Recent skylight work
Windsor Terrace does not roof like brownstone Brooklyn. Between the park and the cemetery the housing turns into semi-detached and detached frame houses with real pitched roofs, asphalt shingle, dormers and attics that people have been turning into bedrooms for thirty years. There are attached brick rows in the mix too, but the pitched roof is what makes this neighborhood different to quote.
On a slope the unit is deck mounted with a factory flashing kit matched to the roof covering and sized to the rafter bay. That flashing kit is the whole job. Caulk around a skylight on a shingle roof is a leak with a delay on it. A replacement starts at $2,079 installed and a new opening starts at $3,500.
Most of the work we do here is attic and top floor rooms that need light and, quite often, a legal way out. A roof window on a slope opens wide enough to clean from inside and on an attic conversion it can serve as the egress opening the code asks for, which is worth knowing before the framing goes in rather than after.
A roof window opens wide enough to reach through, so you can clean the outside from inside, and on an attic conversion it can serve as an egress opening. On a pitched Windsor Terrace roof it is usually the better choice and it sits right on the slope.
Light, ventilation and, if it is going to be a bedroom, a way out. A venting roof window can cover all three at once if it is sized and placed correctly, and it is far cheaper to put in while the framing is open than to cut in afterwards. Talk to us before the insulation goes up.
No. It gets a factory step flashing kit that weaves into the shingle courses so the water runs over it the way it runs over the rest of the roof. Every deck mounted unit we install includes that kit. If somebody quoted you a skylight on a shingle roof with no flashing kit, that is the part to ask about.
That is the ideal time and it saves money. The flashing integrates cleanly into fresh courses and there is no tearing back of good shingle. If your roofer is already scheduled, put us in touch and we will work to their sequence.
Windsor Terrace from Prospect Park West across to Greenwood, including Sherman, Windsor, Vanderbilt Street and the blocks by the reservoir. Zip codes 11218 and 11215.
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We cover every part of the borough. See skylights in Brooklyn, our published prices, or NYC permits and landmark rules. Serving 11218 and 11215.