Skylight installers for Palm Beach County.
Luxe installs and flashes every skylight. Each one has impact-rated glazing and goes in under a building permit.
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Skylight installation, replacement and repair.
We install and replace skylights across Palm Beach and Martin counties, and we repair the ones worth keeping. The office answers weekdays, 7:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night.
On a raised frame, or flat to the roof.
Every skylight mounts one of two ways, and the roof type determines which one you get.
Mounted on a raised frame
A raised frame, flashed like a small chimney
The unit caps a wooden curb built up from the deck, flashed on all four sides. The curb lifts the glazing above the water sheeting down the roof, which is why tile roofs and low-slope sections get curbs: the surface is either too textured or too flat to seal a low flange against. A curb also makes the next replacement simpler, because a new unit can land on the existing frame without opening the roof around it.
Mounted flat to the roof
Flange to the deck, low against the roof
Without a curb, the unit fastens its flange straight to the roof deck and sits slim against the surface. On a shingle roof with decent pitch it is the cleaner install, with fewer parts and a lower profile from the street, but it needs enough slope to shed water off that flange. Below the slope the unit maker allows, the skylight goes on a curb instead.
Skylights leak at the flashing.
When a skylight lets water in, the glass gets blamed, but the flashing is almost always the failure. We wrap the opening in a stick-down membrane before any metal goes on, so the perimeter sheds water even when wind drives rain past the outer flashing. Then the step and counter flashing lap into the roof covering course by course, the same detail a chimney gets.
Glazing rated for impact and wind.
We set impact-rated laminated units, whose interlayer holds the glass together when debris hits, so the roof stays closed even with the pane fractured. That impact rating comes from testing to ASTM E1886 and E1996, or Miami-Dade's TAS series, depending on the approval path, and the systems we install carry approvals tested past the wind-uplift standard the code sets for coastal Palm Beach County.
Low-E coatings cut solar gain without darkening the room, which matters on east and west roof planes here. Vented units, including solar-powered ones, dump the hot air that pools at the ceiling. Velux is the name most owners ask for, and we install it. Fog between the panes means the sealed unit has failed and gets replaced, while moisture on the frame of the light well below means the shaft needs insulation work, and new glass will not cure it.
Replace them when the roof comes off.
A skylight's working life runs about the length of the roof around it, and the expensive part of replacing one is not the unit but opening the roof: the tear-back, the membrane, the flashing and the closure. During a reroof all of that is already open and already priced, so setting a new unit then costs the unit and little else.
When a new roof goes on around an old skylight, replacing that skylight later means cutting into the finished roof and paying for the same flashing work a second time. If a roof replacement is on your calendar, put the skylights in the same permit.
How the job runs.
Every job follows the same order, whether the skylight is part of a reroof or goes in on its own.
First look
Framing decides the size
Rafter or truss spacing at the opening sets how large a skylight the roof can take without new framing. We measure that first, along with the deck condition and how deep the light well runs down to the ceiling.
The unit
Approval checked before ordering
Every unit we set carries a Miami-Dade product approval or a Florida Product Approval. We look it up on the state database before the order goes in, so the unit that arrives is documented for this jurisdiction.
The permit
Filed by us, closed by us
Any cut into the roof deck in Palm Beach County takes a building permit, even for a skylight swapped into the same opening. We file the permit with the product approval and whatever drawings the county asks for, and run it through to the signed-off inspection.
The cut
Double headers restore the frame
The opening is cut to the maker's spec. Double headers tie the cut rafters back into the surrounding structure, so the deck around the skylight carries load the way it did before the saw came out.
The flashing
Membrane first, then metal
A stick-down membrane wraps the opening before any flashing goes on, and the step and counter flashing lap into the roof covering course by course.
Closeout
You keep the record
The record is one package: the signed permit card, inspection record, product approval and warranty registration, plus drone photographs of the finished flashing. That package matters years from now, when the house is sold.
Where skylight work fits.
Most of our skylight work happens inside a reroof, and the replacement page covers that job from first call to final inspection. Each roof material has its own page: tile, shingle, or metal, with the full lineup on the residential page.
The cost page explains what drives the price of a roof, financing covers how owners pay for it, and our GAF certifications have their own page. A skylight pouring water in the middle of a storm is emergency work.