Madison Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Madison, AL for residential and commercial properties across Madison and Limestone counties. If your skylight leaks, resealing it is not a repair. It is a delay you pay for twice. We replace the unit and its flashing kit together, or we remove it and frame the hole shut, and those are honestly the only two options we will quote.
The reason is how the units are built. A skylight seals at a factory gasket between glass and frame, and that gasket has a service life measured in a couple of decades. Once it fails, no bead of sealant applied from the outside reaches the leak path, because the water is already inside the frame before it appears on your ceiling. Sealant applied on top of a failed unit buys a season at most.
Replacement means the unit and the manufacturer's step-flashing kit for your roof covering, installed together while the surrounding shingles are open. The kit interleaves with the courses the way step flashing does at a wall. Where a Madison roof has a skylight sitting on a caulked aluminum pan with shingles cemented over it, that is a retrofit and it is why it leaks.
Sometimes the right answer is to delete it. Plenty of 1990s Madison houses have a skylight over a bathroom or a stairwell that nobody would install today, in a shaft that has been staining for years. Framing it out, decking over and matching the shingles costs a fraction of a new unit, and a solar tube elsewhere on the slope will give you the light back for less.
If you are reroofing and the skylights are older than about fifteen years, replace them in the same operation. The flashing has to come out for the reroof regardless, and doing the units then costs a fraction of coming back in three years to open a brand-new roof. We will put both numbers on the estimate so you can see the difference. Opening a brand-new roof to change a unit is money nobody enjoys spending twice.
Fogged glass between the panes is a separate problem from a leak and it is worth knowing which you have. Fogging is a failed insulating glass seal, it is a comfort and appearance issue, and on many units it is covered by the manufacturer long after the roof is out of anyone's warranty. We check the date stamp before we quote.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — split neoprene plumbing-vent collars, asphalt roof cement troweled over step flashing, kickout flashing at the low corner of a sidewall, painted steel drip edge at eaves and rakes, gutter apron tucked behind the fascia board, spike-and-ferrule gutter nails backed out of chewed fascia — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Madison and nearby communities including Huntsville, Athens, Decatur, Harvest.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Madison covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Madison, AL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight replacement madison al
- skylight leak repair
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight install
- sun tunnel installation madison
- skylight flashing kit
- skylight removal and reroof
- fogged skylight glass
- solar tube alabama
- skylight shaft repair
- skylight repair madison county
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Madison 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 split neoprene plumbing-vent collars, asphalt roof cement troweled over step flashing, kickout flashing at the low corner of a sidewall, painted steel drip edge at eaves and rakes, 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 Madison 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 Madison and Limestone counties 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 Madison
Madison Roof Pros covers Madison and the surrounding communities of Madison and Limestone counties. 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 Huntsville, AL — Madison County, population 215,006
- Skylights in Athens, AL — Limestone County, population 25,406
- Skylights in Decatur, AL — Morgan County, population 57,938
- Skylights in Harvest, AL — Madison County, population 5,893
- Skylights in Meridianville, AL — Madison County, population 8,209
- Skylights in Moores Mill, AL — Madison County, population 6,729
Start on the Madison Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Madison Chooses Madison Roof Pros
- ✓Alabama licenses roofing at $2,500 and everything else residential at $10,000, so we tell you which side of that line your job falls on and exactly what it means for you.
- ✓Most of what we find on a Madison roof is somebody's old sub-$2,500 fix, and undoing cement over step flashing or a patched vent collar is usually the real work.
- ✓We check your completion date against Alabama's seven-year statute of repose first, because after that runs out nobody but you is on the hook for the building.
- ✓Coating a steep-slope asphalt roof is a refusal here rather than a line item, because the shingle is not a substrate and the sale exists mainly because it stays cheap.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.