Recent skylight work
Rego Park is three different buildings on the same map. Along Queens Boulevard and 63rd Drive there are the 1930s Art Deco co-op buildings, six and seven storeys with flat roofs and a board that has to say yes. On the side streets there are attached and semi attached brick row houses, flat roofed, two rooms deep, with a middle that never sees daylight. And in Cord Meyer there are the detached and semi detached houses on real lots with a shallow pitch to the roof.
On the row houses and the co-ops the job is a curb mounted glass unit on an insulated curb, from $2,079 installed where the curb is sound, or a new opening from $3,500. In Cord Meyer the shallow pitch sometimes allows a deck mounted unit with a step flashing kit instead, which sits lower and looks better from the street. We tell you which one your roof wants after we see it, not before.
The co-op buildings are the part people dread and they should not. The board wants a certificate of insurance, a written scope and a straight answer on what happens to the roof warranty. We have put that package together enough times on Queens Boulevard that it is routine, and we send it in a form the managing agent can actually forward.
Leaking skylight in Rego Park? 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.
With the board's approval, yes, and the approval is the real work. The board will want a certificate of insurance naming the building, a written scope, and an answer on whether the roof warranty survives. We put that package together and send it in a form the managing agent can forward without rewriting it.
A curb mounted glass unit set on an insulated curb. The roofs on the attached and semi attached houses off 63rd Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard are flat, and a deck mounted unit built for a pitched roof does not belong on one. Replacement on a sound curb is $2,079 installed.
It can. A shallow pitch sometimes takes a deck mounted unit with a step flashing kit, which sits lower on the roof and reads better from the street than a curb. Below a certain pitch the deck mount stops being the right call and we go back to a curb. That is a judgement made on the roof, not from the office.
You can, and we will fit one if that is what you want. The honest comparison is that acrylic yellows and crazes over the years in full sun, where glass stays clear, is quieter in rain, insulates better and carries a factory seal warranty. Most people who see both pick the glass. We will price either.
A straightforward replacement on a sound curb is a one day job. If the curb has to be rebuilt it can run into a second day, and we tell you that when we see the curb rather than after we have the old unit off.
All of it. Cord Meyer, the blocks off 63rd Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard, the Queens Boulevard co-op buildings and the streets down toward the LIE. That is 11374, and Forest Hills is next door. Our shop is in Brooklyn and Rego Park is a straight run up the Interboro.
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