Serving Albuquerque
Get Skylight Installation in Albuquerque, NM
Skylight installation in Albuquerque costs $2,000–$8,000 per unit, and with 310+ sunny days the return is immediate: free daylight in kitchens, baths, and hallways that wall windows can't reach. VELUX-certified installation with flashing detailed for monsoon rain, not just average weather.
310+ days of sunshine per year in Albuquerque. PNM credits Albuquerque solar homes at the full retail rate for every kilowatt-hour exported — 1:1 net metering, with credits rolling forward on your bill month to month.
We serve these Albuquerque neighborhoods:
Four Hills, Nob Hill, Tanoan, High Desert, North Valley, South Valley, Northeast Heights, Westside, Corrales, Los Ranchos, Taylor Ranch, Paradise Hills, Sandia Heights, Ventana Ranch, Uptown, Old Town
Skylight Installation in Albuquerque: What to Know
310+ days of sunshine
Sun Days
$120/month avg.
Avg. Electric Bill
Excellent — 6.4 peak sun hours
Solar Potential
Moderate — monsoon season
Hail Risk
City of Albuquerque Planning Dept.
Permit Office
Ranch & Pueblo-style, many 35+ years old
Housing Stock
Daylighting the Middle of the House
Albuquerque floor plans — especially the metro's older ranch layouts — tend to bury kitchens, bathrooms, and hallways in the middle of the house where wall windows can't help. That's the skylight's whole job: with 310+ days of sun overhead, a single well-placed unit replaces daytime electric lighting in the rooms you use most, and a tubular unit brings real daylight to a hallway or closet for the least money in the catalog.
The local engineering is flashing and orientation. Monsoon rain arrives sideways and hard, so we flash for storm bursts rather than average rainfall, and we place units to catch light without importing July heat. On flat and parapet roofs we curb-mount low-slope-rated units — and if a reroof is anywhere in your plans, we'll bundle both so the roof warranty and skylight flashing come from one accountable crew.
Skylight installation in New Mexico costs $2,000–$8,000 per unit and delivers up to three times more natural light than a wall window of the same size. In a state with 300+ days of sunshine, that's free daytime lighting for the rooms wall windows can't reach — interior bathrooms, kitchens, hallways, stairwells. Epex is VELUX-certified and installs fixed, vented, tubular, and smart skylights, all with low-E glass, proper flashing, and a 10-year installation warranty.
Types We Install
- Fixed skylights — Maximum light, no moving parts, lowest cost
- Vented skylights — Open to exhaust hot air; the right pick for kitchens and bathrooms
- Tubular skylights — Small-footprint light tubes for hallways and closets, installed in a day
- Smart skylights — Remote-controlled with rain sensors and integrated blinds
Every unit gets low-E glass — non-negotiable at New Mexico UV levels — and flashing detailed for monsoon downpours, not just average rainfall. A skylight that leaks in year three wasn't cheap, whatever it cost.
The High-Desert Details That Matter
Placement is a design decision here, not an afterthought. A generously sized south- or west-facing skylight that would be pleasant in a cloudy climate can overheat a Albuquerque room in July; we orient and size units — and spec blinds or diffusers — around actual sun exposure so you get the light without the heat load. On flat and low-slope roofs, common across New Mexico, we curb-mount units engineered for ponding and UV rather than forcing pitched-roof products where they don't belong.
Bundle It With Your Reroof
If a roof replacement is anywhere on your horizon, that's the moment to add skylights: the crew is already on the roof, the underlayment is open, and the incremental cost drops substantially. Because Epex does roofing in-house, the skylight flashing and the roof warranty come from the same company — no finger-pointing if anything ever needs service. We coordinate both as a single project with one permit package and one timeline.
What Our Albuquerque Customers Say
Epex handled our solar installation and roof replacement as one project. They found hail damage we didn't know about, got our insurance claim approved, and installed a beautiful new roof with solar panels on top. One team, one timeline, zero headaches.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plan on $2,000–$8,000 per unit installed: tubular units at the low end, large vented or smart skylights with blinds at the top. Bundling with a reroof drops the incremental cost substantially since the crew and underlayment are already open — worth timing if a roof is in your future.
A badly placed one, yes. At 310+ sunny days and 5,300 feet, a big west-facing skylight can cook a room in July. We orient and size per room, spec low-E glass on every unit, and add blinds or diffusers where the exposure demands it — daylight without the heat load is a design outcome, not luck.
Yes — curb-mounted units engineered for low-slope membranes are exactly right for the flat and parapet sections on ABQ's Pueblo-style and ranch homes. What we won't do is force a pitched-roof product onto a flat roof; ponding water finds bad flashing every monsoon season.
PNM credits you at the full retail electricity rate for every kilowatt-hour your system exports — true 1:1 net metering. Credits bank on your bill and roll forward, so summer overproduction offsets winter usage. Most Albuquerque solar homes end up paying close to PNM's minimum monthly service charge.
Epex files and manages every permit through the City of Albuquerque Planning Department, including electrical and building permits, plus PNM interconnection paperwork for solar and battery projects. Homes in unincorporated Bernalillo County or the East Mountains permit through the county instead — we handle that routing too.
The two forces that matter here are UV and monsoon season. At 5,300 feet with 310+ sunny days, UV ages shingles and cheap solar components faster than national averages, and July–September monsoons bring hail and hard rain. We spec Class 4 impact-rated shingles and tier-1 panels rated for high-desert service.
All of them — Northeast Heights, Westside, North and South Valley, Nob Hill, High Desert, Four Hills, Taylor Ranch, and the East Mountains, plus Los Ranchos and the metro's surrounding communities. Our crews are based in Albuquerque, so there's no travel surcharge anywhere in the metro.