West wall vertical shade cloth

Pete_000 · Jan 14, 2021 8:08 am

Anyone tried vertical shade cloth on a western wall? (no windows) Have an elevated steel framed steel clad house facing north with skillion roof and good insulation but still very warm at the western end. Thinking 70% shade cloth (to minimise wind flap) suspended from the eve maybe 100mm from the wall. Thoughts?

Stewie D · Jan 14, 2021 10:48 am

Any type of shading on that wall will help. What about your neighbours? Would they object looking at a big screen like that? There are other types of material based solar screens available too but they are a fair bit more expensive but with their frames they look a lot better.

Stewie

Pete_000 · Jan 14, 2021 11:49 am

The cloth comes in an identical colour to my cladding and it would be smaller than the area of the wall and only 100mm off the wall. I priced aluminium louvres which were astronomical.

Stewie D · Jan 14, 2021 6:06 pm

There are also roll down blinds that you could attach to the underside of your eaves, but I guess the shade cloth would probably work out to be the cheapest and probably nearly as effective.

Stewie