Serving Los Lunas
Get Skylight Installation in Los Lunas, NM
Skylight installation in Los Lunas costs $2,000–$8,000 per unit, and with 300+ sunny days over the Rio Grande valley there's daylight to spare. In newer Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills floor plans, one well-placed VELUX unit can carry a kitchen or bath all day without a switch flipped.
300+ days of sunshine per year in Los Lunas. Los Lunas is PNM territory: exported solar earns full retail-rate credit, 1:1, with credits banking on your bill from sunny months into winter.
We serve these Los Lunas neighborhoods:
Los Lunas Hills, Huning Ranch, Valencia, Tome, El Cerro
Skylight Installation in Los Lunas: What to Know
300+ days of sunshine
Sun Days
$155/month avg.
Avg. Electric Bill
Excellent — 6.3 peak sun hours
Solar Potential
Moderate — monsoon season
Hail Risk
Village of Los Lunas Community Development
Permit Office
Newer subdivisions & valley acreage homes
Housing Stock
Daylight the Builders Left Out
Los Lunas' newer floor plans bury real living space in the middle of the house — kitchens open to great rooms, interior baths, laundry rooms with no exterior wall — and production builders rarely spent money on skylights. The result is electric light burning at noon in a town with 300+ sunny days a year. On the young pitched shingle roofs of Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills, correcting that is a clean, contained project: standard flashing, modern framing, done without touching the floor plan.
Older Valley Homes Earn Them Differently
Out in Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia, decades of additions have a way of landlocking rooms that once had windows. A tubular unit brings real daylight back to those interior spaces, and larger units transform kitchens under the valley's open sky — once we've confirmed the roof and framing are ready to take them.
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 Los Lunas 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plan on $2,000–$8,000 per unit installed — tubular daylight units at the low end, large vented or smart skylights at the top. The modern pitched shingle roofs across Los Lunas' newer subdivisions are the easiest case: standard flashing kits, clean framing, predictable installs. Older valley roofs get a condition check first, so you're not setting a new skylight into a roof that's nearly done.
The interior kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, and hallways that open floor plans tuck away from exterior walls — common in newer Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills layouts. With 300+ sunny days overhead, one well-placed fixed unit can light those rooms all day, and a vented unit adds fresh-air exhaust where steam collects. We place and size per room, not per catalog.
Usually, yes. On older valley roofs we check shingle life and framing before cutting anything — if the roof is within a few years of replacement, it's smarter to sequence the two together. Homes that have grown by addition sometimes hide odd rafter spacing, so we confirm structure first and choose the unit size the framing honestly supports.
Los Lunas is PNM territory, so exported solar energy earns a full retail-rate credit, 1:1, banked on your bill month to month. With 300+ sunny days a year in the Rio Grande valley, most Los Lunas solar homes bank enough summer credit to carry their winter usage.
The Village of Los Lunas Community Development department issues building and electrical permits inside village limits; homes in unincorporated Valencia County — Tome, El Cerro, Valencia — permit through the county. Epex routes and files the right package either way, along with PNM interconnection paperwork for solar and battery projects.
We schedule Los Lunas and Valencia County work in dedicated crew blocks from our Albuquerque base, about 25 minutes up I-25 — close enough for same-week service calls, structured enough that your install doesn't lose days to commuting. Huning Ranch, Los Lunas Hills, Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia are all regular territory for us.