Birmingham Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Birmingham, AL for residential and commercial properties across Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. We fit skylights and we turn down more skylight work than we take. Take a pre-war Birmingham house with plank decking, rafters at wide spacing and a stack already through the plane. A new skylight there is a second permanent penetration in a roof short of good ones.
The framing is the first obstacle and it is a real one. Older rafters here are often true two-by-four or two-by-six at irregular spacing, cut for a lighter covering than anything modern. Opening one to take a unit means a header, doubled trimmers and sometimes an engineer's opinion, and that work happens above a plaster ceiling that will not survive it politely. There is a specific request we always decline.
When a stack comes out below the deck, the opening left behind looks like a free skylight site, and it is not. That opening sits in the worst part of the plane hydraulically, usually mid-slope with water converging on it. The framing around an old chimney chase is cut and patched rather than continuous. We deck it in kind and shingle over it. For most people asking, the honest downsell is a light tube.
A ten or fourteen inch shaft dropped through a rafter bay needs no header and costs a fraction of a curb-mounted unit. It delivers a surprising amount of light into a hall or a bathroom, and it puts a small round penetration in the field instead of a large rectangular one. We fit a lot of them. Where a real skylight is right, we install curb-mounted deck-sealed units with the manufacturer's own step flashing kit.
A self-adhered membrane wraps the curb, and anything wider than two feet gets a cricket. Never a site-fabricated flashing, never a self-flashed unit set in mastic on an old plank deck. Two tubes into a dark hallway typically costs less than a single curb-mounted unit once the framing work is counted honestly. If you have a skylight that leaks, replacement usually beats repair.
Units from before the mid-1990s have spent thirty years cycling, the seals and the gasket are done, and the flashing kit was likely wrong at the start. We will price a repair honestly and then tell you why the replacement is the better number. Flashing kits are matched to the covering: a shingle kit on a tile roof, or the reverse, is a leak with a warranty sticker on it.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, sheet-metal thimble covers sealed at abandoned flue openings, corbelled brick stacks standing proud of the ridge — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Birmingham and nearby communities including Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Homewood.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Birmingham covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Birmingham, AL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Birmingham 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 two-piece counterflashing cut into a raked bed joint, a poured chimney crown with an overhang and a drip kerf, a framed cricket above stacks wider than thirty inches, self-adhered flashing membrane turned up the brick face, 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 Birmingham 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 Jefferson County and the Birmingham district 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 Birmingham
Birmingham Roof Pros covers Birmingham and the surrounding communities of Jefferson County and the Birmingham district. 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 Hoover, AL — Jefferson and Shelby counties, population 92,606
- Skylights in Vestavia Hills, AL — Jefferson County, population 39,102
- Skylights in Alabaster, AL — Shelby County, population 33,284
- Skylights in Homewood, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,414
- Skylights in Trussville, AL — Jefferson and St. Clair counties, population 26,123
- Skylights in Bessemer, AL — Jefferson County, population 26,019
Start on the Birmingham Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Birmingham Chooses Birmingham Roof Pros
- ✓We settle the chimney before we price the covering, because on a pre-war Birmingham house that is the item that moves the number
- ✓Every dead flue gets three priced options — rebuild and recrown, cap and keep, or remove below the deck — and we say which we would choose
- ✓Nothing comes down until the fuel question is answered in writing, and a live appliance is re-vented by a licensed mechanical contractor first
- ✓Flashing is two pieces of fabricated metal cut into a raked bed joint, never one piece bedded in sealant
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Birmingham 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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.