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Why Are Wooden Blinds Great For Energy Efficiency?
Besides their fantastic looks, here’s a great reason to have wood blinds: windows account for almost 50% of the heat gain or loss. So your air conditioning or heating system will having to work 50% harder to maintain the temperature you’ve set in your thermostat. That’s a lot of energy loss and you can just watch those dollars straight out of your pocket. That’s more heat loss/gain than adding up the total absorption/dissipation from roof, walls, and attic combined together! Windows without window blinds let in about 20 times more heat. So it’s to your advantage to control how the heat enters or leaves your home, to really save on heating or air conditioning costs, depending on the season.
And if you have metal or plastic mini-blinds, consider ditching them for wood blinds. Wood being the natural insulator that it is – is your friend when it comes to energy efficiency. Those thin metal slats just aren’t that energy efficient, though better than nothing. It just may be worth it to invest in sets of wood blinds for your home. I don’t care if you have slat blinds or vertical blinds, just get some wood blinds! While expensive at first, in the long run they can save you money on heating bills in the winter, and air conditioning costs in the summer.
Go green!
You might want to try different styles and size of slats depending on whether it’s a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom or living room in order to get more bang for you buck.
An interesting note: there is now a type of certification called “Greenguard”. Most retailers will carry some form of Greenguard blinds, which have been certified to reduce impact on indoor air quality and have been tested for chemicals to improve quality of life.
To recap here are the benefits of using wood blinds for energy efficiency purposes:
- Lower energy consumption means lower bills
- Home temperature will remain more consistent and comfortable
- Greatly reduced fading of furniture and decorations
So winterize, summerize…weatherize your home with wood blinds and you’ll be set. Check out on how to choose blinds for your home - to help in saving energy with wooden blinds.
Welcome To The Wood Blinds Guidebook
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Welcome to our site! We hope this site will help to inform you in choosing, purchasing, maintaining and decorating with wood blinds. It’s important to make the right choices when choosing blinds, so we’ve tried to give you only the best and most applicable information.
In this guide we have information from selecting wood blinds, to how to the right manufacturer. We’ll also talk about repairing and cleaning your wood blinds, and energy efficiency. There are many topics to cover and we hope you will enjoy the information here – and more importantly that it will be useful to you and your family in choosing blinds for your home. It’s important to create an warm, loving atmosphere in your home for family, friends and guests of any type, and wood blinds are the perfect way to do it.
If you have any questions please email me on the contact page provided. My email address is there and I will answer any questions that I can to help you. There is a wealth of knowledge about blinds out there, so I’m glad you’re stopping here to check us out!
We’ll cover topics ranging from how to choose blinds that are right for you, cleaning and maintenance, do-it-yourself repair, reviews of different manufacturers, and more. We put this information together so home decorators like yourself would be informed on all the great benefits wood blinds can bring to your home atmosphere.
Here’s a list of some of the major blind manufacturers to get you started:
Hunter Douglas, Graber, Kirsch, Louverdrape, Levolor, Bali, Kensington, M & B, Alta, Verosol, Arquati, Duette, Delmar, Comfortex, Joanna…of course there are many more!
It’s ok to be confused by the large variety of blinds to choose from when shopping for blinds, that’s why this window blinds guidebook was created. There are many resources out on the Internet for choosing blinds, so it’s really good you’ve landed here to start your search because you never can tell where you’re journey will take you. I’m sure you will find the perfect blinds for you, because those of us who love wood blinds have exquisite taste – whether choosing Venetian blinds, vertical blinds, or your favorite type of wood – we can’t go wrong with wood!
Feel free to post comments and start discussions on any information you find or would like to add. We look forward to hearing from you soon, and let your journey to finding the right blinds for your home begin!
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