The Solar Guys are Central Florida’s Solatube Premier Dealer, and Ocala our home. Ranked the number one Solatube dealer in the nation, we have run this family owned and operated company from right here in Marion County since 2001, bringing daylight, ventilation, and insulation to homes all over Ocala, Belleview, Dunnellon, and the surrounding area. Being local means we know firsthand what a home here contends with, from the heavy inland heat that settles over North Central Florida every summer, to the wind and heavy rain that arrives with hurricane season.
Over two decades in this business has taught us which products last in Florida and which do not, so the ones we install today are the ones we have watched prove themselves in the high heat, dense humidity, and tropical storms year after year. It comes back to the same commitment we started with, which is to give homeowners genuine energy savings through the best products on the market and service we would be glad to stand behind in our own neighborhood. Every estimate is free.
Inland Florida runs hot for a long stretch of the year, and the sun here is relentless from spring well into fall. Add the humidity and the storms that pass through every summer, and a home in Marion County has to work hard to stay comfortable and efficient. The products we install are the ones we have watched hold up to those conditions, and each one below takes on a specific weak point, from a room that never gets daylight to an attic that holds heat all afternoon.
A Solatube tubular skylight pulls natural sunlight from the roof down into a highly reflective tube and delivers it into almost any room in your home. Turn a dark kitchen, bath, or hallway into a naturally lit space with no rewiring or remodeling.
Many of the large active adult communities, like On Top of the World and Stone Creek, hold to architectural standards that rule out a bulky roof addition, making our low profile collector discreet enough to fit within them. Older and rural homes around Belleview, Silver Springs, and Dunnellon, meanwhile, were often built with few windows and deep interior rooms that don’t have a good source of daylight. On either, the system installs sealed and clean on the shingle and metal roofs common across the county, without the leaks or added heat that come with a traditional skylight.
Nothing drives up a summer electric bill in Ocala quite like a superheated attic. With the sun overhead through the middle of the day, the space above your ceiling can climb far hotter than the air outside and pass that heat straight down into the rooms below. A Solar Star attic fan works immediately, running on its own solar panel to exhaust the hottest air all day while cooler air is drawn up through the soffit vents. It costs nothing to run, eases the strain on an air conditioner that works most of the year here, and helps the roof last longer by keeping attic temperatures down.
In the Ocala heat, an unventilated garage becomes the hottest room in the house, often well over a hundred degrees by afternoon. That makes it miserable to work in and hard on anything stored there, from paint and household chemicals to the batteries in a golf cart, mower, or power tools, all of which degrade faster in extreme heat. A garage fan moves the air continuously, drawing the trapped heat out and letting cooler air in, so the space stays usable and its contents last longer.
Plenty of Ocala homes still have the domed acrylic skylights that were standard decades ago, and the intense Florida sun is not kind to them. Over the years they yellow, grow brittle, crack, and eventually leak. Replacement is the only way to solve the problem for good. A modern sealed skylight keeps the water out and blocks much of the heat the old dome let through, and if you would rather have more usable daylight, we can convert the opening to a tubular skylight that brings in far more light with far less heat. Either way, you end up with a clean, properly flashed opening built to hold up to Florida weather.
When the goal is a lower power bill, insulation does more of the work than almost anything else, because the biggest heat load on an Ocala home comes straight down through the roof. A radiant barrier reflects a large share of that intense heat before it ever reaches the attic, and blown in insulation fills the gaps and thin spots that let your cooled air escape. Together they hold rooms at a steadier temperature and let the air conditioner rest more often through the long summer. Add a Solar Star fan to move the attic air as well, and an older home starts performing much closer to a new one.
Ocala summers bring heavy afternoon thunderstorms that can drop an inch of rain in no time, and all that water has to go somewhere that isn’t against your foundation. Seamless gutters manage water flow better than sectional ones because we fabricate them on site as one continuous piece cut to your roofline, leaving none of the joints where ordinary gutters clog and start to leak. We match the color and profile to the house, so they carry the water clear of the foundation and landscaping through the rainy season and still look like part of the home.
A dryer vent clogged with lint is one of the quiet hazards in any home, both a fire risk and a drag on efficiency, since a blocked line forces the dryer to run longer and hotter than it should. Clearing the entire run gets the airflow back, so loads dry faster, the machine lasts longer, and the risk of a fire is reduced. Roof vent guards take care of a smaller headache that is common in Ocala, closing off the openings that squirrels, birds, and wasps use to get into an attic while leaving the vents free to do their job.
Every job is done by our own certified crews, never subcontracted, and we install only genuine Solatube and Solar Star products rated to meet Florida Building Code wind requirements. Two decades of Ocala and Marion County homeowners have held us to that, and it shows in a 5.0 rating across more than 1,285 Google reviews and a full workmanship warranty on everything we do.
Show us the room that never gets light or the attic that drives your summer bill up, and we will tell you exactly what a Solatube, a Solar Star fan, or better insulation will do for it. Call 352.307.7077 or request your free estimate online. We serve Ocala, Belleview, Silver Springs, Dunnellon, On Top of the World, Stone Creek, Marion Oaks, and the rest of Marion County.
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