Is there any special devices which would bring sunlight to your dark rooms?

Question

If the room dosen't have window or direct access to sunlight.

Answer 1

you could fit a sun tube ..externally they look like a small velux type window .but with a dark framework ..then you can either fit a solid tube ..which is very highly polished..like chrome ..or you can fit a flexy tube type ..which is all so highly polished..or you can join them together and fit both ..the flexy one is for when you don't have direct access and need to bend the light ..the rigid tube gives the best results ..at the other end ..in the room its self ..you get a round opaque fitting which is installed in the ceiling .the normal diameter of this fitting is 450mm ..its difficult to get bigger as it has to fit in between floor joist

Answer 2

We were considering solar tubes but were told that they only work really well in places that have hardly any light - we saw one on a staircase that had no natural light at all and it was very effective. But we saw another in a dark bar room that already had a window and it didn't make a lot of difference - it added a little dim light but not sunlight. We ended up putting an extra window in one of the walls that is not north facing. If you get any sunlight at all mirrors will help but they don't make much difference otherwise. You can get special light reflecting paint - I think Dulux make it - But I don't know how effective it is. Every little helps though and it might be worth trying it out with white paint on the ceiling.

Answer 3

Perhaps you should describe the room for us!
Is it an internal reception area, with bedrooms off? I've seen those in Southern and Eastern Europe, and also Africa and Asia, where one of the doors leads from an external entrance. If this is the case, maybe you could replace the entrance door with a glass-panelled one, and of course, you can have a skylight or light-tube in the ceiling if it's only one storey. ( I should think two storeys would make it too far for a light-tube to bring enough light in to bother with, but maybe someone knows otherwise!) With an internal reception room, you can leave the bedroom doors open during the day to let light into the internal room - with a muslin curtain across for privacy, or just a bead screen. Tricks with mirrors have been mentioned. In some hotels, in big internal conference/ banqueting rooms, I've seen large glass panels in the ceiling, which appear to be skylights, but actually they just have fluorescent "sunlight" tubes above them - and they look for all the world like real skylights. One had a particularly effective slightly convex effect, which made the room look almost like an atrium, but it was just with fluorescent lights. Actually, come to think of it, its not difficult to get artificial light, but you still have to have real air!

Answer 4

There are tubular skylights which will bring light down through the roof in a big tube, about 1 or 2 feet in diameter. The inside of the tube is colored white. Alternatively, you can buy fluorescent light tubes which mimic the spectrum of sunlight.

Answer 5

You can get light into dark places, by installing light tubing, its realitively expensive, depends really if you have a roof space of not, or for the cheap version so for a sun ray lamp, helps beat the blues, I wonder what sort of room it is cant surely be a normal room as building regs don't like rooms with out windows as normally they are classed as store cupboards.

Answer 6

if you have a window you could put a couple of large mirrors on the wall opposite to reflect the sunlight around. if you don't have wndows, buy an energy efficient lightbulb (they last longer and are brighter) and put two or three mirrors in the room to refelct the light around.

Answer 7

Yup a big f*ck of mirror, In power cuts too place a small mirror behind but not too close to a candle and it doubles the light. Same idea the just angle the mirror then you can have natural light or you may as well just fit sot lights in there.

Answer 8

tublar skylight called a solor tube easier to install than a skylight big home centers have them

with the flexable duct you cam mount the inside and outside parts in different spots of the house

Answer 9

My roommate installed a skylight in our bathroom because it had no window, and it was creepy-dark in there. It was a fairly major D.I.Y. project, but you can do it if you have helpers.

Answer 10

You can install a suntube if you'v got access to the roof !!