Blind or dimmer for tubular skylights

[pbkmaine]

We have a tubular skylight or solar tube right in the middle of our living room, installed by a previous owner. It's too bright in there to watch TV during the day. Retrofitting it with a dimmer would be very expensive, since it is an older model. Or so we have been told. Has anyone figured out a way to dim or cap theirs?

[Lauren Sweeny]

We noticed a lot oh heat coming thru ours. I used the film left over from window tinting. I had asked the widow tinting guy for a little extra piece. You may have luck getting some tint sheet at Loews etc.I just put it in in July,noticed heat difference ,seems like no problem as of now. Hope this works for you.

[cattywampus]

Had solar tubes. :rant-rave: NEVER again.

Heat Gain in rooms during daytime hours was significant. :shocked:

Every month the 4 to 6 days of Nearly Full and FULL Moon
brought in TOO MUCH light at night.

Lightning at night made rooms EERIE, to say the least.

During full moon at night, the slowly moving ceiling fan caused
dim/bright - dim/bright real bad.
Compare the flash effect of the fan blades temporarily
blocking the moonlight to strobe lights on :police: a police car..
Was driving me mucho loco. :loco:

Was going to paint the lens covers in the house with blackout :icon_twisted: paint,
then had a temporary flash of sanity and found :read: someone
to install :$: L.E.D. lights which fit the circular opening .
Also put them on dimmer switches.:$:

Problem Solved. :thumbup: