A Dramatic Ridge Run of Skylights in a Little Compton, RI Coastal Home

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On Commons St in Little Compton, a shingle-style coastal home was ready for something special: a run of skylights set along the ridge to pour daylight straight down into the living space. Turning that vision into a watertight reality took careful curb work, precise flashing, and an eye for how the light would fall inside. A run like this is as much a design decision as a roofing one, and it only succeeds when the waterproofing is flawless and the spacing looks deliberate from both the roof and the room.

Scope of Work

Our crew laid out the skylight openings along the ridge line, framed and set each curb square and true, and wrapped every opening with ice-and-water shield before a single unit went in. We fit each skylight to its curb and flashing kit, integrated the flashing into the surrounding shingle courses, and finished the interior light wells so daylight carries cleanly down to the room below. See more of our skylight work to picture how the finished run looks from inside.

What We Installed (And Why)

This home received a coordinated run of deck-mounted skylights arranged along the ridge — the most dramatic way to bring daylight into a room, and also the most demanding to install correctly. Each unit sits on a properly built curb and is sealed with its matching flashing kit, so the openings are not just holes in the roof but engineered assemblies designed to keep water out for the life of the roof.

The detail that makes the difference is what happens beneath the shingles. We wrapped each opening with ice-and-water shield and wove the flashing into the surrounding courses so runoff is guided around and past every skylight, never toward the glass. Inside, the finished light wells shape how the daylight spreads, turning a row of openings into a single sweep of natural light across the ceiling. Deck-mounting the units keeps them sitting low and clean against the roof plane, so from the yard the run reads as an intentional part of the shingle-style design rather than a cluster of boxes bolted onto the roof.

Project Photo Gallery

Natural light pours in through the new skylight

Deck-mounted skylight set into the finished roof

Clean skylight flashing detail on the completed roof

Good To Know: Won’t a whole row of skylights be prone to leaks?

Not when they are flashed properly. A skylight leaks because of how it was installed, not because of how many there are — the risk lives entirely in the curb, the flashing kit, and the ice-and-water wrap around the opening. When each unit is set on a square curb, wrapped, and woven into the shingle courses so water is always directed around it, a full ridge run is every bit as watertight as a single skylight. The payoff is a flood of daylight you simply cannot get any other way.

Why This Approach Works

A ridge run of skylights works because every unit is treated as its own waterproofing project while the row is planned as one clean composition. Building true curbs, wrapping the openings, and integrating the flashing into the shingles means water is managed at each skylight and across the whole run. The result is a roof that stays dry and an interior transformed by daylight — the kind of upgrade that changes how a coastal home feels from morning to evening.

Why Pinnacle

Skylights are a specialty, and Pinnacle Roofing & Skylights holds the qualification that proves it: we are a VELUX 5-Star Skylight Specialist, the top tier of skylight installers. We have served Rhode Island since 2012 and back our work with a 5.0-star Google rating, 100+ five-star reviews, and an A+ rating from the BBB, all supported by full Rhode Island licensing and NRCA and RIBA membership. For a job where flashing precision decides everything, that experience is exactly what you want on the roof.

Little Compton, RI

Little Compton is one of Rhode Island’s most scenic coastal towns, a place of open farmland, stone walls, and shingle-style homes overlooking the water. Houses here are built to make the most of the light and the views, which makes a well-placed run of skylights feel right at home. We are proud to help homeowners across Little Compton bring more daylight into their living spaces.