tubular skylights--does the light look natural?
 

TUBES are GREAT!
Natural lighting can do wonders for a dark room. And most products
offer dampers which allow you to control the amount of light coming
from the tube. Huvco offers the best diffuser I have seen. ( I have
four in my home office.) I swithced out the original two, to the Huvco
diffuser.
www.huvco.com
Check them out, they come highly recommended.
Tobin.

Tobin wrote:

TUBES are GREAT!
Natural lighting can do wonders for a dark room. And most products
offer dampers which allow you to control the amount of light coming
from the tube. Huvco offers the best diffuser I have seen. ( I have
four in my home office.) I swithced out the original two, to the Huvco
diffuser.
www.huvco.com
Check them out, they come highly recommended.
Tobin.

Intersting. My m-in-law has tubular skylights in her bathroom (no other
natural lights) and it makes a huge differnence.

Are there any horizontal variants of these?? We just finished a
basement, and one of the rooms ended up being windowless. Just behind
its rear finished wall in an adjacent unfinished area, there is a
casement window in the foundation...I'd love to move some of that
natural light from that casement window the finished room...if the
fixture didn't look too riduculous.

Anybody familiar with such a product?

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:33:09 -0500, wrote:

Are there any horizontal variants of these?? We just finished a
basement, and one of the rooms ended up being windowless. Just behind
its rear finished wall in an adjacent unfinished area, there is a
casement window in the foundation...I'd love to move some of that
natural light from that casement window the finished room...if the
fixture didn't look too riduculous.

Anybody familiar with such a product?

The sun tubes can be mounted at any angle, including horizontal, but
they do have limits to the number of bends and total run. I don't
think you will have much luck piping light through a room from a
casement window. You would be better off running a tube across that
room and through the wall itself. The collector looks like a
hemi-spherical UFO, and at night it glows from the interior lighting,
so you may not want that showing at an outside wall!

If there was good exposure at that location it could bring in a
substantial amount of light for part of the day. (The ideal location,
of course, is as high as possible on the roof with a full day's worth
of sun exposure.) You could box in the tube and sheetrock it if it
looked too industrial. SolaTube provides tubes of 10, 14 and 21 inches
OD. The smallest size is suitable for a small space like a closet or
bathroom. The 14 inch is great for larger rooms like bedrooms and
small family rooms. Big rooms need multiple tubes to avoid shadows.

Here are some design resources. You could always email these folks
with your question.

http://solatube.com/res_tech_resource_center.php

http://solatube.com/res_performance_chart.php

http://solatube.com/dea_res_edu.php

Good luck!

John



John Davies TLCA 14732
http://home.comcast.net/~johnedavies/
'96 Lexus LX450
'00 Audi A4 1.8T quattro
Spokane WA USA

great info...thanks





John Davies wrote:

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:33:09 -0500, wrote:

Are there any horizontal variants of these?? We just finished a
basement, and one of the rooms ended up being windowless. Just behind
its rear finished wall in an adjacent unfinished area, there is a
casement window in the foundation...I'd love to move some of that
natural light from that casement window the finished room...if the
fixture didn't look too riduculous.

Anybody familiar with such a product?

The sun tubes can be mounted at any angle, including horizontal, but
they do have limits to the number of bends and total run. I don't
think you will have much luck piping light through a room from a
casement window. You would be better off running a tube across that
room and through the wall itself. The collector looks like a
hemi-spherical UFO, and at night it glows from the interior lighting,
so you may not want that showing at an outside wall!

If there was good exposure at that location it could bring in a
substantial amount of light for part of the day. (The ideal location,
of course, is as high as possible on the roof with a full day's worth
of sun exposure.) You could box in the tube and sheetrock it if it
looked too industrial. SolaTube provides tubes of 10, 14 and 21 inches
OD. The smallest size is suitable for a small space like a closet or
bathroom. The 14 inch is great for larger rooms like bedrooms and
small family rooms. Big rooms need multiple tubes to avoid shadows.

Here are some design resources. You could always email these folks
with your question.

http://solatube.com/res_tech_resource_center.php

http://solatube.com/res_performance_chart.php

http://solatube.com/dea_res_edu.php

Good luck!

John

John Davies TLCA 14732
http://home.comcast.net/~johnedavies/
'96 Lexus LX450
'00 Audi A4 1.8T quattro
Spokane WA USA

Darrell wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a tubular skylight installed in my living
room,
which only has windows on one side--the other side is a bit too dark
for my
taste. But what makes me hesitate is the quality of the light. Do
these
kind of skylights give off "real" natural sunlight, or do they look
like
flourescent lights? I don't like flourescent lights, especially for
a
living room. Can anyone advise?
Thanks in advance,
Darrell

My folks have some of these tube skylights. They absolutly love
them... I've seen them and think they are really great too. Don't put
them in bedrooms like one gentleman stated - the moon light may be too
bright to sleep comfortably. My folks put them in the lanudry room and
a dark hallway. I highly recommend these tube skylights.

Steve