Skylights, rooflights and roof windows.
A skylight or roof window brings light in, but it is also a hole in your roof. The junction around it decides whether things stay dry.
Four simple steps
Request a quoteMeasuring and inspecting
I come out, measure your roof and look at exactly what it needs.
A keen quote
You get a clear quote with no obligation. No surprises afterwards.
We build your roof
Once you agree, we schedule the work for a time that suits you.
Handed over watertight
The roof is handed over fully watertight, with a 10-year guarantee.
Condensation or a crack in your dome?
Give me a call. Often the dome is not the problem but the junction around it, and that is a much smaller job.
What this work includes
- Fitting and replacing skylights
- Rooflights on larger roofs
- New upstands made to measure
- Roofing carried through into the rebate
- Ventilation outlets and vents
- Replacement without opening the whole roof
Skylights and roof windows, and what you notice of it
Skylights and roof windows
I fit and replace skylights and rooflights on flat roofs, with an upstand that is high enough and roofing that runs neatly right into the rebate. An existing dome that has discoloured or cracked can be replaced on its own, without opening up the whole roof.
The signs
Condensation between the double skin, hairline cracks, a dome that has yellowed, or water running in along the edge. That last one is usually the upstand or the junction, not the dome itself.
Dome or junction
When water comes in at a rooflight, the dome itself is rarely the cause. Usually it is the upstand beneath it, the rebate the covering meets, or the decking around it that has gone soft after years of moisture. That makes quite a difference to the job: repairing a junction is a smaller job than replacing a dome, and that smaller again than renewing the decking around it. So I look first at what it really is.
What people ask about this
Not necessarily. Often it is not the dome that leaks but the junction around it: the upstand, the rebate, or the roofing that meets it. So that is what I look at first.
Then the double wall is no longer airtight. The dome holds back less heat and goes cloudy. Replacing it is the only answer.
Usually yes. I make the opening, fit an upstand to size and finish the roofing right into the rebate.
What kind of roof is it?
Discoloured, yellowed or cracked: a single dome can be replaced without opening up the roof.
An opening is made in the roof, an upstand built to size, and the roofing runs right into the rebate.
More light over a longer line. It calls for a solid upstand and a careful junction along the full length.
A flat version, often walk-on or with an opening mechanism. The junction decides whether it stays dry.
If the dome is still sound but the upstand beneath it is rotten, I replace only that and put the dome back.
If the space below is used differently, the opening can be closed: decking in and the covering over the top.
Request a quote for skylights and roof windows, no obligation.
Fill in the form or give me a call. I come out, measure it up and tell you what is needed. A 10-year guarantee on watertightness, and you are tied to nothing.
Lead work
Lead flashing at the chimney, the wall and the roof window, where leaks most often start.
Roof leaks
Tracing the leak is part of the job. Urgent work is scheduled as soon as possible.
Roofs with solar panels
A roof made ready for panels, or repairs to roofs that already carry them.