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East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit
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East glass dumps the sun into the room before anyone wants it, then goes quiet. A shutter or a roof-window blind on a timer can be down at dawn and up by breakfast.
When the curtain has to be down
A west-facing sales story about 4pm is the wrong clock.
A size you can argue with
The worked opening for East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit is 4.2 m wide by 1.2 m high, 5.04 square metres of glass. This figure puts 520 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.7, about 1835 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 85 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 275 watts and keeps about 1560 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit, use the noon figure to compare two openings on the same house, then let a measured survey replace the figure.
An internal blind does not get that reduction, because the energy has already crossed the glass.
The night cover
Winter figure for East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit: glass at 1.4 W/m2K, 5.04 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.68 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 24 percent of the flow leaves 0.51 kWh and saves about 0.16 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
A bad reason to proceed
Stop East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit if the frame cannot take a guide and the wall beside it is crumbling. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
Swansea is only a setting for East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit. The streets there are not the product.
How to use the figure
The 4.2 by 1.2 metre opening inside East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a wired motor, and the illustration is £3,951. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £3,951 illustrates East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit for a 4.2 by 1.2 metre opening with a wired motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 5.04 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. East-facing bedrooms and the morning hit uses a wired motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £3,951.