Mr and Mrs Gill love their home. However, there was one problem. The L-shaped hall that runs through the centre of their home was very dark. Part of the problem was owing to the lack of windows, but it was also owing to the dark exposed brickwork that had been used in the main hall area and that absorbed much of the light coming in through the glazed front door. Even after fitting glass doors to some of the rooms that led on to the hall in order to "borrow" some of their natural daylight, and experimenting with various electrical products that professed to emulate daylight, the hall still didn't feel quite right.

The Gills briefly considered fitting traditional skylights in their hall, but knew this would be expensive and messy. However, a chance remark by a builder friend of theirs resulted in them considering a cheaper, simpler, cleaner and quicker-to-install alternative - Solatube Daylight Systems.

"The Solatubes have transformed the whole bungalow by flooding the halls with natural daylight. The installation process was very quick and easy too. The builder simply made three holes in the ceilings, fitted the domes on the roofs, assembled the parts and it was all done."

Mr Gill