Metairie Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Metairie, LA for residential and commercial properties across Jefferson Parish. A skylight is a hole in the part of the house that is supposed to have no holes, so it is worth being deliberate about. In Metairie there is a second reason for care: on a documented roof, a skylight is an accessory component with paperwork attached.
Timing is the whole game. Put skylights in during the reroof or do not put them in. Cutting a new opening into a finished roof means breaking the underlayment plane that was just photographed, and if the roof carries a designation it means a fresh evaluation of the affected area. Done during the tear-off it is a modest add. Done eighteen months later it is a different kind of job.
On the units themselves, we install curb-mounted deck-sealed assemblies with the manufacturer's own flashing kit and nothing improvised. Skylight leaks are overwhelmingly flashing leaks, not glass leaks, and the single most common cause we find is a step flashing sequence run backward at the head. Mastic around a curb is a confession rather than a detail, and we have pulled plenty of it off a sequence that simply needed reversing.
If you are carrying the FORTIFIED Hail supplement, each skylight needs two photographs, one overall and one showing the impact rating label, or equivalent documentation of the rating. Worth knowing before you order a unit carrying no such label, which many economy models do not. By the time anyone checks, the unit is already on the roof. Ask before you order.
Now the recommendation that costs us the bigger ticket. On a typical single-story Metairie ranch with a shallow attic and a short run from deck to ceiling, a tubular daylighting device usually delivers what people actually want, which is light in a windowless bathroom or a dark hall. It costs a fraction of a framed skylight, needs no drywall shaft built, and puts a far smaller opening in the roof.
We will quote both side by side and tell you which room genuinely justifies the framed unit. Usually it is a kitchen or a north-facing living room with a vaulted ceiling, where the view of the sky is the point. For a hallway it almost never is, and we will say so before you have paid a framer. We will not push it.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — geo-tagged photographs of bare roof sheathing, 8D ring-shank deck nails shot against a tape measure, attic-side nail spacing photographs between consecutive trusses, taped sheathing seams beneath a wide-roll underlayment, twenty-six gauge galvanized drip edge replaced new on every tear-off, self-adhered starter strip bonded to the eave metal — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Metairie and nearby communities including New Orleans, Kenner, Marrero, LaPlace.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Metairie covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Metairie, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation metairie
- skylight repair metairie la
- leaking skylight repair
- skylight replacement jefferson parish
- tubular skylight metairie
- curb mounted skylight
- sun tunnel installation metairie la
- skylight flashing kit
- skylight glass replacement
- solar tube lighting metairie
- skylight cost metairie la
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Metairie 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 geo-tagged photographs of bare roof sheathing, 8D ring-shank deck nails shot against a tape measure, attic-side nail spacing photographs between consecutive trusses, taped sheathing seams beneath a wide-roll underlayment, 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 Metairie 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 Parish 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 Metairie
Metairie Roof Pros covers Metairie and the surrounding communities of Jefferson Parish. 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 New Orleans, LA — Orleans Parish, population 383,997
- Skylights in Kenner, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 66,448
- Skylights in Marrero, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 32,382
- Skylights in LaPlace, LA — St. John the Baptist Parish, population 28,841
- Skylights in Slidell, LA — St. Tammany Parish, population 28,781
- Skylights in Terrytown, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 25,278
Start on the Metairie Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Metairie Chooses Metairie Roof Pros
- ✓We wait for the permit to issue before anything comes off, because Act 422 of 2025 made starting early a licensing violation rather than a scheduling shortcut
- ✓The deck stays open long enough to photograph properly, from above with a tape measure and from inside the attic, so the attachment can be proved later
- ✓You receive the same file the parish receives, organized by address, so the record survives whichever contractor you use next
- ✓We quote the plain reroof and the documented FORTIFIED version side by side, with the evaluator's hold points already written into the schedule
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Metairie 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 Metairie 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 Metairie, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.