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Originally Posted by talonip
We have had two houses and enclosed both. Single pane. Don’t get sucked into double pain unless you have a west facing lanai with unobstructed view. We put insulation in the first house with 280 sq ft lanai. In second home we did not with 500 sq ft. Hardly noticed a difference. We put two mini splits in second lanai. We love it. One thing that is nice the villages weather and temp from late Oct to middle of April is great. Mini splits use was minimal. We use our lanai all the time. It’s well worth the cost to enclose and pit mini splits in. Ask contractor to put in the flush ceiling mounted mini.
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This is our situation. We chose single pane for east facing 400sf lanai because it was $15K vs $29K, and Custom Windows told us single pane was sufficient. We had ceiling insulated and two ceiling mounted minisplits installed by Kalos, and they work great except in the dead of summer when the morning sun heats up the room quickly forcing the minisplits to work extra hard all day trying to cool it back down to 75. So, we have 100% solar blocking interior motorized shades being installed next week to block morning sun until 11-12, then will raise them for rest of the day and night. The shades will block the sun from fading everything in our lanai too. This is a private fenced-in yard, no view, so we don’t mind shades being down in morning for 2-3 months annually. We do keep our sliders to the lanai open all day.