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Natural light is healthy, and the tubes deliver that verses LED’s. Plus, if power goes out you still have light. There’s also a small solar powered night light installed with it that provides a nice Federal Tax Credit.

We have an Iris in Osceola Hills, and it has four Solatubes, 1) near the sink in the kitchen (with nightlight), 2) in the laundry room, 3) in the hall bath, 4) in the walk-in closet.

Solar tube for IRIS

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Originally Posted by chrisinva (Post 2421841)

We have an Iris; the front door faces directly south & lanai faces directly north. Kitchen & liv room get minimal natural light as they are sandwiched between garage & lanai.

See attached floorplan. We have 5 eyeball lights in the kitchen and 3 over the island.

Where do you think is best placement for a solatube? We want more light primarily in the kitchen. Thanks.

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I added two solar tubes in my IRIS. One above the kitchen counter and one in the lanai. I installed tinting to the lani windows and it was dark.

The solar tube people will look at where you want them and provide guidance. For example, they mentioned based upon where a light is installed it could affect seeing the TV during the day.

Follow their guidance.

I get plenty of light from the kitchen solar tube.

Sometimes I believe the lights are on in the kitchen when it is the light coming from the solar tube. I added the night light as well with the solar tube. It’s nice at night to have some light in the kitchen area.

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Originally Posted by chrisinva (Post 2421841)

We have an Iris and had The Solar Guys install one in our kitchen in between the sink and stove. The difference is amazing.

I have an Iris also. We added three (3) solar tubes and love them. One is in the kitchen with light aimed at the island near the refrigerator. Great light for cooking and raiding the refrigerator late at night. We also have the night night.
The second is in the entry dining area on the way to the kitchen. If you have an area you read in or do office work, I’d aim the light to help you work. Ours is over the table.
Our third is in the guest bathroom. I put it there originally in case we had really bad storms and power went out. We would have at least one lit bath. Storms in Michigan had long power outages..weeks. We haven’t had a bad storm yet, but that is a popular bathroom. Natural light from the tube is great for doing makeup and reading fine print. That tube has a night lite also, so it is lit at night. Our nightlight batteries were just replaced and lasted 2x what we were quoted.
For the non living spaces: laundry and garage we chose motion sensing led lights. We figured we could always add solar tubes later if needed.
The Solar Guys did our tubes