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9fingers wrote:
We don't heat upstairs at all apart from the bathroom. bedroom doors are left open and the living room door is opened an hour or so before bedtime so the accumulated heat downstairs flows up stairs.
We try to manage the summer solar load of southfacing windows by drawing the curtains and resisting the temptation to throw open windows during the day and let the DG insulate us a bit.
Bob
Andyp wrote:I aint no expert either but with 12 years of living with a south facing aspect, with windows also facing east and west, that gets the sun from dawn to late afternoon the undeniably best way of keeping the heat out are external shutters.
Andyp wrote:I have not tried internal shutters here but have seen them in use. Old fashioned wooden ones that fold into the reveal.
Internal shutters do not stop the glazing from heating up, the shutters themselves can even get warm. External shutters prevent the glazing from heating up.
Yes all our windows open inwards. PITA for furniture placement but excellent for cleaning and decorating. All on lift off hinges too.
RogerS wrote:.... I'd hate to have to get the ladder out twice each day to shut the external ones
Woodbloke wrote:9fingers wrote:
We don't heat upstairs at all apart from the bathroom. bedroom doors are left open and the living room door is opened an hour or so before bedtime so the accumulated heat downstairs flows up stairs.
We try to manage the summer solar load of southfacing windows by drawing the curtains and resisting the temptation to throw open windows during the day and let the DG insulate us a bit.
Bob
We do the same; no heat on upstairs regardless of the season and it's only the bathroom towel rad that's on. I also open the upstairs windows so that any heat that does build up in the summer might hopefully disappear.
Our south facing lounge used to get seriously hot so we fitted a thermal roller blind to the window which lets in a fair degree of light but no heat, so the lounge stays relatively cool and the curtains stay open. The kitchen/diner has a ceramic tiled floor which is very cool in the summer, but it can get a bit 'parky' in the winter; again there's a thermal blind fitted which can be rolled down during hot weather to cut off the rays - Rob
SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:....
....Jeez...you south coast wombles do not know you are living...parky enough here tonight for heating to be on already. I was down in Somerset and Cornwall for the the last two weeks and it was like being in a different country...sub Saharan Africa maybe...just didn’t have the exotic wildlife (even in Glastonbury village!)...
Shivering Sam
9fingers wrote:....
OK it cools the outides air by a micro-degree or 3 but I don't think the neighbours notice.
Bob
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