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An app is not a switch
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Phones get lost, updated and ignored. A shutter you use every dusk wants a switch by the door or a reliable timer in the motor.
Sun, in watts
The worked opening for An app is not a switch is 1.8 m wide by 2.1 m high, 3.78 square metres of glass. This figure puts 595 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.7, about 1574 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 85 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 236 watts and keeps about 1338 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For An app is not a switch, use the noon figure to compare two openings on the same house, then let a measured survey replace the figure.
An internal blind does not get that reduction, because the energy has already crossed the glass.
On this opening
Add the app if you like seeing the house close while you are on a train. Do not make the app the only way out.
The same glass in winter
Winter figure for An app is not a switch: glass at 1.4 W/m2K, 3.78 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.51 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 24 percent of the flow leaves 0.39 kWh and saves about 0.12 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
I would not order yet
Stop An app is not a switch if the door is an escape route and the motor has no way to open when it is dead. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
Glasgow is only a setting for An app is not a switch. The streets there are not the product.
How to use the figure
The 1.8 by 2.1 metre opening inside An app is not a switch is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a wired motor, and the illustration is £2,585. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For An app is not a switch, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. An app is not a switch covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
An app is not a switch should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for An app is not a switch only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £2,585 illustrates An app is not a switch for a 1.8 by 2.1 metre opening with a wired motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 3.78 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for An app is not a switch until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. An app is not a switch uses a wired motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £2,585.