When I realized how high our daily bills were during the summer, I knew it was because of how difficult every one of us had to run the air conditioner unit.
The people I was with and I lived in what some people would consider a glasshouse. The people I was with and I have 3 walls that are solid glass; the front plus sides of our house, and for nearly the entire day, the sun is coming through those windows. I know I did not realize just how bad the sun was for our home. Not only was it causing a lot of solar heating in the house, but it was destroying our furniture. What used to be a deep gray color was now only dark gray on the unused side of the pillows. All the color was being drained from our furniture. The paint on our walls was not only fading, but it was cracking plus peeling. My wood floors were drying out. To keep our home from becoming unbearably warm, our air conditioner was running nearly nonstop. I knew I had to do something, or not only was our air conditioner going to be splitting from overuse, although I would have to redo our entire downstairs. Our Heating plus A/C contractor told us about solar powered window blinds. Once they were in place, when the sun got to a particular position on the windows, the blinds would automatically close. I had never thought of our house as being modern, but with solar powered blinds not only was the inside of our home protected from further damage, although I wasn’t using the air conditioner nearly as much as I had been.