it almost never is, but we confirm that before anything is ordered.
A replacement in an existing opening on a sound curb is $2,079 installed. A new opening starts at $3,500. On an apartment building the number depends on the roof and the access, so we price it after a visit and the building gets the scope and the price in one package.
Yes, and on a roof under warranty we prefer to. We supply the unit and do the skylight work, the roofer ties the flashing into the membrane, and nobody's warranty gets voided. We supply skylights to Queens roofers and general contractors every week.
All of it, from Roosevelt Avenue up to Northern Boulevard and from Junction Boulevard to the BQE, plus East Elmhurst and Elmhurst next door. That is 11372 and 11370.
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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 11372 and 11370.