Use Solar Curtains – They Really Are Practical
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We all know one thing – when summer comes, your bills for electricity and water are sure to go up. One way to have some control over consumption of electricity is not to use your air conditioner all too often, but that’s not a very comfortable idea. Instead, you should take measures to prevent cool air from escaping the room and hot air from entering it. It’s too well known that windows are responsible for loss of up to forty percent of heat contained in the room. Though use of curtains and blinds help restricting outgo of air, they are not very effective really. We need to have an arrangement that not only retains cool air within the room but also prevents the sun from entering there.
The ideal solution is to have solar curtains which keep the operational expenses of air conditioners low, and save energy even during winters when you start using heaters. Such curtains prove effective as they can reflect heat back. Their installation is very easy. You just need to hang them down using an additional curtain rod in between your normal curtain and window.
Save Energy and Money with Solar Curtains
During summer when it gets too hot, your AC keeps running continuously. Once you install solar curtains you’ll realize that your AC doesn’t run for so long. Because solar curtains prevent the sun from heating your room, the AC doesn’t have to work as hard. As winter sets in, you just turn the curtains around and their reflective characteristic helps keeping the room warmer without straining the heater as much.
But come on, do solar curtains work?
Certainly, they do work. We have such curtains on the front of our home, the side that gets the maximum of heat during the day. There is a considerable difference in the temperature of that room and even the AC doesn’t work for so long now. In the absence of these curtains our average electricity bill was about $300, but with the installation of these curtains the bills have come down to about $150-180. We certainly expect to see a drop in our electricity bills during the forthcoming summer. Solar curtains are not just trendy, these are effective also.
Another helpful feature is that as they block much of sunrays from getting into your room through the window, your furniture and fabrics don’t get faded so fast.
Like any other curtain, solar curtains too offer privacy. In this case you are able to see through them but people from outside can hardly see in. That’s because of metalized polyethylene, the material used for making such window treatments.
You can easily fix up such curtains. We fixed ours within the curtains on a spring curtain rod contained by the window. You can’t see them from the inside; the only thing you see is the curtains. From the outer side, you can hardly see in.
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