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Solar Tubes for Container Houses

Many people are converting Shipping Containers into Houses, for under $15,000. Jesse

via My Shipping Container House by todd on 7/22/09


Finished installing the solar tubes yesterday. Wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. They don't cover installing them in a flat roof with u-panels in the instructions. There is still a few more chances of rain this week for a leak test otherwise I'll go over everything with a garden hose before the insulation is installed.




As you can see this type of sky light allows in a lot of light. They are more efficient then "window" style sky lights since the surface area in contact with the outside is reduced. And hopefully this ends the questions about my lack of windows.



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1 comment:

Container Homes said...

Great post, very helpful. Thanks for the heads up on using these in Container Homes.

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