Recent skylight work
Westchester skylight work leans custom: larger homes with great rooms wanting banks of skylights with combi-flashing, copper pan-flashed units on slate-and-shake colonials in Scarsdale and Bronxville, roof windows turning third floors into offices, and architectural glass on additions where the skylight is the design. That top end of the catalog is where we live, engineered proposals with full specifications, submittal-ready.
Leaking skylight in Westchester? 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. Leaks are the number one reason Westchester calls us. Water dripping from a skylight, a stain on the ceiling of a great room, a drip through a bank of joined units after a storm: none of that tells you what actually failed. It could be the flashing, the pan, a seal, or a unit that has reached the end of its life. 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 installed properly, with copper pan flashing where the roof calls for it. Active leaks go to the front of the schedule.
The standard work gets the same treatment as everywhere we operate: real prices from the current book with tax included, flashing always in the quote, a 10-year No Leak Warranty behind our installations, and supply-only sales for county contractors. The Skylight Finder covers stock sizes; for custom, send dimensions and get a same-week quote.
Call the skylight company first. A roofer sees a roof problem and caulks around the unit; it holds for a season and comes back. A skylight specialist can tell you in one visit whether it is the flashing, the curb or the unit itself, and what the honest fix costs. If the roof around it turns out to be the problem, we will tell you that too.
If it drips on cold clear mornings and stops when it warms up, it is usually condensation on an old single-pane or acrylic unit, and the cure is a modern insulated glass skylight, not sealant. If it comes in during or right after rain, it is a leak, and the assessment tells you where.
Usually not for long. Older units fail at the frame, the seals and the flashing, not at one spot. We will tell you if yours is the rare exception, but the right answer on most of them is a new unit on a proper curb or flashing kit, and we price that on the spot.
Active leaks go to the front of the schedule, and our phone is answered evenings and weekends, not just office hours. Call (718) 646-7053 any time, tell us it is leaking now, and it is flagged to us the same day so we can get someone out in Westchester to look at it.
As a bank of units joined with combi flashing rather than one enormous piece of glass. It spans the framing sensibly, it looks better from inside and out, and the multiple skylight discount applies. Past roughly fifty inches in each direction, a bank is usually the right answer.
Yes, and it changes the detail rather than ruling the job out. Copper pan flashed units are the right family on slate and shake colonials, with the flashing built into the unit. Slate work needs care taken with the surrounding field, which is part of what we look at on the visit.
Send us the dimensions and you get a quote back the same week. Custom and architectural glass is quoted per project with full specifications, submittal ready, which is the paperwork your architect will ask for anyway.
Yes. Units spec'd from your plans or field dimensions, rough openings and curb dimensions confirmed, correct flashing system included, delivered to the job. Published prices are the starting point.
The units are rated for it and the flashing systems are built for it. What actually decides it on a low slope or flat section is curb height, because glass sitting down in melt water and snow is where trouble starts. On a pitched roof it is the flashing kit, which is always in our number.
The county. Yonkers, Bronxville, Scarsdale, White Plains, Rye, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, New Rochelle, Pelham, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Chappaqua, Armonk, Katonah and Bedford.