Recent skylight work
Woodside is attached and semi detached brick two family houses with flat roofs, block after block of them between Roosevelt Avenue and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, with apartment buildings along the 7 line and the garden blocks of Boulevard Gardens on the north side. The houses are narrow, they are two rooms deep, and the stair that runs up the middle of them has no window on any wall. That stair is why most people here call us.
On a flat roof over a narrow house, a curb mounted glass unit sitting over the stairwell changes the whole house, because the light drops down the stair and reaches both floors instead of one room. Replacement on a sound curb is $2,079 installed and a new opening is from $3,500. Where the space is a small bath or a closet sized hall rather than a stair, a sun tunnel does the same job for less: a reflective tube from a small roof dome down to a ceiling diffuser, from $370.
A lot of Woodside houses have a rented top floor, and the question we get asked before price is whether the tenant has to move out. They do not. The work happens on the roof, the inside disturbance is the ceiling opening and that gets closed the same day on a straightforward job.
Leaking skylight in Woodside? 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.
No. Nearly all of the work happens on the roof. Inside, the disturbance is the ceiling opening and the shaft, and on a straightforward replacement that is opened and closed the same day. We cover the floor and the furniture and we take the debris with us.
That is the single most common job we do in Woodside. A unit set over the stairwell on the flat roof drops light down the full height of the stair, so it reaches both floors rather than lighting one ceiling. It makes more difference to how a narrow house feels than anything else you can do for the money.
Woodside has no New York City landmark district, so Landmarks review is not normally part of the job here. If your building sits in a listed complex we will check what applies to it before you order anything rather than assuming.
Yes. On a flat roof the unit has to sit up on a curb so the glass is above the water line, and the curb should be insulated or you will get condensation running down the inside of it in winter and you will think the skylight is leaking. A unit laid flat into a flat roof is a leak waiting to happen.
From $2,079 installed where the existing curb is sound, which covers the unit, setting and sealing, taking the old one away, the water test and all the labour. If the curb has rotted it has to be rebuilt and that is priced separately once we have seen it. We do not quote a curb we have not looked at.
All of it. The blocks off Roosevelt and Northern, Boulevard Gardens, Woodside Houses and the streets down toward the BQE. That is 11377, with Sunnyside on one side and Jackson Heights on the other.
Sunnyside · Jackson Heights · Astoria · Long Island City · Maspeth
We cover every part of the borough. See skylights in Queens, our published prices, or NYC permits and landmark rules. Serving 11377.