The Solar Guys are Central Florida’s Solatube Premier Dealer, ranked the number one Solatube dealer in the nation, and a family owned and operated company that has helped make homes brighter, cooler, and more efficient across Daytona Beach and Volusia County since 2001. Because we live and work in Florida ourselves, we know a coastal home has to be able to handle heat, salt air, heavy humidity, and the wind that comes off the Atlantic every hurricane season.
After more than two decades of installations, we know the products that earn their place, chosen for how well they stand up to Florida sun, storms, and salt and for the results they deliver year after year. That reflects the mission we have kept since the beginning, which is to deliver genuine energy savings through the highest quality products available, backed by service that treats your home the way we would our own. Whatever your home needs, the estimate is always free.
A home near the coast takes more punishment than most. Salt in the air corrodes what it touches, the humidity rarely lets up, and every hurricane season sends wind and heavy rain straight off the Atlantic. Anything added to a Daytona home has to be built for that, which is why we install only products we have watched survive it. Each one below solves a specific problem a coastal home runs into, from interior rooms that never see daylight to an attic full of trapped heat and moisture.
Tubular skylights are the product that made our name, and they answer a problem that shows up all over the Volusia coast: rooms with no practical way to bring in daylight. A Solatube captures sunlight at the roof and carries it down a highly reflective tube into a kitchen, bath, or hallway that has no window and no exterior wall to add one.
Older beach cottages and block homes in Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, and along the peninsula often have small windows and closed off interior rooms, so they show the most obvious difference. In the newer communities around Port Orange and New Smyrna Beach, where deed restrictions limit what can change on a visible roofline, the low profile Solatube collector sits close to the roof and stays unobtrusive. On either, the unit is fully sealed and rated for coastal wind, and we flash and finish it with salt in mind, so it holds up where a standard glass skylight would corrode, leak, or work loose over time
On the coast, attic ventilation is about moisture as much as heat. Warm, salty, humid air that stalls in an attic can lead to condensation, mildew, and rot, and it holds heat against the underside of the roof through a long Daytona summer. A Solar Star attic fan runs entirely on its own solar panel, exhausting that hot, damp air throughout the day and drawing drier air in behind it, at no cost on your power bill. Clearing the attic that way protects the roof structure and its underlayment, takes a steady load off your air conditioning, and helps keep humidity from settling into the living space below. There is no wiring to add and no electrician to schedule, because the panel powers the fan on its own.
A closed garage is the hottest and most humid room in a coastal home, and it takes the brunt of the salt air that drifts in from the Atlantic. That combination is hard on everything from tools and beach gear to the batteries in a golf cart or mower, which corrode and wear faster in warm, damp, salty air. A garage fan keeps the air moving, venting the heat and humidity out and drawing fresh air through, so the space stays usable and the salt and moisture have less chance to settle on metal. It runs without new wiring and it keeps that heat from pushing into the rooms that share a wall with the garage.
Along the coast, an old skylight is often the first place a roof starts to fail. Years of intense sun and salt air leave the acrylic bubble units from decades past cracked, clouded, and leaking, right where wind driven rain can find its way in during a storm. When we replace one, we install a modern sealed unit rated for coastal wind, or convert the opening to a Solatube tubular skylight when the goal is more daylight and less heat than the old glass ever allowed. Either way you get a watertight, properly flashed penetration built for a beachside roof, not a weak point waiting for the next hurricane season.
Insulation does quiet, unglamorous work, and on the coast it manages moisture as well as heat. A radiant barrier turns back much of the sun’s radiant heat before it loads the attic, while blown in insulation fills the thin spots and gaps that let cooled air leak out and humid outside air work its way in. The result is a home that holds a steadier temperature, sheds less of the air you pay to condition, and asks less of an air conditioner already running against coastal humidity. Paired with a Solar Star fan, it is one of the most affordable ways to bring an older beach home up to modern efficiency.
Coastal storms and summer squalls can unload an extraordinary volume of water in a short time, and a home this close to the water needs it carried away fast before it undermines the foundation or floods a bed of landscaping. We form seamless gutters on site from a single continuous length cut to your roofline, so there are none of the joints where sectional gutters clog, pull apart, and drip. We can spec heavier gauge material and finishes that stand up to salt air, and we match them to the house so they protect it through the wet season without standing out.
A dryer vent packed with lint is one of the most overlooked hazards in a home, both a fire risk and a drain on efficiency, and in constant coastal humidity a clogged line struggles even harder to push damp air out. Clearing the full run restores that airflow, so the dryer runs cooler and faster, the clothes dry in one cycle, and the fire risk drops. Roof vent guards deal with a different nuisance near the water, sealing the gaps that birds, rodents, and wasps use to get into an attic while leaving the ventilation those vents provide completely open.
Coastal work leaves no room for shortcuts, so we send our own certified crews to every job rather than handing it to a subcontractor, and we install only genuine Solatube and Solar Star products rated to meet Florida Building Code wind requirements. Homeowners along the Volusia coast have held us to that standard for years, which is why we carry a 5.0 rating across more than a thousand Google reviews and stand behind every installation with a full workmanship warranty.
Point us to the rooms that never get light, the attic that traps heat and humidity, or the skylight you are tired of watching for leaks, and we will show you what a Solatube, a Solar Star fan, or the right insulation can do. Call 352.307.7077 or request your free estimate online. We serve Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Ormond Beach, Port Orange, South Daytona, Holly Hill, Ponce Inlet, New Smyrna Beach, Deltona, and the surrounding Volusia County communities.
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