[Greenbuilding] Solar shades

[Clarke Olsen]

It's not the bamboo which will fail, it's the string holding the strips 
which will
break down.
I saw a 1923 picture of a NYC brownstone showing louvered shades above
the windows. Just imagine a classic late 19th cent. awning made up of
6 or 8 horizontal louvers, it shaded the window without blocking too 
much
light or catching too much wind.
Clarke Olsen
Spencertown, NY

On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Lawrence Lile wrote:

> I've got a couple of West windows, and I had planned to put some 
> external solar shades on them about the time simmer comes along.  
> ........
> The computer model says that the three windows on the West are like 
> 25% of my air conditioning load.  Sheesh.  West windows are terrible 
> energy hogs, they contribute little solar gain in the winter when you 
> need it, and plenty of solar gain in the summer when you don't.  Ah, 
> but sometimes, you just need to see out to the West.  .......
> The helpful shade lady who seemed to have been selling shades for 
> quite a while claimed that the bamboo rollup shades.....would fall 
> apart in a year if used outdoors.