Mobile Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Mobile, AL for residential and commercial properties across the central Gulf Coast. A skylight is a hole in the roof with a curb and a flashing kit around it. Built properly it lasts as long as the roof does. Built with sealant, it is the leak we get called about every October when the rain returns.
We install deck-mounted and curb-mounted units with the manufacturer's step-flashing kit, and there is no version of the job where we do not. The kit is a sequence of interleaved metal pieces laid course by course with the shingles, plus a head flashing and an underlayment turn-up at the curb. Nothing in a correct skylight install depends on a bead of caulk staying flexible for twenty years in Gulf Coast sun.
Curb height is the local variable. On the Gulf Coast we build curbs taller than the minimum, generally around eight inches above the finished roof plane, because wind-driven rain climbs a slope and a four-inch curb inside a tropical rain band is a scupper aimed at your ceiling. On a low-slope section the curb goes taller again, and we will show you the height on the framing before anything is cut.
Anything above the unit that collects water gets a cricket. A skylight wider than about thirty inches with roof plane above it will gather pine straw and dam the runoff at its upslope side, so we frame a saddle to split the flow around it. That is standard on our installs and it is the detail most retrofit skylights are missing entirely, usually because the crew that cut the hole never framed anything above it.
Here is the recommendation that surprises people. If your skylights are more than fifteen years old and the roof is coming off anyway, replace the units rather than reflashing them. Reflashing an aged unit costs most of what a new one costs, and it leaves you with a twenty-five-year roof built around a seal and a gasket that are already finished.
We will also say no. We do not add new skylights to a low-slope section under two in twelve, and we do not cut a unit into a rafter bay without an engineer's detail for the header. Daylight in a hallway is not worth a framing repair or a chronic leak over your ceiling, and we would rather lose the job than argue about it in two winters.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — ASTM D1970 self-adhered underlayment, sealed roof decks with taped panel seams, open 26-gauge W-valley metal, kick-out flashing at roof-to-wall terminations, six-inch K-style aluminum gutter with three-by-four downspouts, ring-shank fasteners at six and twelve inch spacing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Mobile and nearby communities including Prichard, Tillmans Corner, Saraland, Daphne.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Mobile covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Mobile, AL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight repair Mobile AL
- skylight installation
- skylight flashing kit
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight
- skylight leak repair
- skylight replacement with roof
- skylight cricket
- solar tube installation
- skylight curb height
- light shaft framing
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Mobile 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 ASTM D1970 self-adhered underlayment, sealed roof decks with taped panel seams, open 26-gauge W-valley metal, kick-out flashing at roof-to-wall terminations, 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 Mobile 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 the central Gulf Coast 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 Mobile
Mobile Roof Pros covers Mobile and the surrounding communities of the central Gulf Coast. 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 Prichard, AL — Mobile County, population 19,322
- Skylights in Tillmans Corner, AL — Mobile County, population 17,731
- Skylights in Saraland, AL — Mobile County, population 16,171
- Skylights in Daphne, AL — Baldwin County, population 27,462
- Skylights in Fairhope, AL — Baldwin County, population 22,477
- Skylights in Foley, AL — Baldwin County, population 20,335
Start on the Mobile Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Mobile Chooses Mobile Roof Pros
- ✓Gutters and downspouts are sized from the roof's drainage area, not copied from what was on the house before
- ✓Open 26-gauge metal valleys are standard, because a closed-cut valley asks a shingle lap to carry two planes of runoff
- ✓Every proposal names the underlayment by ASTM standard and coverage area, not just the shingle brand
- ✓Kick-out flashing goes on at every roof-to-wall termination, including the ones a previous roofer sealed over
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Mobile 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 Mobile 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 Mobile, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.