Reston Premium Roofing provides professional skylights in Reston, VA for residential and commercial properties across western Fairfax County. A skylight replaced in its existing opening is among the least supervised jobs on a house. It needs no permit, draws no inspection, and touches the one detail where sealant holds for two winters and then stops. Nobody checks it, and the failure arrives long after the invoice cleared.
The code has less to say here than people expect, and what it does say is worth knowing. R903.2.2 requires a cricket on the ridge side of any penetration more than thirty inches wide, then exempts unit skylights installed to R308.6 and flashed to the manufacturer's instructions. That exemption is conditional on the flashing kit, which is precisely the part that gets swapped for a tube of caulk on a Friday.
So the kit that ships for your exact unit and your exact pitch is the kit that goes on, with nothing substituted for convenience. Self-adhering membrane climbs the curb first, side flashings lace into the shingle courses one per course, a head piece slides beneath the covering above, and an apron carries water clear below. Glass is almost never the failure. Sealant standing in for metal is.
Deck-mounted units sit lower and shed better on a shallow plane. Curb-mounted units stand proud of the field and belong only where the framing or an existing curb demands them. On the wide dormer faces common through these clusters the choice is usually settled by the pitch and by how much shingle runs above the unit, rather than by anybody's preference.
Replacing an aging unit generally beats repairing it, and we say so before you pay for a repair. Once a pane has fogged, its seal is gone and cannot be restored by anyone. An acrylic dome fitted in the nineteen eighties has spent four decades hardening under sunlight. Doing them during a reroof, while the crew and staging are already up, costs a fraction of a separate visit.
The shaft below gets ignored and causes half the calls we take. A light well running through an unconditioned attic needs insulating and air sealing, or warm interior air meets cold glass and produces condensation that everyone reads as a leak. In January we look at the shaft before concluding anything at all about the roof above it.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a self-adhering ice barrier carried inside the exterior wall line, double underlayment on connector slopes under four in twelve, six fasteners per shingle against a code floor of four, twenty-four-inch open valley metal in twenty-six gauge, a cricket framed on the ridge side of a wide stack, kick-out flashing where an eave runs into a vertical sidewall — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Reston and nearby communities including Herndon, Vienna, Oakton, McLean.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights in Reston covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights work in Reston, VA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation reston va
- skylight replacement
- leaking skylight repair
- deck mounted skylight
- curb mounted skylight
- skylight flashing kit
- fogged skylight pane
- skylight shaft insulation
- skylight condensation
- dormer skylight
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Reston 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 self-adhering ice barrier carried inside the exterior wall line, double underlayment on connector slopes under four in twelve, six fasteners per shingle against a code floor of four, twenty-four-inch open valley metal in twenty-six gauge, 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 Reston 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 western Fairfax 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 Reston
Reston Premium Roofing covers Reston and the surrounding communities of western Fairfax 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 Herndon, VA — Fairfax County, population 24,655
- Skylights in Vienna, VA — Fairfax County, population 16,473
- Skylights in Oakton, VA — Fairfax County, population 36,732
- Skylights in McLean, VA — Fairfax County, population 50,773
- Skylights in Great Falls, VA — Fairfax County, population 15,953
- Skylights in Brambleton, VA — Loudoun County, population 23,486
Start on the Reston Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Reston Chooses Reston Premium Roofing
- ✓Every quote runs in two columns. The left is what the 2021 Virginia Residential Code obliges anyone to do on your roof. The right is what we install instead, priced separately, so you can strike a line and pay less.
- ✓Fairfax County is not allowed to ask for more. Section 36-98 of the Code of Virginia makes the statewide code supersede county building regulations and expressly overrides local ordinances requiring particular materials or finishes on a single-family house.
- ✓The one exception is Table R301.2, which the code hands to the locality to fill in. Fairfax designated an ice barrier as required and the City of Alexandria did not, so we install to the county your house is actually in.
- ✓Four fasteners per strip shingle is the floor under R905.2.6. We set six, in the manufacturer's nail zone, and photograph the pattern on each slope before the next course hides it.
The standards behind skylights
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights work we do in Reston 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 Reston 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 Reston, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.