I know you didn't get to be in there the whole time, but do you feel like your new home made the darkest days of winter a little more manageable? I saw you post on Facebook the other day. I had already started to notice that the days were getting longer again.
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The new house definitely has made winter more bearable. There's so much more light here. Our condo only had two west-facing windows and those windows had UV coating on them so essentially we got zero Vit-D/UV from the sun during the winter. Once I notice the a little more daylight each day I feel so much better. I can feel the intensity of the sun getting stronger also.
That is good. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad in the summer. We have our deck on the west side of our house and on summer evenings it is almost too hot to sit out there. I really wish I would have had the money to have them build a canopy when they built the deck. I screwed up on that one!
I hope not either! Most of our windows face North and East so we should escape most of the peak sunshine in spring/summer.
Have you considered one of these?
https://www.sunsetter.com/
We’re thinking about having one installed over the deck.
Oh yeah, you are going to be perfect! Our bedroom is on the East side of the house, so we can't escape the morning no matter how hard we try sometimes! I have looked at those, but I am not sure there is enough of a header above our sliding door to actually install it.
I hope so! The utility bill history doesn't look too crazy in the summer for the property. I think we'll end up doing a retractable awning or a pergola.
That is cool. We used to have a pergola on our deck before the tree branch fell and crushed it. I'm not sure it made a difference inside the house, but it definitely made it a bit cooler on the deck.