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[KNat <knat AT sprintmail.com>]

Viking wrote:

> Ah! A sun piper!  Please elaborate and tell me how many sun pipes you
> have and if you have found any negatives for them..like, do you get
> leaks around the pipe?  Did you install these yourself or were they
> built in at the time your home was constructed.
>  
Other questions take some looking because they have been around so long 
and were found odd places.
This one though I personally did and really like. I had dark hallways 
under a 5 foot attic space. One place in the attic someone had imagined 
they'd put a furnace (no heat when we bought this repo house.) The 
furnace was propane and there was no way to get deliveries to that 
location so I pulled it out and had the first hole. 19 inch standard 
chimney hole and I cut through the ceiling below it and added a Sun 
Tube. The fittings with it are great and even a novice like me, back 
then, couldn't make it leak. I added an low volt electric light in the 
tube so at night it is a regular hall fixture and loved it. So I added a 
couple more. The regular skylights were added by a "handyman" and leak 
unless pampered totally. The Sun Tube just works. It does make a column 
in the attic to walk around doing storage but, frankly, I feel really 
good about the choice when I walk around so no issue there. I got a 
rigid side type and returned it in favor of the accordion pleat mylar. 
The fudge factor is worth it and, although it was probably the diffuser 
design, the accordion was brighter.

Kathyann