Transcript Window Treatment For Sliding Glass Door Guys

Window Treatments
Interior & Exterior Components
• Exterior:
• Awnings: weather resistant fabrics, metal: either material can
be used to make adjustable/roll up components: awnings can
reduce solar heat gain through fenestration by as much as 75%.
• Shutters: temper light, heat, and cold: secure windows against
physical damage: actual operable shutters are common in
many parts of the world, but artifical shutters are typical in the
US.
• Cutouts and Projecting Elements: overhanging roofs, trellises,
an exterior vertical element placed to shield the window/view
from the interior.
Overhangs: for sun and rain protection,
may be used at doors or windows
Grilles and Fences
Pre-fabricated metal grilles:
used for balustrades, fences, gates, room partitions
Exterior Window Treatments
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• Grilles and Fences: masonry, wood, plastic, or metal grilles and
fences: placed close to windows or some feet away: can control
privacy, sun, and wind to any degree desired.
• Louvers: ventilating panels of wood, metal, or plastic can be
effective as sunshades and for weather protection. normally
used over windows, they can substitute for glass completely in
warm climates
Exterior shutters that are hinged,
and actually open and close.
Motorized exterior rolling shutters
by
Innovative Openings, Inc.
Overhead rolling shutters
Sliding wood doors
Bodhinyanarama Buddhist Monastery
Wellington, New Zealand
Interior Window Treatments
• Hard Treatments:
• Shades:
• Roller shades pull up and down, and are mounted on
rollers. may be mounted at either the top, or the
bottom of the window. these reduce light and give
privacy in direct relationship to their thickness and
translucency or opaqueness.
• Roman shades: are attached to tapes that pleat the
fabric when drawn by using cords. Roman shades
pleat in definite horizontal lines as they are raised.
• they may unfold flat or in cascading loops.
Roller shades
Roller shade mechanism
• Bamboo or matchstick, and woven-wood shades:
• these function much like those made of fabric, either
rolling or folding as they are raised. they differ in that
they usually let more light through, and give a better
view of the outside.
• Pleated: shades made of a polyester web or mesh
material: they filter or block sunlight while remaining
visually unobtrusive.
• Honeycomb pleated shades are paired, two layers,
creating an insulating air pocket between the two
layers of fabric.
Bamboo ‘matchstick’ shades
• Thermal Shades: constructed of multiple layers of insulating
fabric, often surrounding a reflective Mylar sheet, are used to
control heat loss or gain. they can either roll, or pleat, but
require more space at the top of the window when opened
because of their high bulk.
• Thermal shades can reduce heat loss/gain by up to 80%.
• The drawbacks of shades include the fact that when pulled
down they cut out the light from the top of the window first.
shades can also block a breeze, or whip around in the wind.
Thermal shades:
left: thick, bulky
right: with outward facing reflective Mylar coating
Cellular shades
• Blinds:
• Horizontal: venetian, mini, micro: these are
horizontal oriented slats of wood, metal, or plastic.
venetian blinds are typically 2” slats: mini blinds are
typically 1” slats, and micro blinds are typically 1/2”
slats.
• All of these horizontally oriented blinds collect dust
and dirt, and are somewhat difficult to clean.
• Vertical : blinds of metal, wood, vinyl, or fabric.
vertical blinds collect much less dust and dirt than
horizontal blinds.
venetian blinds
mini blinds
• Grilles, Screens, Panels: used when
windows are unatractive, or when views are
not desired. screens may fold back, slide on
a track, or remain stationary. screens filled
with translucent material are called ‘shoji’ by
the Japanese.
• stained glass, beveled, or leaded glass,
wood, or vinyl lattice panels are all used as
materials to construct interior window panels.
• Shutters: fixed or moveable panels or wood slats or louvers
on a framework, hinged to the window frame. most louvers are
1” wide, but plantation shutters are a louver that is typically 2”
wide. shutters are generally more initially expensive than fabric
window treatments but across the life span of the sutter the
initial cost is more than repaid.
• Bare windows: when windows are well designed, and the
relationship to the outside is carefully considered, additional
window treatments may be unnecessary. even so, a bare
window becomes a black reflective surface at night, and it
permits an unobstructed view into the interior environment.
plantation shutters
typically made of wood
• Soft Window Treatments:
• in addition to flexibly controlling privacy, light, , and heat,
curtains and draperies soak up noise in proportion to the area
they cover, the thickness of the fabric, and the depth of the folds.
• Curtains: usually of lightweight, unlined fabric that filters and
diffuses light. curtains are used either alone, or under drapery,
hung next to the glass.
• Sheers: thin, often sheer or semisheer fabrics, hung closest to
the glass.
• Sash curtains: a type of curtain hung on the window sash. they
can be stretched taut between rods at the top and the bottom of
the window sashes, or hung in loose folds. they are often used
on doors that contain windows.
• Draw curtains: usually of translucent or lightweight opaque
fabrics, are mounted on traverse rods that provide a pulley
mechanism that allows the curtain to be drawn, or pulled, open
or closed.
• Casement curtains: open weave fabric usually more opaque
than a sheer. may be used alone or under drapery and may
also be mounted on traverse rods.
sash curtains
• Draperies: are any loosely hung (not stretched) fabric. (this
term really includes all curtains) generally, draperies are
thought of as heavy, opaque fabrics that can be drawn or that
stand idly at the sides of windows purely for decoration.
draperies should be lined if not used with sheers.
• Cornices: rigid horizontal bands several inches dep placed at
the window top to conceal curtain tops and the rods from which
they hang. constructed of wood, they are somwhat architectural
in feeling and relate window treatment to walls and ceiling.
upholstered cornices are padded and covered with fabric.
• Valences: made of fabric draped across or covering
a rod or shaped form at the tops of the windows.
they are more closely allied with the drapery than
with the wall, and are decorative in nature. valences
are open at the top.
• Portieres: these are currtains or draperies hung in
open doorways or arches between interior spaces,
often tied back or let down for privacy or insulation.
valences
Measuring and Estimating
• Rough estimate of fabric needed:
• measure the width of the window, including any wall space to be
covered. multiply this figure by 2, or by 3, to provide adequate
fullness (the lighter weight the fabric, the fuller it should be)
• divide the width of the fabric that is to be used and round the
answer to the next larger whole number. (common widths for
drapery fabric are 45 and 50 inches”
• the result is the number of panels of fabric needed.
• Next: measure the height of the window in inches, including the
wall space above, and below that will be covered. add 16 to 18
inches to allow for generous hems (a double 4” heading at the
top, and a double 4” hem at the bottom).
• the yardage required for the window is the product of the
number of panels needed multiplied by the total length needed.
• divide by 36 to convert inches to yards.