Bringing Daylight Into a North Kingstown Home: VELUX Skylights and a New Roof

Some rooms in a house never get enough light no matter how many lamps you add — an interior bath, a hallway, a room boxed in by neighboring rooms with no exterior wall to put a window in. The fix for those spaces comes from above. This North Kingstown home got VELUX skylights set into a new CertainTeed Landmark PRO roof in Colonial Slate, turning dim interior rooms into bright, daylit spaces. 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 North Kingstown home had VELUX skylights installed into a new CertainTeed Landmark PRO roof in Colonial Slate, bringing natural daylight into interior rooms that no wall window could reach. This project is in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, finished in CertainTeed Landmark PRO — Colonial Slate.

Scope of Work

The work joined a full re-roof with the skylights that make the most of it. The steep slopes received the complete weather system — ice-and-water shield at the eaves and valleys, synthetic underlayment, and new drip edge and starter — before the Landmark PRO shingles in Colonial Slate were coursed up the roof. The VELUX skylights were set into the new roof and flashed with their unit-matched metal flashing kits, with ice-and-water membrane lapped up each curb, so each opening became a sealed part of the roof system. Inside, a skylight shaft carries the daylight down from the roof to the ceiling of the room below, spreading even, natural light into a space that a wall window could never serve. Doing the skylights as part of the new roof meant the openings were made watertight from the first rain, with no cutting into finished shingles later.

What We Installed (And Why)

This project pairs a premium roof with the daylighting only a skylight can provide. CertainTeed Landmark PRO is the heavier-weight architectural shingle — a 130 mph wind rating, Max Def color depth, StreakFighter algae resistance, and eligibility for CertainTeed’s strongest SureStart™ PLUS warranty — here in Colonial Slate, a refined gray blend with the look of natural slate. The skylights are VELUX, and their value here is the light. A skylight delivers dramatically more daylight than a same-sized wall window because it faces the open sky rather than a fence, a neighbor, or a shaded side yard, and it distributes that light down through the room from above rather than from one wall. That makes it the only real daylighting option for the rooms that need it most — interior baths, closets, stairwells, and central rooms with no exterior wall. VELUX units are sold as No Leak Skylights because each is flashed with an engineered metal kit rather than sealed with caulk, so the daylight comes with none of the leak risk people fear from an older skylight. The skylight shaft that carries the light down to the ceiling is finished so the opening reads as a clean, bright well of daylight rather than a hole in the roof. The result is a room transformed: a space that was dark and lamp-dependent becomes naturally lit through the day, on a roof built to protect the home for decades.

Project Photo Gallery

The North Kingstown home after its Landmark PRO re-roof with VELUX skylights

The finished Colonial Slate roof from the side

Daylight pouring through an installed VELUX skylight

Good To Know: How much more light does a skylight give than a window?

A skylight typically delivers far more usable daylight than a wall window of the same size, and it does it in places a window cannot help at all. Two things make the difference. First, exposure: a skylight faces straight up at the open sky, which is the brightest part of a room’s surroundings, while a wall window faces horizontally into whatever is there — a neighboring house, a fence, trees, or a shaded side yard that blocks much of the light. Second, distribution: light entering from overhead spreads down and across a room evenly, rather than pouring in from one wall and leaving the far side dim. That combination is why a single well-placed skylight can brighten a whole room, and why skylights are the only daylighting option for the spaces that need it most — interior bathrooms, hallways, closets, stairwells, and central rooms that have no exterior wall to hold a window. Those rooms are dark not because they lack lamps but because daylight has no way in from the side; a skylight opens a path to the sky directly above them. On this North Kingstown home, that is exactly what the skylights do — turn rooms that relied on electric light all day into bright, naturally lit spaces — while the new Landmark PRO roof keeps the whole assembly watertight.

Why This Approach Works

A skylight brings far more daylight than a same-sized wall window because it faces the open sky and spreads light down from above — making it the only real daylighting option for interior rooms with no exterior wall. Flashed into a new roof with engineered metal flashing, it delivers that light with no leak risk.

Why Pinnacle

Skylight work rewards a contractor certified in both the roof and skylight systems, so the openings are placed for the best light and flashed as a sealed part of the new roof. 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.

North Kingstown, Rhode Island

North Kingstown stretches along Narragansett Bay through historic Wickford village and the neighborhoods around Quonset, with a housing stock that runs from Colonial-era homes to mid-century capes and ranches. Many of those homes have the deep floor plans and interior rooms that skylights transform, and the mix of roof pitches that rewards a roofer comfortable integrating glass into a new roof. A Landmark PRO roof with well-placed VELUX skylights suits both the architecture and the way North Kingstown homeowners want to live in their rooms. Explore our work across North Kingstown roofing services.