Reducing the Heat of Your Conservatory

One of the first extensions that people consider making to their home is a conservatory - generally this is by far the cheapest and simplest extension that is well known to add value to your property. It is relatively easy to get planning permission and there are a lot of choices and styles available within your local area to choose from.

The sad fact is that most people do not use their conservatories. Why is this? Well very simply because of the high temperatures these glass rooms create. In the winter a conservatory is often the coldest room of the house - being mainly a summer room you would think that as the warmer weather increased, a conservatory owner would use their conservatories more and more. However as the weather warms the heat in your conservatory multiplies into almost unbearable levels very quickly.

Most people who have invested in this type of extension quickly realise that they need some protection from the heat and glare and the obvious solution is conservatory blinds.

Conservatory blinds come in many styles and colours though they keep away the glare and offer a degree of shade they do not do a great job of keeping the heat out. The heat is still created as the sun hits the glass.

A perfect solution to heat reduction is to use external conservatory blinds. Modern fabric technology has allowed for a special type of fabric that is designed to reflect up to 95% of the suns heat away before it hits the glass, still allowing light to pass through though taking away the glare.

These exterior conservatory blinds offer huge heat reductions in the conservatory bringing the temperatures down to standard room temperature - even on the hottest of summer days.

Being these conservatory blinds are mounted externally an electric motor powers the blind on opening and closing. This allows simple temperature control as, at the press of a button, you can open, partly open or close the blind allowing more or less sunlight to hit the glass.

When not in use the exterior conservatory blinds retract back into a small housing that is hardly noticeable. In it's cassette it can remain protected from adverse weather elements and kept looking as smart as it did on day one!

These conservatory blinds are often not cheap, certainly if you are looking at quality, though the benefits of a room you can use often outweighs the cost implications.

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Added: April 6, 2009
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