Transform Spaces with Natural Light
Our custom skylights are built specifically for your project in our fabrication shop, ensuring a perfect fit for your roof structure and architectural style
Custom Skylights
A well-designed skylight changes everything about a room. Since 1894, Wagner and Son has been designing and fabricating custom skylights that bring beautiful daylight into homes, churches, and commercial buildings throughout Chicago and beyond.
Our custom skylights are built specifically for your project in our fabrication shop, ensuring a perfect fit for your roof structure and architectural style. Whether you're adding light to a dark interior space, creating a dramatic feature, or restoring historic skylights, we have the expertise to design and install skylights that perform beautifully for decades.
Custom Skylight Services
Residential Skylights
Home skylights transform living spaces by flooding rooms with natural daylight. We design and fabricate custom residential skylights for kitchens, bathrooms, stairwells, hallways, and living rooms. We build both fixed skylights and operable tilt skylight windows that open for ventilation.
Each residential skylight is custom-fabricated to fit your specific roof opening and pitch. We account for Chicago's weather extremes, ensuring proper insulation and weatherproofing. Our installations are watertight and properly flashed to prevent leaks.
Commercial Skylights
Commercial buildings benefit enormously from natural daylighting. Our commercial skylights reduce energy costs, improve workplace environments, and create more appealing interior spaces. We design and install skylights for office buildings, retail spaces, warehouses, restaurants, and other commercial properties.
Commercial skylight projects often involve larger units, multiple skylights, or integration with existing HVAC and structural systems. We work with architects, contractors, and building owners to develop skylight solutions that meet building codes, energy requirements, and aesthetic goals. Our fabrication capability allows us to create custom sizes and configurations that standard skylight manufacturers can't provide.
Church Skylights
Churches present unique skylight opportunities. Natural light in worship spaces creates atmosphere and reduces the need for artificial lighting during daytime services. We've designed and installed custom church skylights in sanctuaries, chapels, narthexes, and church domes throughout the region.
Church skylights require sensitivity to the building's architectural character and sacred purpose. We design skylights that enhance worship spaces without compromising historical integrity or creating unwanted glare on altars and worship areas. Our church skylight work often involves complex roof geometries and coordination with other restoration activities.
Historic Skylight Restoration
Many historic buildings feature original skylights that have deteriorated or been covered over. We restore historic skylights, rebuilding them to original specifications while incorporating modern weatherproofing improvements. Our restoration work maintains the visual appearance of original skylights while addressing structural and waterproofing failures.
We can work from photographs, architectural drawings, or remaining fragments to recreate historic skylight designs accurately. Restored skylights return natural light to buildings as the original architects intended.
Skylight Repair & Replacement
Existing skylights eventually need repair or replacement. Leaking skylights, broken glass, failed seals, and deteriorated frames are common problems we address. Our skylight repair services include resealing units, replacing glazing, repairing or replacing frames, and upgrading weatherproofing systems.
When repair isn't practical, we fabricate replacement skylights that match your existing units or provide improved performance. We can replicate obsolete skylight designs or upgrade to more energy-efficient configurations while maintaining exterior appearance. Our replacement skylights are built to fit existing roof openings, minimizing the scope and cost of replacement work.
Custom Skylight Design
Some projects need skylights that don't fit standard configurations. Our fabrication shop creates truly custom skylights—unusual shapes, specific dimensions, integrated ventilation systems, or historical reproductions. We work from your ideas, architectural drawings, or collaborate with you to design skylight solutions for challenging situations.
Custom skylight fabrication allows us to accommodate odd roof pitches, integrate with existing architecture, incorporate decorative metalwork, or create dramatic design features. If you can envision it, we can probably build it. Our metalworking capabilities extend to ornamental frames, custom flashing systems, and specialized mounting configurations.
Why Choose Wagner and Son for Skylights
Custom Capabilities
Our in-house fabrication shop means your skylight is built specifically for your project, not adapted from standard sizes. We control quality, dimensions, and details from start to finish.
Installation Expertise
Skylights only work if they're installed correctly. We understand roof structures, proper flashing techniques, and weatherproofing requirements. Our installations don't leak because we do them right the first time.
Experience Across Building Types
We've installed skylights in century-old homes, modern commercial buildings, historic churches, and everything between. That breadth of experience means we understand the specific requirements of different building types and architectural styles.
Quality Materials & Weather Performance
Chicago weather demands durable skylights. We use quality glazing, proper insulation, and weather-resistant materials that perform through harsh winters and hot summers. Our skylights are built to last.
Architectural Understanding
We don't just cut holes in roofs. We understand how skylights affect a building's appearance, energy performance, and interior experience. Our designs enhance your building rather than compromise it.
Additional Services
Wagner and Son provides comprehensive architectural metalwork beyond commercial applications:
Residential Sheet Metal
We create custom cornices, skylights, cladding, ornamental pieces, and gutter systems for homeowners throughout the Chicago area.
Custom Architectural Fabrication
Our shop fabricates specialized roof metals, copings, gravel stops, conductor heads, scuppers, and custom pieces for unique architectural challenges
Church Restoration
We restore church domes, crosses, and ornamental metalwork, bringing historic religious buildings back to their original beauty.
Years in Business
Projects and counting
Let's Bring Natural Light to your space
If you're considering skylights for your home, commercial building, or church—whether new installation, restoration, or replacement—we're ready to discuss your project. Our team will assess your building, review your lighting goals, and provide detailed proposals for custom skylight solutions.
We've been designing and fabricating custom skylights in Chicago, throughout the suburbs, and nationwide since 1894 because we deliver quality craftsmanship at competitive prices. Natural light improves how spaces feel and function—our skylights are built to deliver that light reliably for decades.
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