[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Smart house designs

[Lawrence Lile]

Where are you buying your magnetic strips?  

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From: Robert Waldrop [mailto:bwaldrop at cox.net]
Sent: Mon 7/23/2007 12:36 PM
To: Lawrence Lile; greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [BULK] Re: [Greenbuilding] Smart house designs


For most of our windows, we settled on rigid board insulation (the kind with the aluminum foil on one side).  We will cut it to fit our windows, and layered four boards, binding them at the edges with aluminum foil tape.  Then we have a canvas slip cover over them with straps to make it easy to pick them up and put them into the window wells.  We have not found it tedious to put them up at night and take them down in the AM (with the prototypes). For windows that get little or no natural light in the winter, we just leave them in all day.  For the windows on our sun porch, which don't have wells deep enough to accomodate 3" thick panels, we are going to do the magnetic strips. 
 
Bob Waldrop, OKC

	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: Lawrence Lile <mailto:LLile at projsolco.com>  
	To: Robert Waldrop <mailto:bwaldrop at cox.net>  ; greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org 
	Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:29 AM
	Subject: RE: [BULK] Re: [Greenbuilding] Smart house designs

	Robert sez:
	We have been experimenting with
	indoor shutters.
	 
	One of my projects before Winter is to build some indoor shutters or moveable insulation panels of some kind.  What kind of design did you settle on?  I am afraid that I'll come up with something that is impractical, since it needs to be put up and taken down every day, then find I don't use it because it is a hassle to use.  
	 
	I've considered using magnetic strips on the walls and on the backs of foam panels, this has the advantage of being easy to put up and making a tight seal.  I had considered tight-fit panels that go inside the window, but rejected that idea because we have sheetrock returns around the windows, which would be fragile with everyday use.  I also figure that tight-fit panels would get looser over time and start leaking.  
	 
	The panels will be covered with cloth for visual effect.  I am not real happy about the fire safety aspect of exposed foam inside the house.  
	 
	I'd like to come up with panels that are a minimum of R4, and easy to put up and take down.  
	 
	I don't know about window quilts, I take it they are very expensive compared to a DIY removable panel.  
	 
	--Lawrence