Manchester Premium Roofing provides professional skylights in Manchester, NH for residential and commercial properties across southern New Hampshire. We remove more skylights than we install, and on an older Manchester house that is usually right. A skylight is a hole in the one surface of your building whose entire job is not having holes in it, and its service life is far shorter than the roof around it.
Most of the leaks we are called to have nothing to do with the glass. The failure sits at the flashing, or in the fact that no proper kit was ever fitted. A unit bedded in sealant rather than step-flashed and counterflashed will leak, and only the winter is in doubt. Sealant ages, moves and splits, and on units fitted in the 1990s it is the commonest thing we find.
When a unit is being replaced, it goes in with the manufacturer's flashing kit for that model and that roof covering, and the curb gets built or rebuilt properly. We will not fit a kit designed for a different pitch or a different covering because it was what the supplier had, and we will not install into a curb that has softened underneath. We photograph the old detail before removing it, so you see what was there.
On a roof at replacement age we will talk about closing the opening. If the skylight is over a stair or a hallway rather than a room that needs it, framing the hole shut during a tear-off costs very little, removes a permanent leak risk, and improves the insulated envelope of a house that probably needs the help. Closing an opening during a tear-off is far cheaper than doing it as its own job later.
Where we argue for keeping them is a genuinely dark interior room, particularly in the older housing here where an addition left an interior space with no exterior wall. Daylight from above is the only fix available, and a modern unit properly flashed is a reasonable thing to own. In that situation we will fit the best unit available and detail it properly.
Solar tubes are the option people forget. Where the goal is light rather than view or ventilation, a tubular unit puts a much smaller and better-detailed penetration in the roof, costs less to fit, and is far less likely to be the thing we come back to look at in fifteen years. Where light is the goal rather than a view, it is usually the better purchase.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — surface-mounted counterflashing anchored above the mortar line, joints raked and repointed in soft Type O lime mortar, lead wedges setting flashing into a raked brick joint, shingles tested to ASTM D3462 and classified to D7158, net free ventilating area computed to IRC R806.2, a saddle framed to the 30-inch chimney threshold — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Manchester and nearby communities including Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett, Merrimack.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Manchester covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Manchester, NH. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation Manchester NH
- skylight replacement
- leaking skylight repair
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight
- skylight flashing kit
- solar tube skylight
- skylight glass replacement
- attic skylight
- skylight removal
- skylight contractor
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Manchester 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 surface-mounted counterflashing anchored above the mortar line, joints raked and repointed in soft Type O lime mortar, lead wedges setting flashing into a raked brick joint, shingles tested to ASTM D3462 and classified to D7158, 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 Manchester 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 southern New Hampshire 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 Manchester
Manchester Premium Roofing covers Manchester and the surrounding communities of southern New Hampshire. 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 Bedford, NH — Hillsborough County, population 23,322
- Skylights in Goffstown, NH — Hillsborough County, population 18,577
- Skylights in Hooksett, NH — Merrimack County, population 14,871
- Skylights in Merrimack, NH — Hillsborough County, population 26,632
- Skylights in Londonderry, NH — Rockingham County, population 25,826
- Skylights in Derry, NH — Rockingham County, population 34,317
Start on the Manchester Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Manchester Chooses Manchester Premium Roofing
- ✓We tell you plainly that New Hampshire issues no roofing license, then show you the three things about a contractor you actually can verify here.
- ✓The warranty is written before the sale, not handed over at the end, because the statute reads that document to decide whether your complaint counts as a defect.
- ✓Our inspections are paid and the written report belongs to you, so our finding is allowed to be that your roof needs nothing this year.
- ✓Where a roof meets old brick we set flashing into a raked joint and repoint in soft lime mortar, and we will not run a grinder through a wall that cannot take one.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.