“Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about” 🪟
“Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about” 🪟
This video by Technology Connections talks about how window awnings can greatly help cool your home.
Another thing I want to add is that window awnings can protect windows. We get pretty big hail here, and (wood or aluminum) awnings can save your window glass. I have also heard of “Clamshell Awnings” which are on hinges, so you can remove the poles and lower the awning to cover and protect windows in extreme weather.
Lastly, here are some old window awning ads for your entertainment (from Wikimedia commons)
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I’m really convinced that the whole world decided one day that air conditioning was magic and gave up on everything else.
Awnings are orders of magnitude more expensive than blinds, and blinds are expensive enough. There isn't an off the shelf design that will work for every house so you need to be able to customize them. Awnings tend to look shabby in 5 years and need regular maintenance to keep from being overrun by spiders.
I'm a marine fabricator and make awnings.
no earthly clue what you're on about, retractable awnings are perfectly common here in sweden, and most office buildings even have them automated.
They're perfectly affordable and you kinda just screw them into the wall..
is that to have someone install it for you as well, or just the awning itself? I've been thinking about welding up some aluminum slat awnings because the materials should be affordable for making it myself, but I have yet to research if any particular calculations are needed for the sunlight angle or anything else. Based on other home alterations I assume getting someone else to do it would be expensive.
If you weren't being stolen from en masse then we could easily afford another job structure for all the windows in our own houses. Not to mention maintenance, replacement, etc. AC popularity is literally theft. Back in the early 50's there were AC's that just worked forever. Now they all break and require a resale of new parts and whole units in years. I know this because I have an original piece that still works.
Haha agreed! I often have “why did we stop doing this” thoughts.
I think you’ll also find Transom windows interesting, as well as Qanats paired with wind towers. 🙂
Maybe in the US. Other places not so much.