Solabrite

I visited SolaBrite's showroom at 5729 Sonoma Drive, Pleasanton, and was impressed with the amount of light captured by these, relatively small diameter "skylight tubes". I'd seen some cheaper versions of this concept, which used flexible tubing (rather than SolaTube's solid-wall light ducts) to connect the outside light-gathering unit to the inside light diffuser, but the amount of light available was considerably less. Within a couple of days of my initial enquiry, we were visited by Bill Creasi, who walked through the advantages and options of the SolaTube system, and gave us a quote. Since we are in a townhouse development, the next stage was to get approval from the home owners Architectural Committee to install the units. This took about 2.5 weeks. Once we'd got that, the installation was scheduled within a few days. Marty Miller and his assistant installed the tubes in about 6 hours. We did some "on-the-fly" changes to the installation (for example, we'd hoped to use two 14" tubes, one to get light from a flat roof down through the corner of a 2nd floor closet and deposit that light directly into a dark corner of the 1st floor, but the position of the floor joists was such that we decided to use a 10" instead). The installation team arrived when scheduled, were very interactive with us, did an excellent job of installing the units, and cleaned up very thoroughly. The result has been a dramatic increase in natural light in our home - for a price that was about a third of what we'd have paid for a regular rectangular skylight. SolaBrite did what they said they would, on time, and to the agreed budget. I'd certainly recommend this system, and this company to anyone - at least based upon our experience.

Once they did an audit of our house, it was decided that it wouldn?t be worth it for us to go through with it. They did an excellent job. They seemed very professional, very friendly and very knowledgeable. They got back to us with the information quickly. It is a good company.

Sola-Brite worked efficiently. My wife called the guy at nine in the morning and it was completed by eleven thirty.

The installation they did the first time was one very efficiently, quickly, professionally, and they were fair priced. I was very pleased with them, so I called them back last year to install another one. The owner that I called said will call me back with an estimate the next day and I have never heard from him. The company is excellent, but I do not know why he did not call back. The people they send for the job are also very thorough.

They were very efficient. They sent out a salesman who went over everything in the contract. They gave me a price and set up an appointment. They arrived on time and completed the job in one day. They cleaned up after themselves and did a very nice job.

A representative from the company came to our home to give us an estimate which we accepted. The work was done approximately twelve days later. The installer came promptly and worked quickly to complete the installation. He had to make a couple of modifications in order to place the Solatubes in the locations we wanted. He was friendly and accommodating. In retrospect, we probably could have used the 10" rather than the 14" but nevertheless we love the enhanced appearance with the natural light. Actually the lighting is phenomenal.