Las Cruces Premium Roofing provides professional skylights & solar tubes in Las Cruces, NM for residential and commercial properties across the Mesilla Valley. Before anything else about skylights, a licensing fact that decides who is allowed to do the work. New Mexico's roofing classification covers installing skylights but expressly excludes alterations to structural framing, and cutting a new opening is exactly that.
So a new skylight in a roof that does not already have one is not purely a roofing job. Opening a deck, heading off rafters or altering a truss belongs to a framing or general building classification, and a truss in particular cannot simply be cut on site because it is an engineered assembly. A roofer offering to add a skylight next Tuesday with no mention of framing is telling you something useful about how he works.
Swapping a unit into an opening that already exists is a different matter, and it is plain roofing work. We do a great deal of it, and the honest advice is nearly always to change out the whole unit rather than reglaze it. The seal and the flashing kit age on the same clock, and a factory kit made for that unit, curb-mounted or deck-mounted, beats any detail we could build in the field.
Now the part a salesperson leaves out. In this climate a skylight is a heat liability as much as a light source. A clear glazed unit on a south or west plane in Las Cruces admits a great deal of summer heat, and homeowners who love the light in February resent the room in July. Laminated low-emissivity glazing, a north or east plane, and a modest size solve most of that.
Which is why we suggest tubular daylighting devices more often than we suggest skylights. A ten or fourteen inch tube brings daylight down through a reflective shaft with a fraction of the heat gain, needs no structural work because it fits between framing members, and costs far less to install and to flash. For a dark hallway or a windowless bathroom it is simply the better product.
If you want the sky rather than the light, we will build you a proper skylight, with the framing done by the right licensee and the flashing kit from the unit's own manufacturer. If all you want is a brighter room, we will usually tell you to spend a third of the money on a tube and keep the rest in your pocket.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — HUD-code roof pans re-seamed with embedded reinforcing fabric, silicone restoration membrane applied at 22 to 26 dry mils, roof-mounted evaporative cooler curbs with base and counter flashing, 29-gauge exposed-fastener panel refastened to oversize diameter screws, tapered polyisocyanurate cut to a quarter inch per foot with crickets, two-ply granulated modified bitumen over a low-slope valley-floor deck — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Las Cruces and nearby communities including Sunland Park, Chaparral, Anthony, Santa Teresa.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights & solar tubes in Las Cruces covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights & solar tubes work in Las Cruces, NM. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation Las Cruces
- skylight replacement NM
- leaking skylight repair
- solar tube installation
- tubular daylighting device
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight flashing kit
- skylight heat gain desert
- low e skylight glazing
- skylight cost Las Cruces
- cut new skylight opening framing
- skylight flashing repair
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Las Cruces services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights & solar tubes
The difference between skylights & solar tubes that lasts and skylights & solar tubes that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with HUD-code roof pans re-seamed with embedded reinforcing fabric, silicone restoration membrane applied at 22 to 26 dry mils, roof-mounted evaporative cooler curbs with base and counter flashing, 29-gauge exposed-fastener panel refastened to oversize diameter screws, 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 Las Cruces 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 Mesilla 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 & solar tubes outside Las Cruces
Las Cruces Premium Roofing covers Las Cruces and the surrounding communities of the Mesilla 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 & Solar Tubes in Sunland Park, NM — Dona Ana County, population 16,702
- Skylights & Solar Tubes in Chaparral, NM — Dona Ana County, population 16,551
- Skylights & Solar Tubes in Anthony, NM — Dona Ana County, population 8,693
- Skylights & Solar Tubes in Santa Teresa, NM — Dona Ana County, population 5,044
- Skylights & Solar Tubes in University Park, NM — Dona Ana County, population 3,007
- Skylights & Solar Tubes in Vado, NM — Dona Ana County, population 2,930
Start on the Las Cruces Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Las Cruces Chooses Las Cruces Premium Roofing
- ✓We settle the recover question with a core cut before quoting, so you learn whether New Mexico's rewritten reroofing rule permits a second layer on your roof or forces a full tear-off.
- ✓We price manufactured home roofs as restoration work first, because a sound factory metal pan cleaned, re-seamed and coated is a warranted roof at a small fraction of a replacement.
- ✓We say where our license stops. Structural work on a HUD-code home answers to the Manufactured Housing Division, and framing changes answer to a framing or general building classification, not to a roofing license.
- ✓We diagnose leaks by controlled water testing rather than waiting for weather, because a roof here gets tested on roughly 24.5 days a year and a defect can hide for a season.
The standards behind skylights & solar tubes
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights & solar tubes work we do in Las Cruces 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 & solar tubes project in Las Cruces 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 & solar tubes free estimate in Las Cruces, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.