I have a north facing office that needs more sunlite. I was looking at the mulitude of brand choices for sunlite solar tubes. ODL’s are at home depot-velux as well. I need a 14 inch model-any recomendations-.I have access to solatube’s as well-Whats your experience.I favor the darker flashings on my black comp roof. Mark
Edited 1/17/2008 3:52 pm ET by onokai
Edited 1/17/2008 4:26 pm ET by onokai
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My first thought ( I don't know anything about the other brand - I always use Velux) is if you've had a problem with Velux, then you're really going to be in for trouble with anything else down the road.
I've probably installed 500+ skylights over the last 20 years and the only problems I've had with Velux products were due to installer error except for one seal problem and that was not a big deal to replace, IIRC. I have had problems with lots of other brands.
I'm not real crazy about the flashing of the tubes (any brand I've seen), but I'm not sure how I'd modify it if I could.
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