In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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"I have one question: since the vinyl will inevitably get dirty, just like a window would, can you wash it?"
I started looking into painting my lower windows with acrylic (artists) paint a while ago. And I found out that not only do they have thinners which would allow me to modify the opacity, but they also have mildly to wildly opalescent pigments. So for instance, one might be able to create the appearance of milk glass 
or opalescent glass
or iridescent glass (not my style, but it gives you and idea)
or paint any pattern of stripes, etc you might want.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Sounds like great work on the vinyl, SIX! I'll bet it makes a HUGE difference in the way your house looks!
You can't even imagine. Your mileage probably won't be as much as mine since I'm sure you clean your windows more than once every 8 years.
But it looks so neat and clean, and once I repair the holes from the old brackets and get to re-painting walls and such, I already know how much better it will look since I know what it looks like upstairs. So much sunlight in my house now. It's crazy.
I feel like I have some major things that need to be done and I'm messing around doing arts and crafts BS, but this is important. I can't say that it's going to fix my mood everyday, but having 10 times the sunlight or more than I used to have in the house can't hurt.
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I have one question: since the vinyl will inevitably get dirty, just like a window would, can you wash it?
Yanno... I thought about that yesterday. I had been measuring it and cutting it on the concrete floor in the basement and making a huge mess because of residual sawdust that was still there from the baseboard/trim after I swept it all up. I had to rub both sides on my sweatpants, shake them off and wipe my hands and do it a few times before I could even think of putting those up on my clean windows. (I was smart today and saved a ton of time and got a lot more work done by sweeping and washing my work area first).
But it did make me think about the cleaning question... I mean, it's vinyl. So yes? But I'm not going to be able to let it go now that it's up there. I'm sure if I let a few years of dust and crap get on them that it would be a nightmare to clean. If I got a duster and just hit them every few weeks I probably wouldn't really need to wash them.
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And one comment: Drapes and blinds have a purpose besides privacy, and that is to block light. It may not be an issue for you, but for us it definitely helps to keep the heat out. That's why I have thermally insulative sun-blocking curtains on our bedroom and livingroom windows which get sun. Personally, I like "plantation shutters" which are made with wide slats of wood, but they would be prohibitively expen$ive since they would need to be custom-made. So I would go with both privacy vinyl AND curtains. The vinyl for when I want the curtains open.
I thought about that yesterday. It is notably hotter in the basement than it ever has been the last two days. My problem is that I have full sun exposure the first half of the day on the back of my house where two of the windows are. Granted, I didn't have them covered until mid-day today, so I'll have to monitor that tomorrow. The ones I used for the basement "diffuse" the light and don't do the luminescent effect that the upstairs windows do, so they might block out the heat better.
It's the same story with the 2nd floor windows which are right above the basement in the tri-level house. Also, where I covered the top and bottom panes in the basement, I only put the film on the bottom pane of the 2nd floor windows. But the A/C is up there and it doesn't seem to be a problem.
I won't have to worry about that on the 1st floor because the 2nd half of the day the sunlight is blocked by all the trees out front (assuming, of course, that I don't have them torn down at some point... but then I'd still have the tall trees across the street blocking a lot of it).
But really, around here I only have to think about that 3 months out of the year, max. If I ever felt it got unbearable I could just tape up a few black trash bags over the basement windows for a few months.
But I probably won't do that. The A/C is amazing. I've play a few games with a big metal fan I've got and have it pointing down stairs at times and around sundown I point it up into the attic which seems to drop the temp up there 15 degr
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Well, the sun will not hold where I am. It will be a wet Canada day but then with everything cancelled it won't matter too much.
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Same here, Brenda. Rain until Friday by me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah, it is absolutely pouring by the looks of it right here and right now Jack. Soggy end to June and it looks like a soggy beginning to July.
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Hey I think the garage is finished as far as the big stuff. The shelving and countertop/ workbench are up, the lights have been changed out for LEDs, we added two outlets and circuit breakers and did new conduit for that and the demand water heater, so that is done.
And my tomato and peppers are finally developing fruit, I see four baby watermelons the cucumber is ready to pick
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Nice work.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Great going on the garden SIG.
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Quote:hey that looks pretty!!!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"I have one question: since the vinyl will inevitably get dirty, just like a window would, can you wash it?"
I started looking into painting my lower windows with acrylic (artists) paint a while ago. And I found out that not only do they have thinners which would allow me to modify the opacity, but they also have mildly to wildly opalescent pigments. So for instance, one might be able to create the appearance of milk glass
or opalescent glass
or iridescent glass (not my style, but it gives you and idea)
or paint any pattern of stripes, etc you might want.
I could do some really fancy stuff with that!!
But is it washable?
What I really want, for two windows anyway, is something really sparkly like grist patterns, or "misty" looking, like looking into a fog.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:I know it's not YOUR project, Signy, but it seems like a good project, done well, and finally completed!
Originally posted by SignyM:
Hey I think the garage is finished as far as the big stuff. The shelving and countertop/ workbench are up, the lights have been changed out for LEDs, we added two outlets and circuit breakers and did new conduit for that and the demand water heater, so that is done.
And my tomato and peppers are finally developing fruit, I see four baby watermelons the cucumber is ready to pick
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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