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Offices with one hot facade
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An office that overheats on the south or west side is a shading problem before it is another air-conditioning cassette. External shade on the hot facade can cut the peak the cooling has to meet.
What is being claimed
The landlord's consent and the look from the street are the real gates.
The illustration beside the claim
The worked opening for Offices with one hot facade is 1.8 m wide by 2.35 m high, 4.23 square metres of glass. This figure puts 470 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.76, about 1511 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 90 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 151 watts and keeps about 1360 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For Offices with one hot facade, 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.
A night cover is not a consent
Winter figure for Offices with one hot facade: glass at 2.6 W/m2K, 4.23 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 1.06 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 30 percent of the flow leaves 0.74 kWh and saves about 0.32 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Paper before manufacture
Stop Offices with one hot facade if the only place for the box is a listed street front and nobody has written advice from the council. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
Norwich is only a setting for Offices with one hot facade. The streets there are not the product.
How to use the figure
The 1.8 by 2.35 metre opening inside Offices with one hot facade 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 solar motor, and the illustration is £2,959. 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 Offices with one hot facade, 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. Offices with one hot facade covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
Offices with one hot facade 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 Offices with one hot facade 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. £2,959 illustrates Offices with one hot facade for a 1.8 by 2.35 metre opening with a solar 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 4.23 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 Offices with one hot facade 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. Offices with one hot facade uses a solar motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £2,959.