[Greenbuilding] basement daylighting

[RT]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 13:39:29 -0400, Brian Milani <bmilani at web.ca> wrote:

> basement exercise/meditation roomone of the windows opens to the crawl  
> space of the front porch.
>
>  big grate  ... tempered glass ... plexiglass... light tube

Brian;

A big grate would be really nice for dropping keys,   
hard-to-source-but-critical-nonetheless small parts, heirloom jewelry etc  
into the nether regions of the crawlspace. $#!+ happens.

Tempered glass or plexiglass on a front porch that people inevitably with  
wet footwear will traverse is an accident waiting to happen.

A variation on the light tube idea seems to be one of the better options  
but instead of a store-bought affair with the domed top maybe you borrow  
the old idea of placing mirrors around a candle during power outages to  
"amplify" available light.

Maybe you can find some of those old grid-textured glass block at one of  
the local salvage yards and use them to cast a 3-row panel of glass block  
floor deck along the full length of the porch floor adjacent to the wall  
of the house (ie where foot traffic would be non-existent) and place an  
array of salvaged tempered mirror panel shower doors under the porch floor  
to collect/amplify/reflect light to the window well(s), the basement  
window being glazed with a translucent material so as to eliminate glare.



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