Eau Claire Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Eau Claire, WI for residential and commercial properties across the Chippewa Valley. Skylights get blamed for more winter water in this city than they deserve, and they also cause more of it than their owners realize. Both things are true at once, which makes the diagnosis worth doing properly before anybody buys glass.
The blame is often misplaced because a skylight is the coldest visible surface in a warm room, so it condenses first. Water running down the inside of the glass in January is almost never a leak. It is your indoor humidity finding the coldest pane in the house, and the fix is a humidistat and a bath fan, not a flashing kit. Run the house drier and the glass stays clear.
The genuine fault is the shaft. A skylight well is a drywall chimney running from a heated ceiling straight through the attic to the roof deck, and on many houses it was framed, insulated badly and never sealed. That shaft moves a lot of warm moist air into the coldest part of the attic, and the frost forming around it melts down the shaft in March and stains exactly where a leaking skylight would.
So our skylight scope is longer than most. We open the well, seal the drywall-to-framing joint, insulate the shaft to full depth with the air barrier continuous, and build the head and side detail so nothing communicates between the room and the attic. That is more drywall work than most roofers care to sell, and it is the part that actually stops the stain.
On the roof we set curb-mounted units on a curb we build on site, with the manufacturer's flashing kit stepped into the courses instead of a bead of sealant. Deck-mounted units go in only where the pitch and the surrounding detail genuinely suit them. Ice barrier up the curb is not optional here, and neither is a cricket above a wide unit.
And the downsell: if you want daylight in a hallway, a bathroom or a stairwell, a tubular daylight device runs a fraction of the price, penetrates the deck with a small sealed collar instead of a large open shaft, and gives this climate far less to go wrong with. We recommend it more often than we recommend glass. Smaller sale, better fit for a cold attic. We say so on the phone before anyone schedules a visit.
Our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a gasketed and dammed attic access hatch, site-cut vent baffles carried from the top plate past the insulation line, bath and range fans ducted to insulated roof caps rather than into the soffit, airtight IC-rated can housings sealed to the drywall, two-part spray foam at top plates, plumbing stacks and wire chases, eave intake sized at or above the ridge exhaust it feeds — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Eau Claire and nearby communities including Altoona, Chippewa Falls, Lake Hallie, Menomonie.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Eau Claire covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Eau Claire, WI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation eau claire
- skylight repair eau claire wi
- leaking skylight chippewa valley
- curb mounted skylight eau claire
- skylight replacement eau claire wi
- skylight flashing kit eau claire
- skylight condensation eau claire
- sun tunnel eau claire wi
- skylight shaft insulation eau claire
- velux skylight installer eau claire
- skylight glass replacement eau claire
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Eau Claire 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 a gasketed and dammed attic access hatch, site-cut vent baffles carried from the top plate past the insulation line, bath and range fans ducted to insulated roof caps rather than into the soffit, airtight IC-rated can housings sealed to the drywall, 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 Eau Claire 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 Chippewa Valley 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 Eau Claire
Eau Claire Roof Pros covers Eau Claire and the surrounding communities of the Chippewa Valley. 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 Altoona, WI — Eau Claire County, population 8,293
- Skylights in Chippewa Falls, WI — Chippewa County, population 14,731
- Skylights in Lake Hallie, WI — Chippewa County, population 7,170
- Skylights in Menomonie, WI — Dunn County, population 16,843
- Skylights in Bloomer, WI — Chippewa County, population 3,683
- Skylights in Stanley, WI — Chippewa County, population 3,804
Start on the Eau Claire Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (888) 832-3078 and describe the job.
Why Eau Claire Chooses Eau Claire Roof Pros
- ✓We inspect attics in cold weather on purpose, because frost is evidence that erases itself. A March stain read in June tells you almost nothing.
- ✓Any quote that follows a winter ceiling stain names the moisture source before it names a product, and if the source is inside your house we put that in writing.
- ✓We turn down replacements. A frost problem survives a new roof, so we would rather you spent the money on air sealing than on shingles that cannot help.
- ✓Exhaust venting is the last thing we add, not the first. Pulling more air out of an attic that leaks at the ceiling simply draws more house moisture up into the cold.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire 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 (888) 832-3078 for a free skylights free estimate in Eau Claire, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.