Tubular Daylighting Devices Add Great Light and Minimize Daytime Electrical Usage!
A well-planned custom home can use eco-friendly and ‘build green’ principles by including tubular daylighting devices such as those offered by Solar Concepts of Arizona. Yet, these great daylight sources are not limited to new construction. Sometimes know matter how well a house is planned or designed, once it is constructed an area may be revealed that just doesn’t seem to get enough daylight. Perhaps it is the laundry room, a long hallway, a master closet, or even a kitchen built within the interior of a home. As AZ custom home builders, we once built a home with an interior located laundry room without windows. This room seemed like a huge closet in absolute darkness when the lights were out. In this laundry room, we installed Solatubes for the homeowners. These made a dramatic difference creating a fabulous daylight source, but also improving the homeowners overall happiness with the laundry room. Not usually a problem in Arizona, but getting enough daylight benefits your mental and physical health. Daily exposure to natural light is known to increase concentration, boost energy levels, improve mental and physical well being, and it clearly helped these homeowners become much happier with their laundry room.
Solatubes are a terrific eco-friendly and ‘build green’ project for any home. They offer a great, environmentally friendly way to bring pure, natural light into your home. Solatubes can be great energy savers, as they can add so much daylight that interior lights may not be required during daylight hours, saving daylight usage of electricity in the home and reducing your carbon footprint.
Solatubes are a great strategy for adding daylight to those areas of a home that just seem a bit too dark or as an eco-friendly home improvement. Solatubes provide an incredible amount of light for such a small device. Solatubes capture sunlight on the rooftop and redirects it down a reflective tube into interior spaces. The tubing fits between rafters and easily installs without structural modifications. At the ceiling level, an attractive diffuser spreads the light evenly throughout the room. Solatubes provide a great amount of daylight for their size, and can be quite cost effective as compared to much larger skylights or the addition of windows. A great advantage of Solatubes is their flexibility; they can be installed in almost any room including rooms without direct roof access. This is because the tubing used to connect the light-collecting dome and the light diffuser can be installed with bends in it. They’re easy and affordable to install in almost any room.
As part of a ‘build green’ program, you may receive a tax credit of 30% of the product cost of each Solatube eChoice Daylighting System installed in your home, up to $1500. Visit the Federal Tax Credits page at Solar Concepts of Arizona for more information.
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