Even if you have storm windows or the newer dual-pane thermal windows, the window covering you choose has a tremendous impact on energy consumption.

Custom manufactured solar shades dramatically increase the R-value of your windows and makes your home more comfortable in any climate, any time of year.

Air Filtration through most 30-inch x 60-inch double-hung windows is like having a 12 square inch hole in the window.

Air filtration can be experienced by feeling cold air move across floors. It can be seen by watching drapes and shades move, and it can be heard whistling through the windows.

If you've ever stood by a window on a sunny day or a cold night then you know that windows have a lot to do with how comfortable your home or office feels.

Heat moves from warmer to colder areas and will enter through a window on a warmer day but escape through a window on a cold night.

Heat travels via three different methods.

• The first way is Radiation
  Sunlight is radiation and most of it passes directly through glass, warming the objects on the other side.
  
• The second method is Conduction
  Conduction occurs when heat is transmitted through an object. Glass is a good conductor, and transmits heat from warm air that touches it.
  
• The third method is Convection
  Convection happens when heat is stirred by moving air.
  
  

Solar shades are an effective energy saver when properly installed and used. The shade forms an insulating layer of air between the shade and the window.

In summer solar shades should be lowered on sunlit windows to reduce solar heat gain.

In winter, shades, specifically on the south side of a building, should be raised during the day to increase solar heating, and then lowered at night to reduce heat loss.

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