Baltimore Premium Roofing provides professional skylights & roof hatches in Baltimore, MD for residential and commercial properties across Central Maryland. This is the one page where we tell you to spend more rather than less. A rowhouse is a long narrow box with windows at two ends and party walls down both sides, so the middle gets no daylight. A skylight does more here than on almost any other building.
The geometry is the whole argument. Twelve to sixteen feet wide, forty or more feet deep, three storeys, and every square foot of side wall shared with a neighbour. The stair hall and the middle bedrooms are lit by borrowed light or by bulbs. Put an opening in the roof over the stairwell and the transformation is not subtle, and unlike an addition it does not require a foot of extra ground.
The catch is that a skylight in a low-slope deck is a hole in the one surface holding water out, which is why we only install curb-mounted units on a built-up curb, never a deck-mounted unit sitting flat in a membrane. The curb gets adequate height, the membrane turns up it and is terminated under the frame, and a tapered cricket sheds water around the upslope side rather than letting it pond against the curb.
The shaft below matters as much as the unit above. A light shaft cutting down through a cockloft and a plaster ceiling is a hole through the building's air barrier and its insulation, so it gets insulated and air-sealed on all four sides. Skipping that is how a new skylight starts dripping condensation in January and gets blamed for leaking.
Roof hatches belong on this page too, because Baltimore roof decks are everywhere and the access is often the worst detail on the roof. A hatch is a curb, a flashing and a lid, and it deserves the same treatment as a skylight. So do the pedestal or sleeper systems people build over a membrane; we will tell you what a deck will do to a roof and how to build one that does not shorten it.
If your existing skylight leaks, it is worth knowing that the unit itself is rarely the culprit. Curb height, base flashing and ponding on the upslope side account for most of them, and replacing the glass unit without rebuilding the curb usually buys a repeat visit.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — self-adhered modified bitumen cap sheets, party-wall base flashing terminated in a surface-mounted reglet, through-wall scuppers with sheet-metal collector heads, parapet coping caps set on cleats with sealed joints, tapered polyisocyanurate crickets pitched to the rear outlet, cockloft framing with joist ends pocketed into brick — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Baltimore and nearby communities including Dundalk, Towson, Catonsville, Essex.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights & roof hatches in Baltimore covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights & roof hatches work in Baltimore, MD. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Baltimore services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights & roof hatches
The difference between skylights & roof hatches that lasts and skylights & roof hatches that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with self-adhered modified bitumen cap sheets, party-wall base flashing terminated in a surface-mounted reglet, through-wall scuppers with sheet-metal collector heads, parapet coping caps set on cleats with sealed joints, 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 Baltimore 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 Maryland 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 & roof hatches outside Baltimore
Baltimore Premium Roofing covers Baltimore and the surrounding communities of Central Maryland. 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 & Roof Hatches in Dundalk, MD — Baltimore County, population 67,796
- Skylights & Roof Hatches in Towson, MD — Baltimore County, population 59,553
- Skylights & Roof Hatches in Catonsville, MD — Baltimore County, population 44,701
- Skylights & Roof Hatches in Essex, MD — Baltimore County, population 40,505
- Skylights & Roof Hatches in Parkville, MD — Baltimore County, population 31,812
- Skylights & Roof Hatches in Pikesville, MD — Baltimore County, population 34,168
Start on the Baltimore Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Baltimore Chooses Baltimore Premium Roofing
- ✓We scope the two party walls before the field, because on a Baltimore rowhouse the roof ends at somebody else's building on both sides.
- ✓No open flame on an occupied attached block. Self-adhered and cold-applied systems only, and that commitment is written into the proposal.
- ✓Every proposal states your position in the row, because a middle house, an end unit and a house beside a vacant lot are three different roofs.
- ✓Coping, cornice and the rear outlet are priced as separate lines from the membrane, since that is where rowhouse roofs actually fail.
The standards behind skylights & roof hatches
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights & roof hatches work we do in Baltimore 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 & roof hatches project in Baltimore 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 & roof hatches free estimate in Baltimore, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.