Flat and pitched roof skylights that pull daylight into rooms that never get any.
Skylight prices are driven by the size of the unit, the roof it is going into and whether an opening already exists. Dropping a new unit into a kerb that is already there is a modest job. Forming a new opening in a flat roof, building the upstand and making the covering good around it is a bigger one, and the roof covering itself decides how much of that work there is.
We survey the roof free of charge, check the structure and the falls, and give you a written price that includes the unit, the delivery, the fitting and the weathering. Weathering is the part that matters most on a skylight, and it is the part that gets skimped when a price looks suspiciously cheap.
A modest rooflight over a landing is a different job to a long unit over a kitchen. The glass weight decides the fixing and the handling.
Fitting into an existing kerb is quicker. Forming a new opening means cutting, trimming the structure and building an upstand.
Felt, single ply, GRP and tile all detail differently around a unit. The covering decides how the weathering is made good.
A fixed unit is simpler and cheaper. An opening or electric unit adds hardware, and in some rooms it is worth it for ventilation.
Roof work lives or dies on the detail around the edges. Here is how we run a skylight job.
We get up and look at the roof rather than pricing off a photograph. Structure, falls, covering condition and where the unit will do the most good for daylight all get checked.
One price for the unit, the opening, the upstand, the fitting and the weathering. If the roof covering is at the end of its life we say so at the survey, because putting a new skylight into a tired roof is money badly spent.
Units are ordered to the surveyed size. We confirm the lead time in writing and keep an eye on the weather window for fitting. Delivery is free.
Opening formed, upstand built where needed, unit set, then the covering dressed and sealed around it. We clear the debris off the roof and out of the room below before we leave.
A properly detailed one will not. Leaks almost always come from the upstand height or the way the covering is dressed around the unit, not from the glass. That detailing is exactly where we spend the time, and it is why we survey the roof in person first.
Yes, and flat roofs are where skylights make the biggest difference because there is no other way of getting daylight in. We build the upstand to suit the covering and set the unit with the fall running the right way.
Far more than a window of the same size in a wall, because it faces the open sky rather than a fence or a neighbour. One well placed unit will usually transform a dark kitchen or a windowless landing.
If the room has ventilation already, fixed is cheaper, simpler and has less to go wrong. In a kitchen or a shower room, an opening unit earns its keep by clearing steam and heat.
Ten years on the whole unit, frame, glass and any hardware. We also make the weathering good as part of the job rather than leaving it to a roofer to finish.
