Yonkers Roof Pros provides professional skylights and roof hatches in Yonkers, NY for residential and commercial properties across southwest Westchester. On a shallow deck a skylight is not a window in a slope. It is a curb: a framed box built above the membrane, flashed as a wall on four sides, with the unit on top. Almost every skylight leak we open is a curb that was too short.
Height is the whole argument. The membrane has to turn up the curb and terminate above the water line, and the water line on a shallow roof is higher and wider than people expect once the drain slows. Eight inches of curb above the finished surface is a working minimum, and on a roof that has ponded we build higher than that. We measure that height from the finished surface, never from the deck.
Placement matters as much as height, and it runs against instinct. The tempting spot is the middle of the room below, which is often the low area of the roof above. We set curbs uphill of the low point and never inside the drain's catchment, then build a cricket saddle behind the curb so water divides around it instead of pooling upslope. Skip the cricket and you have built a pond with a window in it.
Product follows use. An acrylic dome on a curb is cheap, tough and right over a stair or a bathroom. A flat glass unit looks far better over a living space and needs a properly built curb and a real flashing kit. On the steep street-facing slopes, a deck-mounted unit with the manufacturer's step flashing is correct and a curb is not.
Roof hatches and bulkheads belong in the same conversation because they fail the same way. The gasket perishes, the frame rusts at the corners, and someone seals the joint from above instead of flashing the curb from below. A hatch is a penetration with a lid, and it wants the same detail as a skylight. Hatches want a curb too, and almost none of them have one.
We will tell you when not to buy one. Cutting a new opening through a deck that is already wet, or into a cockloft where the light shaft has to travel two feet through framing, will disappoint you and cost real money. Fix the roof, then decide about the light, and you will be happier with both. A skylight over a wet deck is a second problem rather than a feature.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — cast-iron drain bowls with replacement clamping rings, tapered polyisocyanurate laid to a quarter-inch board layout, lead-lined through-wall scupper sleeves, torch-applied SBS cap sheet turned up the parapet, gravel-stop edge metal set in two courses of flashing cement, sheet-metal coping caps with concealed splice plates — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Yonkers and nearby communities including Mount Vernon, Bronxville, Tuckahoe, Eastchester.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights and roof hatches in Yonkers covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights and roof hatches work in Yonkers, NY. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation yonkers
- curb mounted skylight flat roof
- skylight replacement westchester
- roof hatch installation
- leaking skylight repair yonkers ny
- skylight curb height
- acrylic dome skylight
- light shaft skylight top floor
- skylight flashing kit
- bulkhead door replacement
- smoke hatch roof
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Yonkers services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights and roof hatches
The difference between skylights and roof hatches that lasts and skylights and roof hatches that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with cast-iron drain bowls with replacement clamping rings, tapered polyisocyanurate laid to a quarter-inch board layout, lead-lined through-wall scupper sleeves, torch-applied SBS cap sheet turned up the parapet, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Yonkers job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in southwest Westchester means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do skylights and roof hatches outside Yonkers
Yonkers Roof Pros covers Yonkers and the surrounding communities of southwest Westchester. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
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- Skylights and Roof Hatches in Tuckahoe, NY — Westchester County, population 7,084
- Skylights and Roof Hatches in Eastchester, NY — Westchester County, population 20,901
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Start on the Yonkers Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Yonkers Chooses Yonkers Roof Pros
- ✓We settle one question before any other: does this roof still drain. The city's own re-roofing permit hangs two code allowances on that word, and your price hangs on it too.
- ✓A hose test on the low corner with the chalk line and the drain-down time written onto the estimate, rather than a slope guessed at from the sidewalk.
- ✓The drain bowl, clamping ring, strainer and the leader inside the wall chase are itemized apart from the membrane, because they fail on a completely different clock.
- ✓Where the street face is shingle and the deck behind it is membrane, you get two systems, two prices and two service lives, never one figure for the address.
The standards behind skylights and roof hatches
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights and roof hatches work we do in Yonkers follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every skylights and roof hatches project in Yonkers gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free skylights and roof hatches free estimate in Yonkers, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.