What Is a Tubular Skylight?

Tubular skylights are highly innovative and energy efficient lighting systems. The capped cylindrical dome allows natural sunlight to enter a room through its highly reflective light pipe. The mirror-like light pipe allows the light to scatter 100% evenly. A tubular skylight minimizes space and in the end impact on your roof. It's engineered to be weather-tight and leak-proof. Why tubular instead of traditional skylights? The highly reflective mirror-like light pipe allows the tubular skylight to emit more light than traditional skylights. Tubular skylights are far more energy efficient than traditional skylights. Tubular skylights are designed with a sealed shaft that minimizes the transfer of heat or cold into your home. This is a great feature as traditional skylights usually generate heat. Tubular Skylights scatter 100% of the natural light spectrum through the use of a diffuser, thereby eliminating the spot light issue commonly found with the traditional system. 99% of the suns ha ... more

A tubular skylight is a device that captures light from the roof of a building, and then channels that light through specially designed tubes to into a room somewhere below. The tube can be straight, curved, or jointed. The benefits of tubular skylights include both financial and health benefits, as well as a certain level of convenience. The tubular skylight begins with a glass dome installed in the roof. The dome is usually no bigger than 12 inches (30.5 cm) in diameter, but is specifically designed to collect as much light as possible. Thus, even a small dome can provide a great deal of light, even on cloudy days. In some cases, it may completely replace the need for artificial daytime lighting in the room. The manufacturers of tubular skylight systems say the energy benefits gained from them are significant. With only a small dome of glass, and the tube being sealed and insulated, outside air intrusion is minimized. Further, most manufacturers also include a light diffuser with tub ... more

Tubular skylights are highly innovative and energy efficient lighting systems. The capped cylindrical dome allows natural sunlight to enter a room through its highly reflective light pipe. The mirror-like light pipe allows for the light scatter 100% evenly. A tubular skylight minimizes space and in the end impact on your roof. It engineered to be weather-tight and leak-proof. Why tubular instead of traditional skylights? The highly reflective mirror-like light pipe allows the tubular skylight to emit more light than traditional skylights. Tubular skylights are far more energy efficient than traditional skylights. Tubular skylights are designed with a sealed shaft that minimizes the transfer of heat of cold into your home. This is a great feature as traditional skylights usually generate heat. Tubular Skylights scatter 100% of the natural light spectrum through the use of a diffuser, thereby eliminating the spot light issue commonly found with the traditional system. 99% of the suns har ... more

How Does it Work? A tubular skylight is a skylight in which light is collected by a dome and distributed through a tube. It operates in several stages: • A transparent dome is installed on the exterior of the building, in order to collect natural light. • By means if its reflective surface, the collected light is directed into a tube that leads to the room which requires lighting. • The light is then distributed into the room by a diffuser attached to the end of the tube. ... more