Slider doors - screen on inside or outside?
debo_2006
17 years ago
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Comments (16)tstrombotn: "All my blooms come after the orchids are indoors, under the lights. I grow primarily phals and catts, with a few dends and oncids." Are your plants blooming "on schedule"? Could it be that their natural blooming cycle doesn't include summer? Yeah, Richard, the orchid enforcer held a gun to your head and said, forget about selling these extra plants at the next OS meeting, either you build a greenhouse, or I pull the trigger! Brad - I envy you being able to put your 'chids in trees. The squirrels around here would think it was Christmas. Gailjeannette - if your plants have been blooming where they are, then you've got a choice. Outside, they're vulnerable to all kinds of beasties that love orchid plants and flowers. If you've got squirrels.... Then there are the birds and slugs and aphids and on and on. You can minimize the plants' vulnerability to all these, though. The fresh air and real light can't be beat. My set-up is below, in case you haven't seen it. The patio gets unobstructed E/SE light but not from overhead because of the deck above. The lattice cuts the light 50%. Shelves and lattice are from Home Depot. You probably can't see the chicken wire that covers spaces that squirrels could get in. Caveat - none of my orchids requires the highest light - no vandas, for example, so I don't know how this would work for your Southern exposure. You've got a good problem to solve. :) Whitecat8...See Morewindows and treatments--prefer inside or outside mounts
Comments (13)For me it depends on the trim. If you have no trim or it's blah, go ahead and hide it with outside mount. (But IMO it should be fully covered - half-covered it looks to me like someone just slapped up off-the-shelf blinds that were the closest available measurement. But that's me.) If you have great trim, inside mount to show it off baybee! :-) As for whether to go 6-over-6 or 6-over-1, that depends on the style of the house - IMO some houses have 6-over-6 windows that should NEVER EVER have been allowed to be installed, they're just so wrong for the style of the house, and plain 1-over-1s would have served the house so much better. (Why do so many houses these days look like they've been mugged by half-soused window and siding salesmen? So strange!) If 6-over-whatever is truly appropriate to the style of the house, I personally prefer 6-over-1. It's less busy, it's a nicer view out the lower sash, and it's certainly easier to clean. Yes, you can get windows with the muntins between the panes, but IMO that looks downright weird and you can't change the color of the muntins without replacing the entire glass unit. I have a couple of doors like that and look forward to getting rid of them. Snap-out muntins can break easily IME and can warp off the surface off the glass so they look very obviously stuck-on. My last house had them - we took them all off and threw them away....See MoreHELP - Sliding Patio Door with blinds inside glass
Comments (7)Hello Chipmonk. My final decision was to forgo the blind option altogether. We didn't need them for privacy, just for sun and heat protection. I thought I'd end up selecting a window treatment covering to minimize the sun and heat after the installation, but I haven't needed one. With my builders assistance, we chose Harvey Building Products door and window for our kitchen and decided upon the Tribute line...double pane sliding patio door (they don't put interior blinds in their doors), and double pane sliding window over the sink (so effortless to slide). We noticed a difference immediately with the double glazed, low E argon, easy sun clean glass. The amount of sun and heat that gets through is mimimal compared to our original glass. We have been through the heat of the summer and surprisingly we never missed having blinds. This glass has been wonderful for blocking out a considerable amount of noise, the suns rays, and heat...far exceding my expectations. Upon closing the slider the heat is sealed off and you can visibly see the reduction of the suns rays. We coundn't be more pleased with our selection. I enjoy having the wide open windows for unobstructed light and view. Wishing you well with your project and good luck with your final selections....See MoreShoji-look (or barn door maybe)slider window for interior wall opening
Comments (16)Hope the photos help you envision what I'm talking about. We literally just purchased this 2nd home, townhouse (photo is from day 2 after purchase). It's a middle unit, so light is limited. In the room shown above, the wall opposite the cut out has a large slider door to a very private patio. The kitchen is completely interior and for natural light only has those 2 pass-through windows which both have nice views through another room to the outside. When we gut the kitchen, I'd like to keep the size of this pass through/cut out and enlarge the one on the other side of the kitchen. There maybe I'd also cut a door opening into the dining room on that side. But, back to my original question. When we re-do the kitchen (soon) we'd remove the bar counter where the stuff is sitting now. Then, I'd like to put my shoji screen across the opening. I'd prefer to just have a shoji-type window the size of the cut out. But, I can maybe see that a full length door might work with it acting as a frame to the sides of the pass through when the window is completely opened up. This is a fairly contemporary design as far as the architecture of the unit itself, and I plan to furnish it with a contemporary feel with Japanese and Scandinavian influences. We also intend to put in a frosted glass door (type and size TBD) where the opening to the hall (top photo) at the left of the cutout is. With these changes we hope to be able to use this room very occasionally for overflow during large family gatherings for a guest bedroom. Our primary goal for the room though is to have some sort of separation for when one person wants to have at least some semi-sound seclusion from the rest of the main floor which is very open. We though we could accomplish this by adding the door and a sliding shoji window. Maybe we're wrong. We know there will still be noise, but it is better than having everything completely open. Thanks for your ideas....See Moremyoneandonly
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