Additions & Remodels

Easy, Inexpensive Remodeling With Pure Sunlight

(HIT) - Heightened energy prices mean searching out the brightest and best energy sources. Why not start by adding an element of sunshine to your home renovation and restoration projects?

Using reflective pipes up to 40 ft. in length, Greg Miller, owner of The SunPipe Company, Inc., in Elgin, Illinois, has been helping homes and business bring in free natural light for two decades. Newly enlightened homeowners benefit from brightened indoor settings without the summer heat and the winter heat loss which plague traditional skylights.

The Ultimate Renewable Energy

	This once dungeon-like stairwell is now permanently bright with a SunLight Pipe that performs as well today as when it was originally installed in 1991.

SunPipe’s simple design blends healthy sunlight with any décor and in the case of the previously dismally dark stairway shown here, provides safe passage from dawn to dawn.

Sunshine brightens kitchens, shows off the finest dishware and culinary genius, and starts the day with a healthy dose of Vitamin D. New studies on the sunshine (Vitamin D) underscore the need for appropriate solar exposure as key to a longer and healthier life—even among those with previous sun-damaged skin.

By using daylight to illuminate interior spaces, it has been reported that we could eliminate a major amount of climate changing CO2 in indoor settings, and the heat which they introduce. Can there be any possible justification for not taking advantage of this safe, available, and nonpolluting natural light source?

The highly reflective hollow pipe reflects daylight through the roof and attic into sun-starved rooms. According to Miller, when daylight hits the diffuser, it glows with the equivalence of up to 900, 1500 or even 3000 watts worth of light depending on the diameter of the SunPipe (9", 13" and 21" respectively). Season, the time of day, and type of day (i.e. sunny or overcast), naturally effect the SunPipe’s brightness.

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