Everyone should get awnings instead of bruteforcing the heat away. The insulation in your walls works both ways: it doesn’t let heat out in the winter and inside in the summer. However, the sun’s radiation passes through windows without much holding it back (without awnings or external curtains) and directly heats your home from the inside. So your house is basically a greenhouse when there’s nothing covering your windows.
We do have the latest version of low-E Windows. They’re shockingly effective.
I really want to get motorized blinds, and motorized forced air vents, as it sits now, we more or less just leave all the windows covered. Given it’s not as effective from the inside, But even reducing the direct IR mission makes a big difference.
Everyone should get awnings instead of bruteforcing the heat away. The insulation in your walls works both ways: it doesn’t let heat out in the winter and inside in the summer. However, the sun’s radiation passes through windows without much holding it back (without awnings or external curtains) and directly heats your home from the inside. So your house is basically a greenhouse when there’s nothing covering your windows.
Happy cake day.
My HOA would not approve of awnings.
We do have the latest version of low-E Windows. They’re shockingly effective.
I really want to get motorized blinds, and motorized forced air vents, as it sits now, we more or less just leave all the windows covered. Given it’s not as effective from the inside, But even reducing the direct IR mission makes a big difference.