Louisville Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Louisville, KY for residential and commercial properties across the Kentucky side of the Louisville metro. We install skylights and we talk a fair number of people out of them, often in the same conversation. The reason is specific to the houses here, and it comes down to where the light is wanted and what happens to sit above that room.
The rooms that want light in a Louisville house are the middle rooms, and in a great many of these houses the middle or rear room sits under the shallow addition roof rather than under the steep main roof. A curb-mounted unit on a plane under three in twelve is a dam standing directly in the drainage path, with water arriving slowly at its uphill side and nowhere obvious to go around it.
You can build that detail so it works. It needs a properly framed cricket behind the curb, fully adhered membrane carried up all four sides, and a soldered or welded pan beneath the unit. It costs several times what the same skylight costs on a steep slope, and the consequence if any part of it is imperfect is water inside a finished ceiling. We will quote it, and say first that we think it a poor trade.
The alternative we push instead is a daylight tube. Ten or fourteen inches of reflective shaft dropped through one small penetration, flashed much the way a plumbing boot is, and it delivers a startling amount of light. It costs a fraction, it travels laterally from the steep main roof to wherever the room actually is, and it almost never leaks because there is no curb and no uphill face for water to pile against.
On steep slopes we are happy to fit real skylights and we fit deck-mounted units using the manufacturer's own step-flashing kit rather than a curb built on site and sealed with mastic. Ice and water membrane goes around all four sides regardless of whether the kit includes it, because the kit assumes a climate with less freeze-thaw than the one this valley delivers between December and March.
If yours is being replaced during a re-roof, replace the unit rather than refitting it. A twenty-year-old skylight set back into a new roof will outlive its seals long before the covering does, and reopening a finished roof to change it three winters later costs a great deal more than the unit.
Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — gutter apron behind the eave course, kick-out diverters at roof-to-wall terminations, self-adhered modified bitumen on shallow planes, tapered polyisocyanurate crickets and saddles, twenty-four-gauge standing seam pans — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Louisville and nearby communities including Jeffersontown, Mount Washington, St. Matthews, Shelbyville.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Louisville covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Louisville, KY. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation louisville
- skylight leak repair
- curb mounted skylight replacement
- deck mounted skylight install
- sun tunnel tubular skylight
- velux skylight installer ky
- skylight flashing kit
- skylight replacement during reroof
- condensation on skylight
- skylight for dark hallway
- skylight on low slope 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 Louisville services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights
The difference between skylights that lasts and skylights that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with gutter apron behind the eave course, kick-out diverters at roof-to-wall terminations, self-adhered modified bitumen on shallow planes, tapered polyisocyanurate crickets and saddles, 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 Louisville 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 the Kentucky side of the Louisville metro 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 outside Louisville
Louisville Roof Pros covers Louisville and the surrounding communities of the Kentucky side of the Louisville metro. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Skylights in Jeffersontown, KY — Jefferson County, population 28,474
- Skylights in Mount Washington, KY — Bullitt County, population 18,090
- Skylights in St. Matthews, KY — Jefferson County, population 17,534
- Skylights in Shelbyville, KY — Shelby County, population 17,282
- Skylights in Shively, KY — Jefferson County, population 15,636
- Skylights in Shepherdsville, KY — Bullitt County, population 14,201
Start on the Louisville Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (877) 759-4434 and describe the job.
Why Louisville Chooses Louisville Roof Pros
- ✓We inspect the covering and the discharge as two separate questions, because in this city they fail for different reasons and at different times.
- ✓Every gutter run is hose tested from the far end before we leave, so you watch it drain instead of reading about it.
- ✓We will tell you when the leak you called about is an outlet or a leader rather than the roof, and we will not quote you a roof to fix it.
- ✓Low-slope rear additions get modified bitumen or a metal pan, and we decline to shingle anything under three in twelve.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Louisville 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 project in Louisville 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 (877) 759-4434 for a free skylights free estimate in Louisville, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.