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Originally Posted by microbet
Windows that keep the heat from the sunlight getting into your house have a LOW e-value and they reflect the infrared. They don't absorb some of the heat. Glass with a high e-value which would either absorb and re-emit heat or let it pass through would do the opposite of what you're talking about.
Windows are sold with varying e-values because sometimes you want heat and sometimes you don't. Undoubtedly if they are new windows in Dallas, they will have low e-values. But, I always said it depends on the house and we don't know anything about the house (as far as I've read) except that it has bedbugs.
Yeah I mis-spoke here. I meant windows allow light and absorb heat. Check the e-value, it's not what absorbs the heat but it will tell you how much heat the window absorbs then sends back into the room.
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Originally Posted by microbet
When it's 108 outside, I don't think it would be that difficult. Trying to do it in the winter would be hard. I'm sure the company works in the winter too. Also, as a general and electrical building contractor, I know it's routine for services such as these to cost a lot. It's not necessarily that it's a ripoff, but I bet at least 1/2 that $1600 is going towards sales and marketing.
If you're going to try to heat the house with candles, then yeah. But, not everyone is lame.
Perhaps I should have just said, "I would try to heat it myself, but I'm sure you pussies will call me ******ed."
As a Texas licensed architect, I don't disagree with you. But as a contractor you should appreciate that customers are sacrificing value for utility, right? When you say you would do this on your own, I wouldn't equate "you" with the typical person. The typical person is not a contractor.
Awesome that you played the "I'm a contractor card" and the "pussy" card, though. You win, bro. All I can bring myself to play is the local architect card.
But seriously do you realize it takes an incredible amount of energy to go from 108 for a couple minutes to 140 for several hours? Do you know what thermal lag is? Stuff loses heat at a very fast rate. If the difference in outside temperature is 35 degrees (140-105) the insulation in the house will not be able to retain all that heat because it will want to emit to the much cooler outside air. Which isn't different from what normally happens which is that the difference in indoor air temperature and outdoor is so drastic that it takes a lot of A/C to keep a house cool during summer. Dallas will lose about 30 degrees of heat by 3am just because the sun is shining on the other half of the Earth. The hottest part of the day is
after the sun is most direct, because it takes a while to re-heat the Earth up during each day. The hottest part of summer is like 6 weeks after the sun is at its most direct, because of the thermal lag in stored heat on that portion of the Earth. Same with winter. It's coldest about 6 weeks after the sun is at its weakest.
It is not easy to get a home in Dallas to 140 degrees for several hours. Whatever you keep saying is just basically "Hey I'm a contractor! I can do this! This is a fun challenge!" which is just silly.
When I come back from vacation my house is never more than like 85 degrees. When the outside temperature is 108 your house doesn't just get to 108. Not even close.