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Originally Posted by Nana2Teddy
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.
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Mine is western facing and we put the motorized shade down after 2pm. The opposite of what you do. We did not enclose the lanai with glass like you have done.
Why didn't you just put up curtains or vertical blinds instead of the motorized shade? Motorized shades are not cheap and don't last forever.