Palestine Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Palestine, TX for residential and commercial properties across the western edge of East Texas. A skylight is a hole cut in the only part of your house whose job is to have no holes in it, so the question we ask first is whether a solar tube would do the same work with a quarter of the risk.
Very often it would. A ten- or fourteen-inch tubular unit brings usable daylight into a hallway, bathroom or interior kitchen through a small curbed penetration with a factory-flashed base, and there is no shaft to build, no drywall to crack, and very little to go wrong. If what you actually want is daylight, and not a view of the sky or a way to vent the room, that is our recommendation, at a fraction of the cost.
When a real skylight is right, curb-mounted beats deck-mounted on this ground and we will not install it the other way. A curb lifts the unit clear of the plane on its own framed box, takes step and counterflashing like a small chimney, and decouples the glass from a deck that may not sit still. Deck-mounted units rely on the factory flashing kit alone, which is fine on a house that never moves.
On the western half of our service area we sometimes advise against a skylight outright. If the interior already shows seasonal cracking at door heads and ceiling corners, a new light shaft is going to crack too, and the owner will reasonably blame the roof for something the ground did. That conversation is better had before the hole is cut than after.
Glass over acrylic, laminated over tempered where a shaft passes above a living space, and a low-emissivity coating on any unit facing south or west. The long summers here make an uncoated skylight over a kitchen a genuine mistake. The upcharge for coated glass is small against the difference in how that room actually feels through August, and nobody has ever asked us to take the coating back off.
Replacement is usually smarter than repair. If a fifteen-year-old unit is leaking, the seal, the flashing kit and the gasket are all the same age, and reflashing around a tired unit means opening the same roof again in three years. Change the whole assembly while the roof is already open, and get the curb rebuilt at the same time if the wood shows any softness at the corners.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — two-piece counterflashing set into a saw-cut reglet, step flashing laced course by course into a sidewall, SBS-modified asphalt laminate shingle, concealed-clip standing seam panel, twenty-six gauge exposed-fastener metal panel, self-adhering membrane at valleys and penetrations — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Palestine and nearby communities including Elkhart, Frankston, Athens, Corsicana.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Palestine covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Palestine, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation
- skylight replacement
- skylight leak repair
- curb mounted skylight
- solar tube
- tubular skylight
- low-e skylight glass
- light shaft framing
- skylight flashing kit
- roof window
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Palestine 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 two-piece counterflashing set into a saw-cut reglet, step flashing laced course by course into a sidewall, SBS-modified asphalt laminate shingle, concealed-clip standing seam panel, 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 Palestine 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 western edge of East Texas 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 Palestine
Palestine Roof Pros covers Palestine and the surrounding communities of the western edge of East Texas. 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 Elkhart, TX — Anderson County, population 1,287
- Skylights in Frankston, TX — Anderson County, population 1,126
- Skylights in Athens, TX — Henderson County, population 12,857
- Skylights in Corsicana, TX — Navarro County, population 25,109
- Skylights in Fairfield, TX — Freestone County, population 2,850
- Skylights in Teague, TX — Freestone County, population 3,384
Start on the Palestine Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Palestine Chooses Palestine Roof Pros
- ✓We quote ground first, framing second, covering third, because on this territory the soil under a house changes the correct roof detail more than the house does.
- ✓Two opposite gutter recommendations inside one service area, and we will tell you which one your address gets before you ask for a price.
- ✓Reports separate weather damage from wear from ground movement, because insurers treat those three completely differently and a mixed list helps nobody.
- ✓We refuse work regularly: no coating over shingles, no aluminum over rotten wood, no re-roof on a house with foundation work pending.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Palestine 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 Palestine 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 Palestine, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.