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Incorporate Natural Lighting With Skylights and Sun Tunnels

A green home is one that takes advantage of site opportunities, including passive solar design to reduce heating and cooling costs, but also natural lighting. A home lit by natural light can reduce utility bills but also feels warmer, brighter, and more spacious.

Deltec offers many products for designing for ample daylight, including a myriad of high performance window choices, as well as fixed or operable skylights and sun tunnels from Velux. Skylights open up a room to ambient natural light while sun tunnels provide a direct, fixture-like illumination, without the fixture.

Skylights can enhance the beauty of your Deltec Home with natural lighting, and cut down on electricity costs by substituting artificial light with sunlight.
 

Sun tunnels in closets or bathrooms are a great way to provide natural lighting in rooms without windows.

 

 

Why Is It Green?

  • Skylights from Velux meet ENERGY STAR guidelines
  • Sun tunnels can provide a lighting substitute in closets, hallways, bathrooms or other areas during daylight hours
  • Velux skylights come with a leak-proof guarantee

Green Tip

When installing skylights, make sure the skylight shafts are correctly insulated on the attic side, incorporating both insulation with R-value equal to that of the rest of the attic, and an air-barrier, such as rigid polystyrene foam insulation. Those skylight walls are just another interface between your home and attic, and should be insulated accordingly!

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We love our Deltec. It is a wonderful design and is VERY fuel efficient. It was green before green was cool. - Becky A., Greenville, SC

Due to the superior energy efficient design of the Deltec home, all the south facing glass and the active solar power equipment, the home is totally self sufficient.
 - John J., Telluride, CO

Our Deltec home has exceeded our expectations. It is comfortable inside and looks great outside. We are very happy with the energy efficiency and comfort of this design. - Marianne K., Harrisonburg, VA

Each time the gas company sends out a bill, they include a chart comparing our consumption with their average customer. Always, our consumption is just half of the average. - Ed B., Holcomb, NY

Our past electric bills ranged from $120 to 250. With our 4000 sq. ft. Deltec (around 3 times the size of our old house), our electric bill averages around $120, $130 per month. - Kim M., Magnolia, TX

We love our Deltec home. It is very energy efficient (we have not had a gas bill over $75 this year), spacious, easy to maintain, and incredibly "livable." - 
Daniel & Lynn W., Wildwood, PA

We have just gone through our first winter and I can't believe how tight this house is, and how it weathers the local winds which are occasionally pretty interesting. - Joseph R., Oakhurst, CA

Using regular windows, floor plan design & sub-tunnels we have such great natural lighting that we almost never need to turn on any lights in the house.
 - Beth H., Charleston, SC

Even on coldest days in Colorado, our house stays in the low 60s without using the furnace during the day. In the summer it never gets above 75 even if 15 degrees warmer outside. Love my house! - 
Suzanne M., Buena Vista, CO

Everyone else around us is crying about $500-$600 a month electrical bills and ours was $239.00 last month which is really low for Hawaii. - 
Keith B., Holualoa, HI

For our new home, we built to the basic Deltec standards…and our Deltec Home earned a HERS score of 34. Our home uses 66% less energy than code-built new homes. We’re very pleased with the energy efficiency. -Barbara P., Richford, VT- - Barbara P., Richford, VT