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Read more about Brise Soleil - how I learned to stop worrying and love the metal

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Brise Soleil - how I learned to stop worrying and love the metal

One aspect of the Passive House PHPP I paid close attention to was overheating risks. As a result we looked at shading and extended the downstairs porch to shade the downstairs bedroom window. The upstairs we though about using Brise Soleil and have 3 canopies over the 3 main windows. I've been working on this for about 8 months with more than half on design and structural engineering and manufacture taking place in June. Then I spent most of July / August trying to get them to fit before bring

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• mike2016 in shading
• September 11, 20242 yr