Solar Window Screen

The grouping of windows here on the right side all give light to the living room.  The living room of this home is a 2 story living room, whereby all these windows feed in to that living room.  In the afternoon, the living room was blazing hot, and the living room got a ton of unnecessary light form the sun.  Now form this solar window screen installation, the light is cut down dramatically form the sun, as the windows are shielded by the solar window screens, and the living room stays considerably cooler.  Because this side of the home gets more than 4 hours of direct afternoon sun, we used the 90% solar window screen fabric.

The above picture illustrates a rare solar window screen installation method for us.  The horizontal sliding window here required two separate screens, one for the left and one for the right side of the window.  99% of all horizontal sliding windows will take just one solar window screen to fit over the entire window, but this particular window would not allow for  such an installation as the window had so much mortar (stucco) over and around (on top of) the window's frame that we had no where to screw a screen to.   What we could do was use two solar windows screens which is what we did.  The solar window screen on the left side of the window fit just like the old bug screens, we made it to fit into the provided track which was there from the window manufacturer for the original insect (bug) window screen.  The left side of the window is the opening side of the window.  This solar window screen we built with pull tabs on the inside and leaf springs to hold by pressure the screen in place.  The solar window screen on the right, for the non-opening side of the window, we screwed to the windows frame. 

For a clear understanding of how we install our solar screens, please visit our solar window screen installations page on our website.