West Allis Roof Pros provides professional skylights in West Allis, WI for residential and commercial properties across Milwaukee and eastern Waukesha counties. This is the one product we push harder here than anywhere else, and the reason is lot width. Houses on this grid sit a few feet apart, so the side windows of the middle rooms look directly at somebody else's siding. Those rooms are dark at noon in June.
A skylight or a tubular daylight device is the only realistic way to get daylight into a room whose side walls have nothing to look at. On a bungalow the candidates announce themselves once you walk through. The upstairs bedroom under the sloped ceiling, the stair landing, the middle bathroom with one frosted window, and the kitchen tucked at the back of the plan.
The half story makes the tubular option unusually cheap here. A tube can run through the triangular knee wall space and down into the ceiling below without anybody framing a shaft through finished rooms, and that shaft is the expensive part of a conventional skylight in a house built like this. It is frequently a one day job on a roof we already have open anyway.
Where a real skylight goes in, we build a curb. Site built, standing well above the finished roof plane, wrapped in self-adhered membrane before any metal is fitted, then a step flashed kit with a head flashing lapped under the course above and shingles returned over it in order. Deck mounted units set flat onto bare sheathing are the ones we end up coming back to replace.
The failure mode people call about is usually not a leak at all. Glass runs cold, the room below is humid, and moisture condenses on the interior face of the unit, then tracks down the shaft looking exactly like rain got in. The tell is timing rather than location. Condensation shows up on clear cold nights and gets noticeably worse whenever the bathroom below is in use. Rain has nothing to do with it at all.
When that is the diagnosis, a new skylight is the wrong purchase. Insulating and air sealing the shaft where it meets the ceiling fixes most of them for a fraction of the price, and a bath fan that actually vents outdoors fixes the rest. We tell people that even though a replacement would be worth considerably more to us.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a probe cut opened at the rake to count existing roofing layers, 1x8 board sheathing laid with gaps over rafters at 24 inches, a fire-rated soffit board on the setback side of an alley garage, rigid chutes carried up behind a four-foot knee wall, site roll-formed standing seam fed up from the alley apron, a framed saddle set behind a shed dormer to split the flow — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve West Allis and nearby communities including Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, Greenfield, Franklin.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in West Allis covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in West Allis, WI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation west allis
- skylight leak repair west allis wi
- skylight replacement west allis
- curb mounted skylight milwaukee county
- sun tunnel installation west allis wi
- bungalow skylight west allis
- skylight flashing kit west allis
- skylight condensation west allis
- dormer skylight west allis wisconsin
- skylight glass replacement west allis
- roof window west allis wisconsin
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our West Allis 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 probe cut opened at the rake to count existing roofing layers, 1x8 board sheathing laid with gaps over rafters at 24 inches, a fire-rated soffit board on the setback side of an alley garage, rigid chutes carried up behind a four-foot knee wall, 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 West Allis 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 Milwaukee and eastern Waukesha 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 West Allis
West Allis Roof Pros covers West Allis and the surrounding communities of Milwaukee and eastern Waukesha 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 Milwaukee, WI — Milwaukee County, population 577,222
- Skylights in Wauwatosa, WI — Milwaukee County, population 48,387
- Skylights in Greenfield, WI — Milwaukee County, population 37,803
- Skylights in Franklin, WI — Milwaukee County, population 36,816
- Skylights in Oak Creek, WI — Milwaukee County, population 36,497
- Skylights in South Milwaukee, WI — Milwaukee County, population 20,795
Start on the West Allis Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why West Allis Chooses West Allis Roof Pros
- ✓We open a probe cut at the rake and photograph the layer count before quoting, because West Allis allows two layers and inspects none of them
- ✓We will not install a third layer on any house, and we will tell you plainly that nobody from the city would ever have caught it
- ✓Every estimate names where the container sits and which slopes get worked from a rope, because a lot without a driveway changes the job
- ✓Ventilation chutes go in behind the knee walls while the roof is open, since the finished half story blocks the path the city bulletin assumes
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in West Allis 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 West Allis 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 West Allis, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.