Skylights After a Wind Storm: A Johnston Roof in Landmark Weathered Wood

When a wind storm damages a roof, the skylights are often the first thing to leak afterward — because the flashing around them is exactly what the wind and driven rain work loose. This Johnston home came through a wind storm and was made right with a new CertainTeed Landmark roof in Weathered Wood and skylights re-integrated the correct way. Pinnacle roofs go on fast — often as a one-day roof replacement — and flexible financing keeps a project like this within reach, with plans as low as 0% interest for 18 months.

A Johnston home damaged in a wind storm received a new CertainTeed Landmark roof in Weathered Wood with its skylights re-flashed and integrated, closing the leak-prone points a storm exposes. This project is in Johnston, Rhode Island, finished in CertainTeed Landmark — Weathered Wood.

Scope of Work

The storm repair rebuilt the roof as a system and re-integrated the skylights into it. The slopes were laid up with the full weather barrier — ice-and-water shield at the eaves and valleys, synthetic underlayment, and new edge metal — then coursed in Landmark shingles in Weathered Wood, a soft gray-and-tan blend. The skylights were re-flashed with engineered metal kits and ice-and-water membrane up each curb, so the openings that a storm is most likely to breach were rebuilt as sealed parts of the new roof. On a roof that has already taken storm damage, closing the skylight-to-roof joints properly is what keeps the next storm out.

What We Installed (And Why)

Wind storms find the weak points on a roof, and skylights sit right on top of two of them: the penetration through the roof surface and the flashing that seals it. High wind lifts and flexes shingles and flashing, and driven rain gets pushed uphill and sideways into any joint that is not fully sealed — which is why a roof can look intact after a storm but start leaking at the skylights within the next few rains. The durable fix is not to re-caulk the old flashing but to rebuild the roof and re-integrate the skylights with engineered metal flashing. This Johnston home got a new CertainTeed Landmark roof — the dual-layer architectural shingle with a Class A fire rating, StreakFighter algae resistance, and a wind rating built for New England weather — in Weathered Wood, a soft, natural gray-and-tan blend. Underneath it went the full modern weather barrier: ice-and-water shield along the eaves and valleys and up the skylight curbs, and synthetic underlayment across the field, so even if wind drives water past the shingles, the membrane stops it. The skylights were re-flashed with their engineered metal kits — sill, step, and head pieces lapped into the new shingle courses — so water is carried around each unit rather than relying on a bead of sealant a storm can peel loose. Storm damage is also usually an insurance matter, and rebuilding the roof and skylights to a proper standard is what restores the home’s protection for the long term, not just until the next big blow.

Project Photo Gallery

The Johnston home after its storm re-roof in Landmark Weathered Wood

The Weathered Wood roof with a re-flashed skylight

Good To Know: Why do skylights leak after a wind storm?

Because skylights sit on the two parts of a roof a storm is most likely to attack: the penetration through the roof and the flashing that seals it. High wind lifts and flexes shingles and metal flashing, working joints loose, and it drives rain sideways and even uphill, forcing water into any seam that is not fully sealed. A roof can look intact from the ground after a storm and still begin leaking at the skylights over the next several rains, because the flashing there was compromised even though no shingles obviously blew off. That is especially true of skylights that were originally sealed with caulk instead of engineered flashing — the storm peels the caulk loose and the water finds its way in. The reliable fix is to rebuild the roof with a full modern weather barrier and re-integrate the skylights with proper metal flashing: ice-and-water membrane up the curbs, and sill, step, and head flashing lapped into the shingle courses, so water is carried around each unit by layered metal rather than held back by sealant. Because storm damage is usually handled through insurance, it is also the right moment to bring the whole roof and its skylights up to a proper standard rather than patching. On this Johnston home, rebuilding the roof and re-flashing the skylights the correct way is what closes the leak points a wind storm exposes and keeps the next storm out.

Why This Approach Works

A wind storm attacks exactly where skylights sit — the roof penetration and its flashing — so skylights often leak after a storm even when the roof looks intact. Rebuilding the roof with a full weather barrier and re-flashing the skylights with engineered metal closes those points for the long term.

Why Pinnacle

Storm repair around skylights rewards a contractor who rebuilds the roof and re-flashes each unit with engineered metal, restoring protection rather than patching until the next storm. As a VELUX 5-Star Skylight Specialist and CertainTeed ShingleMaster™, Pinnacle qualifies our customers for CertainTeed’s full SureStart™ PLUS extended warranty — coverage most contractors cannot offer. We’ve served Rhode Island since 2012, hold a 5.0-star Google rating across 100+ reviews and an A+ BBB rating — see our full credentials.

Johnston, Rhode Island

Johnston is a wooded, hilly town on Providence’s western edge, its neighborhoods and open lots exposed to the wind that drives the region’s storms. Wind-driven damage to roofs and the skylights set into them is a familiar problem here. A new Landmark roof with properly re-flashed skylights is well suited to how Johnston homes weather a storm. Explore our work across Johnston roofing services.