My neighbors, who can well afford to have whatever they want for
shade/sun control, have awnings on a couple of their west facing
windows.  Also, the stores in beautiful downtown Bellows Falls,
Vermont have them, the old fashioned kind that requires someone to go
out with a long pole thingy and turn the crank to let them out and
roll them up.   That's all I know about them but they seem to work.
Ruth



At 10:21 AM -0400 5/10/00, Ralph Walter wrote:
>Anybody got anything nominally objective about the relative merits of
>interior window shades (especially modren, glare filtering plastic woven
>ones) versus real, no-shit honest-to-God awnings?
>
>My local Nat'l Register Arboretum, on the board of which I roost, wants to
>reduce glare in our newly-restored 1889 sunporch, which had awnings in the
>Olden Days.
>
>My esteemed colleagues on the Board, who tend to be suburban soccer mom
>gardeners/Martha Stewart types and the retired Telephone Company Bean
>Counters  want the cheesy shades, even after I made the supremely foolish
>pitch for awnings on the grounds that they're historic and will reduce
>heating loads/cooling costs.
>
>Help me beat off the forces of Evil. Your assistance will be appreciated.
>
>Ralph

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