Olympia Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Olympia, WA for residential and commercial properties across Thurston County and the south Sound. Olympia gets a long gray winter and skylights are a reasonable response to it. They are also the single most common place a re-roofed house starts leaking two years later, almost always because of how the unit was mounted rather than any fault of the unit.
We install curb-mounted units on almost everything. A factory or site-built curb raises the frame clear of the roof plane, takes a proper counterflashed head and step flashing, and can be reflashed on its own in the future without disturbing the field. Deck-mounted units sit lower, look tidier, and are far less forgiving of a shallow pitch or a heavy needle load. Under conifers that difference is the whole decision.
For a lot of houses here, a tubular daylighting device is the better purchase and we will suggest it first. It costs a fraction of a glazed unit, it delivers usable light into a hallway or a bathroom where a shaft would be expensive, and it has one small penetration to flash rather than a large one that has to shed water around three sides.
Anything already on the roof gets replaced during a re-roof rather than reflashed. Skylight seals and gaskets have a service life close to the shingles above them, the labor to open the area is already being paid for, and a twenty-year-old unit surrounded by a new roof is a leak with a scheduled date. We would rather open that area once.
Two practical local points. Cutting a new opening is a structural change to the roof, and in the City of Olympia that is a building permit with engineered plans rather than the exempt minor repair a shingle patch would be, so budget the review time into the schedule. And condensation is not a leak: a cold glazing unit over a humid bathroom will run water down the shaft in January no matter who flashed it.
We will also tell you not to add one. If your roof has fewer than five years left, or the area you want lit sits under a valley or a heavily shaded rafter run, the right sequence is to wait for the replacement and cut the opening then, and we would rather book that job for later than sell it to you now. Timing is most of the cost on this one.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — quarter-inch-per-foot tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a drain-point layout, edge metal carrying an ANSI/SPRI ES-1 test rating with fastening to match, hot-air-welded thermoplastic seams probed by hand with a dull hook, two-inch core cuts patched and logged against a numbered roof plan, 24-gauge Kynar 500 standing seam on floating expansion clips, six-nail fastening set inside the manufacturer's published nail zone — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Olympia and nearby communities including Lacey, Tumwater, Yelm, Tenino.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Olympia covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Olympia, WA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation olympia
- skylight repair olympia wa
- skylight replacement thurston county
- leaking skylight olympia
- curb mounted skylight olympia wa
- sun tunnel installation olympia
- tubular skylight thurston county
- solar skylight olympia wa
- skylight flashing kit olympia
- skylight replacement during reroof lacey
- commercial skylight olympia wa
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Olympia 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 quarter-inch-per-foot tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a drain-point layout, edge metal carrying an ANSI/SPRI ES-1 test rating with fastening to match, hot-air-welded thermoplastic seams probed by hand with a dull hook, two-inch core cuts patched and logged against a numbered roof plan, 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 Olympia 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 Thurston County and the south Sound 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 Olympia
Olympia Roof Pros covers Olympia and the surrounding communities of Thurston County and the south Sound. 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 Lacey, WA — Thurston County, population 53,526
- Skylights in Tumwater, WA — Thurston County, population 25,350
- Skylights in Yelm, WA — Thurston County, population 10,617
- Skylights in Tenino, WA — Thurston County, population 1,870
- Skylights in Rainier, WA — Thurston County, population 2,369
- Skylights in Bucoda, WA — Thurston County, population 600
Start on the Olympia Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Olympia Chooses Olympia Roof Pros
- ✓We quote your summer date and your November date side by side, because in a capital city the dry weeks are sold against a public bid calendar and the gap between those two prices is real money you should get to decide about.
- ✓Every scope carries unit prices for sheathing, blocking, fascia and flashing before the tear-off starts, the way a public change order has to be written, so nothing on your job gets renegotiated from the top of a ladder.
- ✓We will tell you that nobody owes you prevailing wage on a private house. If a bid quotes the published Thurston County rate at you as a justification, that is a public works number being used as a sales line.
- ✓We do not install new concrete or clay tile in this market. The bench that can flash and maintain it properly is thin here, and we would sooner turn the work down than leave you with a roof nobody local will service.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Olympia 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 Olympia 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 Olympia, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.