Colonial (cross bar) windows with double glazing
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Comments (2)once our homes are allowed to heat up it's very difficult to cool them down because heat from warm air allowed in through open windows and doors is stored in the walls and floors and then released back inside the house as the outdoor temperature drops ..this heat sink effect is fabulous when you have a good sunny day in cold climates but challenging when we have extended periods of hot weather and especially challenging in your hot climates where homes need to be lightweight to minimise this passive heating effect and outlook and orientation need to be different than most advice available about these effects (which is usually aimed at retaining heat in cold climates). We have ceilings fans and cross ventilation in all major rooms, high windows with electric openers to increase the stack exhaust effect, maximum insulation in roofs and walls, double glazed windows, insulated internal window coverings and solid internal doors to restrict heat movement, wide eaves and/or verandahs and have substituted more lawns,trees and gardens for some paving but windows on the eastern side still allow sun to heat the house from early morning and windows on the west increase the effect till late evening and we now plan to install adjustable vertical screens on the outside of windows and verandahs to increase shading.. living in a cold climate we already have heating but we are now considering upgrading our heaing to include reverse cycle air conditioning but we're hoping the new screens will avoid the ac..good luck with your challenges...See MoreHow to use windows to create a Hamptons-style look.
Comments (5)Colonial panes looks awful on sliding windows. They look best on double hung. What I don't really get is why you'd want to build an American-styled home in a state known for it's vernacular architecture which is very similar in appeal? Hamptons/Qlder are almost the same thing but one will look authentic in QLD and the other not so much. This house is sitting in a hot state and yet it has almost no eaves, limited deep verandahs. That style is built for a temperate climate (the USA shares practically no climate similarities with Australia except in Florida). So the owners opted for the climatically different house and put it in the one state where the vernacular would actually function better. It would have been a simple thing to Hamptoms style a Qlder and benefit from both....See MorePoll: Window Colonial Bars Yes/No
Comments (3)Fake bars installed on modern windows = NO for me. Anything fake is a big no. Go real or go home. BTW, this isn't the USA, we don't need Hamptons here....See MoreInvesting in Double Glazed windows. Options for other heating &cooling
Comments (4)I'm with your hubby I'm afraid. Double glazing is mostly a way to deal with cold radiating into a house, and heat leaking out of the house via conduction which is not the problem in Perth. Sure it will prevent heat from radiating into the house via the windows but mostly that's not how houses heat up in Australia. What causes a house to heat up is sunlight warming up the ambient air inside the house via a greenhouse effect which double glazing will not prevent, or hot air being born into the house on the wind. So double glazing will only prevent this if you intend to shut the house up all day. In which cause it's just the lack of air movement not the insulative properties of double glazing doing that. Single glazing would also do that. In Australia what matters most is cross ventilation in order to create a restful environment. Evaporative cooling works effectively when you have good cross ventilation as it's the evaporation of the water vapour causing the cooling effect. Additionally you do not want to shut up a house with evaporative cooling as you'll get condensation and mould inside the house. So if you are 100% on double glazing it will only be effective with refrigerated air conditioning as it's relying on preventing air exchange between the inside and outside of the house to work and preventing conduction of ambient air temps. Double glazing is not popular here for a reason, it's the wrong solution for our climate. Cross ventilation and proper solar management is the correct solution for our climate. So I'm with your hubby I think it's wasted money that would be better spent on controlling the direct sunlight to the home and proper ventilation....See More
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