Here are the results.
First, the EZ Snap solar blinds did install nicely on the outside of the French Doors, even with the frame for the glass insert protruding beyond the surface of the doors.
Second, knowing from past experience that this product greatly reduced the direct sun light and it’s UV rays entering through the glass I removed the interior vertical blinds we had been using against the inside of the French Doors. What a difference! Just look at how much more open an appearance is created for the kitchen.
Also look at how much more of the forest in the back yard can be seen. Here is a picture from the main hall way first with the vertical interior blinds immediately followed by the same view point after the vertical interior blinds have been removed.
You know the best part of this? Cath, my wife, came home about an hour or so and didn’t even notice that I had installed the EZ Snap exterior window shades on the French Door. Seriously. All she thought was that I had removed the interior vertical blinds in preparation to paint the door frame. That speaks volumes to me on how clearly one can see outdoors from inside with the product installed.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Radkins // Jun 29, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Any other colors
available…
2 Dan // Jun 29, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hi Radkins,
You would have to contact the manufacturer, EZ Snap, directly as I do not know the answer. I don’t think so, but the manufacturer would know more than I.
Sorry,
Dan
3 Coyal // Aug 6, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Do you have problems
with the edges of
the solar fabric
trying to curl after
it was placed on the
window?
Coyal
4 Dan // Aug 6, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Hi Coyal,
The manufacturer’s web site that it does not become ‘freyed’.
I have to say that our’s did not ‘frey’ when the material was cut. I used a straight edge knife (the type that is used to cut dry wall boards) but one can use a pair of strong scissors as well I am told.
So far, no issues with the edges of the material once they have been cut.
Thanks for stopping by our site.
Dan
5 karen // Jan 3, 2009 at 10:29 pm
What about washing the outside of your windows? How time-consuming is it to pry them off and then re-install?
6 Dan // Jan 3, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Hi Karen,
Thanks for visiting our home web site.
First, we found that the product we used from EZ Snap (I can’t attest to other manufacturers) kept the windows cleaner than without anything on the outside of the windows.
Second, it will depend on the size of the window, naturally; a 3 ft X 3 ft window is much smaller than our 5 ft X 7 foot window in the main part of our bay window area.
Third, we didn’t find that it took much time to remove the solar screen from the snaps, and then reapply once the window was cleaned.
Faster, actually, than what I had thought.
Dan
7 John // May 5, 2009 at 8:40 am
Hello, I made my own solar shades last summer. I wish I knew about EZ Snap. I live in Virginia and Solar Shades reduced my electric bill last summer by about 15%. I had one room that was hard to cool, now you don’t hardly need ac at all, just in the afternoon on the hottest days.
8 Dan // May 5, 2009 at 10:46 am
Hi John,
Conserving energy while saving money at the same time, what a great combination.
You should be commended on being able to create something on your own. I know I don’t have the talent for something like that.
You should still enter the contest in case you can win an EZ Snap gift certificate which you can use for other east, south or west facing windows of your home or to keep as a back up to the one you made yourself.
Dan
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