Canton Roof Pros provides professional skylights in Canton, OH for residential and commercial properties across Stark County. Skylights are a straightforward product on a modern house and a genuinely awkward one here. Between a plaster ceiling, a shallow unconditioned attic and board sheathing, a Canton skylight is a light shaft through a cold cavity, and the shaft is where the problems live.
Most calls we get are leaks on units somebody installed twenty years ago. Nine times in ten the glass is fine and the flashing is the failure: a deck-mounted unit set straight on board sheathing with mastic instead of a step-and-head flashing kit, or a kit installed with the head flashing lapped the wrong way under the course above it. The head lap is the whole thing.
Our default here is curb-mounted rather than deck-mounted. A built-up curb lifts the frame clear of the roof plane, which matters on a roof that holds wet leaves in the fall and slush in February, and it gives a soldered or membrane pan something to turn up against. On anything wider than two feet we add a cricket on the upslope side so water splits rather than pooling behind the curb.
The shaft gets insulated and air sealed as part of the job, not as an afterthought. An uninsulated shaft through a Canton attic runs cold enough to condense on the inside of the glass all winter, and the owner then reports a leaking skylight which has never leaked at all. Foil-faced board, taped seams, and a sealed plaster or drywall return at the ceiling line.
On small houses with low ceilings we will often steer you to a tubular daylight device instead. It is a quarter of the cost, it puts a surprising amount of light into a dark stair hall or a north bathroom, and it does not put a two-foot hole through your ceiling plane. On a modest house that is usually the better decision. That is a smaller invoice for us and usually the right call for you.
Where a unit is beyond repair we replace with a factory flashing kit matched to the deck and the covering, and we will not install a skylight into a roof that has fewer than five years left, because the second one costs as much as the first. Getting back onto a five-year-old skylight after a full reroof means opening a roof that is otherwise perfect, which is a bad trade at any price.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — soldered twenty-ounce copper box-gutter lining, fully adhered single-ply liner over a rebuilt gutter floor, cornice bed board carrying the trough beneath the rafter tails, scarfed rafter-tail sisters cut back to sound wood, penetrating epoxy consolidant on checked cornice stock, lock-seam conductor and cast collar at the trough outlet — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Canton and nearby communities including Massillon, North Canton, Alliance, Louisville.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Canton covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Canton, OH. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation canton oh
- skylight repair canton ohio
- leaking skylight canton
- skylight replacement stark county
- sun tunnel installation canton oh
- velux skylight canton ohio
- curb mounted skylight canton
- skylight flashing kit canton
- solar tube canton oh
- skylight glass replacement canton ohio
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Canton 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 soldered twenty-ounce copper box-gutter lining, fully adhered single-ply liner over a rebuilt gutter floor, cornice bed board carrying the trough beneath the rafter tails, scarfed rafter-tail sisters cut back to sound wood, 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 Canton 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 Stark 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 outside Canton
Canton Roof Pros covers Canton and the surrounding communities of Stark 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.
- Skylights in Massillon, OH — Stark County, population 32,146
- Skylights in North Canton, OH — Stark County, population 17,842
- Skylights in Alliance, OH — Stark County, population 21,672
- Skylights in Louisville, OH — Stark County, population 9,521
- Skylights in Canal Fulton, OH — Stark County, population 5,325
- Skylights in Hartville, OH — Stark County, population 3,329
Start on the Canton Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Canton Chooses Canton Roof Pros
- ✓We price the roof edge before the roof field, because on Canton's pre-war stock the built-in gutter is what decides the job
- ✓Every proposal quotes relining the trough and removing it side by side, with the maintenance cost of each stated
- ✓We will not hang seamless gutters under a live box gutter and call it a repair, and we will explain on site why that fix fails
- ✓We refuse to trowel roof cement or fibered coating into a wooden gutter, because sealing the top surface only makes the floor rot faster
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Canton 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 Canton 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 Canton, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.