Shreveport Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Shreveport, LA for residential and commercial properties across the Ark-La-Tex. Skylights are the one product on this list where our honest advice, more often than not, is a smaller one or none at all. That has very little to do with leaks and almost everything to do with the sun this parish gets.
A clear glazed opening cut into a roof facing a Louisiana August is a heat source aimed at your ceiling. It shows on the cooling bill and as a hot spot in the room below, and no flashing changes it. If daylight is the point and a view of the sky is not, a tubular daylighting device brings down most of the same light for far less heat, through a much smaller hole in the deck.
We suggest that first and regularly lose the bigger sale. Where a real unit is the right answer, specification matters more than the badge on it. Laminated low-emissivity glazing rather than plain glass. Modest size rather than the largest one that fits between the rafters. North-facing slopes wherever the room layout will allow it. And curb-mounted rather than deck-mounted, which is where we part company with a lot of installers around here.
The curb argument is a local one. A deck-mounted unit sits nearly flush with the roof plane, which means anything sliding down that slope arrives directly at the frame. In a climate where a sheet of glaze can release off an entire plane in one movement, and where limbs come down through a parish that is half forest land, we would sooner have the glazing sitting two inches clear on a site-built curb with proper counterflashing around it.
Replacement is usually the right call on any unit past twenty years old. Seal failure between the panes, a permanently fogged interior surface and hardened gasketry all tend to arrive together, and the flashing kit is model-specific in any case. Rebuilding old flashing around old glass is money spent twice for one result. We quote both options side by side.
Every install we do gets the manufacturer's own flashing kit for that exact model. Site-fabricated flashing around a skylight is the most reliable method we know of for guaranteeing a leak in year three. Where a previous installer built one out of step flashing and sealant, replacing the whole unit is usually cheaper than chasing that leak twice more.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — Class 4 impact-rated laminate shingles tested to UL 2218, self-adhered eave membrane held to the first course line, 26-gauge painted steel drip edge lapped over the underlayment, half-inch CDX sheathing scabbed over one-by plank decking, tapered polyiso built to a quarter-inch-per-foot drain slope, gutter trough in .032 aluminum sized for a static ice load — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Shreveport and nearby communities including Bossier City, Minden, Red Chute, Springhill.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Shreveport covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Shreveport, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- skylight repair la
- leaking skylight caddo parish
- curb mounted skylight louisiana
- sun tunnel installation shreveport
- skylight replacement bossier city
- skylight flashing kit
- solar tube shreveport
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Shreveport 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 Class 4 impact-rated laminate shingles tested to UL 2218, self-adhered eave membrane held to the first course line, 26-gauge painted steel drip edge lapped over the underlayment, half-inch CDX sheathing scabbed over one-by plank decking, 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 Shreveport 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 Ark-La-Tex 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 Shreveport
Shreveport Roof Pros covers Shreveport and the surrounding communities of the Ark-La-Tex. 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 Bossier City, LA — Bossier Parish, population 62,701
- Skylights in Minden, LA — Webster Parish, population 11,928
- Skylights in Red Chute, LA — Bossier Parish, population 7,065
- Skylights in Springhill, LA — Webster Parish, population 4,801
- Skylights in Mansfield, LA — De Soto Parish, population 4,714
- Skylights in Haughton, LA — Bossier Parish, population 4,539
Start on the Shreveport Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Shreveport Chooses Shreveport Roof Pros
- ✓We quote impact class before wind class, because this parish sits nowhere near the 140 mph ultimate design wind speed the code uses to draw a wind-borne debris region.
- ✓No eave membrane runs the whole deck on a Shreveport house. Nothing here builds a snowpack to dam behind, and the plan shows you where that membrane stops paying for itself.
- ✓Winter inspections are done at the thaw rather than during the event, because a glazed roof hides every defect it just caused and walking one is how people get hurt.
- ✓Fascia is measured and priced alongside the gutter, since a trough packed with ice pulls through soft pine long before it pulls a hanger out of anything.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Shreveport 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 Shreveport 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 Shreveport, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.