Kokomo Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Kokomo, IN for residential and commercial properties across Howard County and north central Indiana. Every skylight is a hole in the roof with a warranty attached, and on the roofs we work on in Kokomo a meaningful number of them should simply be closed. Roofers do not usually commit that to paper, so the reasoning is worth setting out.
The units in this housing stock are mostly of one generation. Acrylic bubbles on site-built wooden curbs, installed between the middle 1970s and the middle 1990s, flashed with sealant and hope. The acrylic has crazed, the curb has absorbed water at the corners, and the flashing was never a manufactured kit. Those units are not repairable in any meaningful sense and they leak on their own schedule.
If the room genuinely depends on the light, replace with a modern deck-mounted unit and the manufacturer's own step and head flashing kit, laced course by course into the shingles. Never a curb rebuilt in dimensional lumber and sealed at the top. The kit is the product; the glass is almost incidental. Laminated glass with an insulated unit is the right specification for this climate, not another acrylic dome.
If the room does not depend on it, and often it does not, deleting the skylight is the better purchase. A north-facing hall or a bathroom with a window already in the wall gets very little from a two-foot opening at the end of a six-foot drywall shaft. Framing the opening out, decking it solid, insulating the cavity and finishing the ceiling below removes a permanent liability from a roof that has to last twenty years.
We will not cut a new skylight into a roof that has more than a few years on it. The flashing kit ties into the courses around it, so a new unit in an eight-year-old roof means disturbing shingles that have lost their flexibility, and the seal you get is worse than the one you would get at a tear-off. If you want light, wait for the reroof and do it then.
A solar tube is the middle answer and it is underrated here. One small, factory-flashed penetration, a reflective shaft, real daylight in a hallway or a windowless bath, and none of the framing work or heat loss of a full skylight. It is the option we recommend most often when somebody says the upstairs is dark.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — orphaned chimney stacks cut below the sheathing plane, B-vent collars pulled and the opening decked solid, powered attic fans deleted and their curbs framed over, annular-shank deck refastening on a twelve-inch schedule, one-piece lead pipe flashings instead of thermoplastic boots, penetration counts recorded per square at tear-off — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Kokomo and nearby communities including Greentown, Russiaville, Sharpsville, Windfall City.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Kokomo covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Kokomo, IN. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight replacement Kokomo
- skylight leak repair
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight
- skylight removal and deck over
- solar tube light
- skylight flashing kit
- skylight condensation
- skylight shaft drywall
- velux skylight install
- skylight replacement cost
- old skylight problems
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Kokomo 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 orphaned chimney stacks cut below the sheathing plane, B-vent collars pulled and the opening decked solid, powered attic fans deleted and their curbs framed over, annular-shank deck refastening on a twelve-inch schedule, 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 Kokomo 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 Howard County and north central Indiana 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 Kokomo
Kokomo Roof Pros covers Kokomo and the surrounding communities of Howard County and north central Indiana. 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 Greentown, IN — Howard County, population 2,405
- Skylights in Russiaville, IN — Howard County, population 1,321
- Skylights in Sharpsville, IN — Tipton County, population 552
- Skylights in Windfall City, IN — Tipton County, population 687
- Skylights in Kempton, IN — Tipton County, population 286
- Skylights in Peru, IN — Miami County, population 10,960
Start on the Kokomo Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Kokomo Chooses Kokomo Roof Pros
- ✓Nobody from the city will ever climb your ladder, so we photograph every stage of the tear-off and hand you the whole file at the end.
- ✓We count the roof penetrations before we price the job and tell you which ones are dead and can simply be closed and decked over.
- ✓We will read a 2016 storm roof honestly, including the times the answer is that it has years left in it and you should wait.
- ✓Deck replacement is quoted at a published per-sheet rate rather than buried inside an allowance you have no way to check afterwards.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Kokomo 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 Kokomo 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 free estimate in Kokomo, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.