Fort Wayne Premium Roofing provides professional skylights in Fort Wayne, IN for residential and commercial properties across northeast Indiana. Nearly every leaking skylight we open in Allen County is leaking for one of two reasons. It was deck-mounted flush when it should have stood on a curb, or it was flashed with sealant instead of with the metal kit the unit was designed around.
Curb height is the whole argument. A unit sitting proud of the deck on a framed and flashed curb has a vertical rise between the glass and any water moving down the slope. A flush-mounted unit relies on a thin apron and, once leaf litter dams above it, on nothing at all. On low-slope roofs we will not install one any other way. Curbs cost a little more and they are why the unit lasts.
The second failure is the head flashing, uphill of the unit. Water arriving from the slope above needs somewhere to divide and go around, which on anything wider than a couple of feet means a cricket. Without one the head detail sits in a permanent wet spot, and that is where an aging unit finally gives up. A cricket is cheap the day the roof is open and expensive afterwards.
Condensation gets misdiagnosed as a leak constantly. A skylight is the coldest surface in a heated room, and in a Fort Wayne January it will run with water that never came from outside. The tell is that it appears on clear cold nights rather than during rain. The cure is ventilation and shaft detailing, not a new unit. We check the date and the weather before quoting a replacement.
When we replace, we replace the flashing kit with the unit, always. Reusing old metal on a new skylight saves a small amount and voids the manufacturer's coverage, and it puts a twenty-year assembly on top of thirty-year-old aluminum. We also open the shaft below to check the framing, because a unit that has leaked has usually wet something you cannot see. Old aluminum under new glass is a false economy with a date on it.
If you want daylight and not a view, we will point you at a tubular unit instead. It is a smaller hole, a simpler flashing, far less heat loss, and it can be run through a truss bay that a rectangular unit would require cutting. It is also considerably cheaper, which is the part nobody selling skylights leads with. People are often relieved to hear it.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — three-by-four rectangular downspout with a cast outlet drop, 24-gauge kick-out flashing turned into the gutter face, two-piece roof drain with a clamping ring and dome strainer, overflow scupper set above the primary drain rim, tapered polyisocyanurate crickets sloped a quarter inch per foot, hot-air-welded 60-mil membrane on mechanically fastened plates — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Fort Wayne and nearby communities including New Haven, Huntertown, Leo-Cedarville, Woodburn.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Fort Wayne covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Fort Wayne, IN. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Fort Wayne 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 three-by-four rectangular downspout with a cast outlet drop, 24-gauge kick-out flashing turned into the gutter face, two-piece roof drain with a clamping ring and dome strainer, overflow scupper set above the primary drain rim, 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 Fort Wayne 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 northeast Indiana 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 Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne Premium Roofing covers Fort Wayne and the surrounding communities of northeast Indiana. 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 Haven, IN — Allen County, population 15,583
- Skylights in Huntertown, IN — Allen County, population 9,141
- Skylights in Leo-Cedarville, IN — Allen County, population 3,624
- Skylights in Woodburn, IN — Allen County, population 1,551
- Skylights in Grabill, IN — Allen County, population 1,112
- Skylights in Monroeville, IN — Allen County, population 1,294
Start on the Fort Wayne Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Fort Wayne Chooses Fort Wayne Premium Roofing
- ✓Before we price anything with a trough in it we establish which of Fort Wayne's three sewer regimes your address sits on, because in the older neighborhoods the pipe under the street is carrying sanitary flow and rainfall in one barrel and it is full exactly when your roof needs it.
- ✓Every estimate says where the water leaves the property: a splash block, a buried tile we have put a camera or a hose down, or a leader we are recommending you abandon. That line is on the quote next to the shingle, because it decides as much about the roof's life as the shingle does.
- ✓Deck replacement carries a signed rate per sheet agreed before tear-off starts, so bad sheathing reaches you as a figure you already accepted rather than as a negotiation on your driveway with the roof open.
- ✓Intake and exhaust ventilation are counted in square inches of net free area and printed on the estimate. Post-2006 houses in the annexed southwest and boxed-cornice houses in the old core fail this in opposite directions, and neither is fixed by adding another ridge vent.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.