Re: [GBlist] Windows & UV Damage

[Kirsten Flynn <kir@declan.com>]

Title: Re: [GBlist] Windows & UV Damage

on 3/29/02 6:46 AM, McMurtrie, Thomas at TMcMurtrie@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us wrote:

I have a limited number of leads.  It appears that Window Quilt is still making a shade (http://www.1windowquilts.com/).  I recently talked with Zomeworks, and they have stopped marketing their Beadwall for lack of demand.  I've received a number of "home-made" suggestions on window insulation, including:

• Insulated garage doors that hide in the basement
• Sliding metal frame closet doors w/ insulating backing
• Outside insulating shutters that flip open during the day to absorb heat & radiate it back into the building at night.
  

If anyone has any additional information, ideas, leads on window insulating systems, I would appreciate hearing.  20 years ago I remember a multi-layer mylar shade system for large window expanses, but I have not been able to find any information on it.    

I have seen at my local New York Fabrics,(just a store name, I am in California)  Window insulating batting designed to used sewing into window covers.  It consisted of a white layer of fabric, batting, a layer of mylar, and then white fabric again.  I do not know how well it would work, and whether the mylar would cause condensation and thus mold in the fabric, but just though I would tell everyone that this might be an option.

Kirsten