Thermal Shutters and Shades: Over 100 Schemes for Reducing Heat Loss Through Windows

by William A. Shurcliff

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093179014X
• ISBN13: 9780931790140
• Release Date: August 1980
• Publisher: Brick House Publishing Co
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

All Shurcliff's books are keepers!

I have owned and used this book in my architecture practice since the book's publication in 1980. I will continue to own and use it until I am gone (no retirement here). Shurcliff is a physicist with a gift for communicating to all of us, with necessary useful precision, the physics behind every kind of thermal insulation and shade concept, accompanied by sketch-illustrated constructed and imagined schemes. His other books (which I also have owned since their publication), about the physics and application of passive solar technology to buildings, are also, for the same reasons, extremely valuable and irreplaceable. Shurcliff's books are very empowering as they explain the real keys to understanding and designing with thermal insulation, shading and passive solar. Any serious solar architect or builder should buy, read and use these keepers!

The bible of designs for home thermal shutters.

Are you trying to reduce your consumption of fossil fuels? It won't be long before your calculations of home heat loss will lead you to your windows. Shurcliff's book is a unique and thoroughly readable text for constructing a wide variety of thermal shutters and shades to reduce heat loss through windows. I have made shutters according to his design for all thirty windows in my New England house, raising their R-value from R-2 to R-13. They were simple to make, are simple to use and save me a hundred fifty gallons of oil a year. My house became dramatically more comfortable as well.