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What company did your solar tubes. Are you satisfied with the install? The price?
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Solar Guys - excellent workmanship - highly recommend - been 8 years and we still walk around thinking we have left lights on! We made two major improvements to our home, and this is one of them!
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What company did your solar tubes. Are you satisfied with the install? The price?
We are having Solar Guys put in our fourth solar tube on Tuesday - they currently have a special - 14" tube $599 i/o $729

We highly recommend them
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We are having Solar Guys put in our fourth solar tube on Tuesday - they currently have a special - 14" tube $599 i/o $729

We highly recommend them
Those of you that have had solar tubes installed in a Begonia, what rooms would you recommend putting them in? We are building this spring and taking lots of notes from all the great suggestions we have seen in TOTV!
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Solar Guys. Don't remember the price but it was a long time ago and I'm very happy with them.
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We have a Begonia and installed a tube in the kitchen, it made a big difference.
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We have a Begonia and installed a tube in the kitchen, it made a big difference.
Where in the kitchen did you have it installed? Is it in the middle of the kitchen or the breakfast nook area? We were also thinking of maybe putting on in the master bath.
I see that at the top of you page you are in Fernandina. We are building in section 206 on Abana Path and can't wait! Where is your house?
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Those of you that have had solar tubes installed in a Begonia, what rooms would you recommend putting them in? We are building this spring and taking lots of notes from all the great suggestions we have seen in TOTV!
In our Begonia, we had a small tube put in the guest bath and the laundry and larger tubes installed in the kitchen and in the center of the livingroom area. They were all very bright and helped to light up the areas. The best place that you can put one if you are only going to put one is the laundry area. There are no windows there and when you come in from the garage, you have to have some light. Not so with the solar tube. Depends on how your house sits on your lot, you may not need one in the guest bath. The installer from Solar Guys knew where the best spots to put them were.
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The installer from Solar Guys knew where the best spots to put them were.
We too went with the suggestions from the installer. We had one in our cathedral ceiling in the living area and one in the master bath. These people know what they are doing.
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We had Solar Guys for our three solar tubes. They were installed 2 years ago. We love them. One in each bath and one in laundry room.
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Another vote for Solar Guys. Solar tubes light up your life. They installed five tubes for us, one in kitchen, one in dining room, two in living room, one in a bathroom with no window.
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Pretty much any contractor can put in solar tubes and for much less than Solar Guys. They quoted me $737 for 1 tube and I had a private contractor install one for $520. Works great, no leaks and bright light!
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We had The Solarguys install our solartube and we are very pleased with the outcome. The opening into our kitchen looks like an upscale light fixture - very attractive bronze with a globe. The technician game exactly when they said he would, was very clean and did the entire install in about an hour and a half. No fuss, no muss.

As for the expense, I'm not sure what others pay but we required extra tubing because of the roof height but we were okay with the cost.
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The tube is installed in the middle of the kitchen. We live on Killington Loop.
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Solar Guys - they installed three in our Lantana - made an exceptional difference. They are very professional - best investment we have made in our home.
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