Sterling Heights Roof Pros provides professional skylights & sun tunnels in Sterling Heights, MI for residential and commercial properties across central Macomb County. This is the honest downsell on our site. On a truss-framed Sterling Heights house we will install a skylight, and it will be narrower than the one you have in mind, and we will not cut a truss to change that.
The constraint is fixed. Trusses in this stock sit at twenty-four inches on center. Subtract the chord and the clear opening is a shade under twenty-three inches. Every deck-mounted and curb-mounted unit made for that bay fits it. Anything wider requires removing part of an engineered member, and Michigan's residential code is unambiguous on the point: no truss member gets cut, notched, drilled or spliced unless a registered design professional has approved the detail.
That approval is obtainable. An engineer can draw a header detail with supplementary members, and on a genuinely important room it can be worth the several thousand dollars it costs. What we will not do is quote it as if it were framing carpentry, because a roofer heading off a truss with a couple of jack studs is the sort of thing that shows up on the next owner's inspection report.
For most rooms the better product is a tubular daylight device. A tube of ten or fourteen inches drops straight between the chords with no structural work, delivers a surprising amount of light through a reflective shaft, and costs a fraction of a framed skylight with a fraction of the leak risk. On a shallow-slope ranch with a shallow attic, the shaft run is short and the light quality is genuinely good.
Where we install a real skylight, the flashing kit built for that exact unit is the only thing we will fit. Step flashing climbs each side, woven course by course, with a head flashing carrying water around the top and a deck seal membrane beneath the lot. Skylights do not leak because they are skylights. They leak because somebody caulked around the frame instead of flashing it.
We replace a lot of units from the late 1980s and 1990s whose acrylic domes have crazed and whose seals have gone. If your existing curb is sound, a replacement unit into the same opening is a straightforward day's work, and it is the one skylight job where you can have exactly the size you already have, with no structural conversation at all.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — metal truss connector plates, Fink truss webs, heel bearing over the exterior top plate, raised-heel energy trusses, H-clips between roof sheathing panels, seven-sixteenths OSB roof decking — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Sterling Heights and nearby communities including Utica, Shelby Township, Clinton Township, Macomb Township.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights & sun tunnels in Sterling Heights covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights & sun tunnels work in Sterling Heights, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation Sterling Heights
- sun tunnel tubular daylight
- skylight replacement
- skylight leak repair
- deck mounted skylight
- curb mounted skylight
- skylight between trusses
- solar powered venting skylight
- skylight flashing kit
- light shaft framing
- skylight cost Macomb County
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Sterling Heights services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights & sun tunnels
The difference between skylights & sun tunnels that lasts and skylights & sun tunnels that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with metal truss connector plates, Fink truss webs, heel bearing over the exterior top plate, raised-heel energy trusses, 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 Sterling Heights 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 central Macomb County 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 & sun tunnels outside Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights Roof Pros covers Sterling Heights and the surrounding communities of central Macomb County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
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- Skylights & Sun Tunnels in Shelby Township, MI — Macomb County, population 79,408
- Skylights & Sun Tunnels in Clinton Township, MI — Macomb County, population 100,513
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Start on the Sterling Heights Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Sterling Heights Chooses Sterling Heights Roof Pros
- ✓We photograph every metal connector plate and heel bearing in your attic and hand you the file, hired or not
- ✓Full tear-off only on truss-framed homes, because a second layer hides the frame and adds load it was never drawn for
- ✓Intake ventilation is corrected before any exhaust is added, so a starved attic is not made worse
- ✓We name the finished roof dead load in the quote and compare it to what the original builder specified
The standards behind skylights & sun tunnels
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights & sun tunnels work we do in Sterling Heights 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 & sun tunnels project in Sterling Heights 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 & sun tunnels free estimate in Sterling Heights, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.