Roofing Contractor in Oradell, NJ

Yes. That is exactly what we did on an Oradell roof in September 2026. The homeowner wanted the skylight gone for good, so we took off the old unit and its curb, framed the opening with new 2×6 rafters tied into the existing framing, decked it with new plywood, covered the patched area with new ice-and-water shield, and blended new GAF shingles into the roof around it. The rest of the roof was left alone. Our scope on this work is the roof side, so ask us at the estimate how the ceiling below gets finished and who does it.

Because a skylight opening is a gap in the framing, not just a gap in the shingles. Framing usually gets cut or headed off to make room for a skylight when it goes in, so there is nothing solid spanning that space. Sheet over it without framing it back in and the decking has nothing to bear on: it can flex under snow and foot traffic, fasteners work loose, and that seam becomes the weak point on your roof, which is exactly where water is waiting. New rafters put the structure back first, so the plywood, the ice-and-water shield and the shingles sit on something that behaves like the rest of the roof. Two fair questions to ask anyone quoting it: how are you framing the opening, and does the borough want a permit for the framing.

It depends on why it is bothering you. If it leaks, dumps heat in the summer and loses it in the winter, or the seals have simply aged out, and you would not miss the daylight, removing it and closing the roof is permanent, with nothing left up there to fail. If the room below depends on that light, or you are redoing the room and want to keep it bright, a new unit with a proper flashing kit is usually the better call. Tell us how the room is used and we will tell you what we would do on our own house.

We will not quote a number sight unseen, and you should be careful with anyone who does. What drives the price is the size of the opening, how much framing it takes to span it, how much decking goes back, how the roof is reached and what it takes to work up there safely, and the age and condition of the shingles we have to blend into. If the roof around the skylight is already near the end of its life, closing one hole in it may not be the right place to spend the money, and we will say so. The estimate is free and it is on site.

We blend the new shingles into the existing roof rather than dropping in an obvious rectangle, which is how the Oradell roof was closed. Be realistic about color, though. The shingles on your house have weathered for years and the ones out of a fresh bundle have not, so on day one there can be a visible difference in tone, and we are not going to promise you it disappears. We will tell you what to expect before we start. And if the surrounding roof is close enough to the end of its life that a blended patch would stand out, we will tell you that too, instead of putting fresh shingles on a roof that needs replacing.

It comes out too. The curb is the raised wooden frame the skylight sat on, and on the Oradell roof the crew cut it free from the deck with a reciprocating saw after the unit was off. Leaving it buried under new shingles would put old, weathered framing in the middle of the new assembly, a pocket that holds water and a bump that telegraphs through the shingles.

New ice-and-water shield. It is a self-adhering membrane that bonds to the deck and seals itself around the fasteners driven through it. On the Oradell roof it went over the patched area, because the line where new plywood meets the old deck is the most likely place for water to find a way in, so it got a full layer of membrane before a single shingle went down.