At Solar Industries, safety is a priority on every project. We provide burglar bars and external fall protection screens™ designed for our skylights to help create a secure rooftop environment. Our team has extensive knowledge of rooftop safety requirements and current safety codes, ensuring that each solution meets the highest standards.
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We use a high-quality, true cast acrylic double-dome design that is drop-formed to preserve the material’s UV properties. As a result, our domes experience minimal yellowing, approximately 3% over 20 years. In contrast, many competitors use injection-molded plastic domes that can yellow by as much as 15% in as little as five years. The outer dome captures incoming light, while the inner dome evenly distributes that light down the tube for consistent illumination.
Our domes come factory sealed to the tube using a leakproof seal method. The outside dome assembly is sealed to the tube section with a high-quality silicone sealant. This means there is no sealing of the unit on the job site, just a little caulking around the roof jack.
Our tubular skylight installs through a paintable galvanized steel roof jack with a storm collar. By using this method, rather than using a plastic or fiberglass flashing, you are allowed much more flexibility. For instance, you may trim the flashing to accommodate whatever roof pitch you have. The flashing is multipitched from a flat roof application to a 6:12 pitch with a 12:12 pitch flashing available.
The heart of the design is the pipe itself. We use a finish on our aluminum, versus a film which causes distortion of light. The finish is a silver etching process which plasma fuses the silver to the aluminum. This finish can never peel or delaminate, like most films will after time. Due to the advanced variable pitched flashing we use, most installations do not require elbows. We recommend that you keep the tube straight for maximized light transmission, but do offer elbows for those really tight installations.
When the Skyview® Tubelight is properly installed, it requires no maintenance. That means no dust, cobwebs, or bugs in your skylight diminishing the output of light over time. We achieve this by providing high quality seals at all points of entry.
The Skyview® Tubelight is available in two sizes, an 8″ diameter that will approximately illuminate up to 150 square feet, and a 12″ diameter approximately up to 300 square feet. As with all of our skylights the Skyview® Tubelight is covered under a lifetime warranty.
