Scranton Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Scranton, PA for residential and commercial properties across the Lackawanna Valley. Skylights are not the problem people think. Old skylights are. A curb-mounted plastic dome from decades ago with site-built flashing around it will leak eventually, and no volume of sealant changes where that story ends. Which one you have decides whether this is a repair conversation or a replacement one.
A current deck-mounted unit fitted with its own maker's flashing set is a different object entirely. Pressed metal at head, sides and sill, an adhered collar bonded around the opening before any of it, and sealed laminated glazing. Built into the covering instead of perched on it, the unit ages at roughly the same rate as the shingles around it. That difference is the whole of the argument.
What we insist on before quoting one in Scranton is opening the ceiling to see the framing. Pre-war roofs here are commonly true-dimension rafters on tight centers with no engineered header anywhere in them, and cutting one out is a structural job rather than a carpentry one. We will not price the hole from the outside and hope the inside cooperates.
On double blocks and three-family houses there is a second question. A light shaft dropping from the roof through an upper floor can cut across a fire separation between dwelling units, which is a code problem before it is ever a leak problem. We check where that separation runs before agreeing to a location, and sometimes the answer is that this room cannot have one.
The honest downsell belongs here. If the goal is daylight in a windowless bathroom or a dark hallway, a tubular device is much cheaper, needs a far smaller opening and seals with one collar. You get no view out of it and no airflow through it. Want either of those and you should buy a proper skylight and buy a good one. Otherwise take the tube and spend the difference elsewhere.
On a replacement the old upstand comes out with the old unit. Setting a new skylight onto the frame that just leaked keeps the exact plane that failed, and converts a factory-warranted assembly back into something built on site by hand. If the covering is coming off regardless, changing units during that tear-off is a small addition to a job already staged rather than its own trip and its own minimum charge.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, W-profile valley metal formed with a raised center rib, eave intake cut into a boxed cornice that never had a soffit — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Scranton and nearby communities including Dunmore, Carbondale, Old Forge, Pittston.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Scranton covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Scranton, PA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation
- skylight replacement
- leaking skylight repair
- deck mounted skylight
- curb mounted skylight
- skylight flashing kit
- tubular daylight device
- sun tunnel installation
- venting skylight
- skylight during reroof
- rafter framing for skylights
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Scranton 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 a DEP mine viewer result recorded with the map sheet number, square-edge board sheathing gauged for nail withdrawal before tear-off, SBS-modified laminated shingles chosen for cold-weather flexibility, self-adhered membrane lapped up the party wall of a double block, 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 Scranton 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 Lackawanna Valley 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 Scranton
Scranton Roof Pros covers Scranton and the surrounding communities of the Lackawanna Valley. 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 Dunmore, PA — Lackawanna County, population 14,042
- Skylights in Carbondale, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,828
- Skylights in Old Forge, PA — Lackawanna County, population 8,497
- Skylights in Pittston, PA — Luzerne County, population 7,591
- Skylights in Archbald, PA — Lackawanna County, population 7,297
- Skylights in Blakely, PA — Lackawanna County, population 6,657
Start on the Scranton Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Scranton Chooses Scranton Roof Pros
- ✓We look your address up on the department's mine viewer before we quote, because in this valley the answer changes whether a roof is the right thing to buy this month at all.
- ✓Pennsylvania sells subsidence cover separately instead of writing it into your policy the way the statute does in Illinois, so here the first question is whether any coverage exists, not which of two perils to file under.
- ✓On a house with a mapped void and no policy we will hand you the department's phone number and leave without a signed contract, because forty-one dollars a year outranks anything on our price list.
- ✓We refuse to coat over a split detail. Beyond hiding evidence, unrepaired damage can block the Commonwealth from issuing a policy at all until the repairs are made as its board directs.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Scranton 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 Scranton 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 Scranton, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.