Personally, I hate the look of the 1 pixel border around windows. Seer doesn't have the 1 pixel border so it looks more attractive to me, but it really comes down to personal preference. Quicklook has a 1 pixel border that matches the theme you have Windows 10 set to. Some people prefer having a border because it helps indicate which window on the screen is active.
However, it's important to note that these rules of thumb are no more than a rough guide. If the room includes a lot of glazing -- especially unshaded east-facing or west-facing glazing -- you'll need more cooling capacity than you would for a room with smaller windows.
Purpose of windows
Windows, complicated and expensive holes in exterior walls, are installed to afford light, view and ventilation to the room's occupants. They are not intended to be support and frame noisy, ugly, wet, air leaking metal boxes to cool rooms.
Those 10-12 days a year...
Yeah, up north, our old house only needs AC for 10-12 days a year, so we do live with the ugly, wet, noisy boxes in windows (well one lives in a hole previously punched through the back wall).
Great, timely article
Interesting coincidence that you put up this post as I am getting proposals for mini splits to replace the window AC units and single ancient floor furnace in my house. I am hanging on in my 700 SF (historic) shack that I am no allowed to remove to build my new house. I did spray foam the floor and roofline a while back so the house is relatively tight, although I can't do much to the walls as they have wood siding with no sheathing. I don't think the city would approve removal and replacement of the windows and siding, so I'm hanging tight for now.
The floor furnace does an adequate, although inefficient job of heating the house. The rare cold spell tends to make the house pretty uncomfortable. I have three ENERGY STAR window units that give me terrific control over the temperature, I only use them when I need them (78 degrees as I write this with the windows open in Georgia). It's extremely rare for me have any AC on other than my bedroom at night. I get a perverse pleasure of listening to my neighbor's heat pump run (winter and summer) whenever my windows are open.
Swamp Coolers are dinosaurs
There are far better low cost cooling solutions for the high Southwest deserts than swamp coolers. Historically they have been roof mounted with a single dump and no ductwork. That means a big whole in your roof, which for climate zones 4 & 5 means huge energy losses during the longer heating season. The typical solution was to slide in a "cookie sheet" to ineffectively mitigate the heat loss. When ducted system are installed the ducts needed are significantly larger than those for AC units. Also they use a ton of water; not good in drought-stricken areas. They also are ineffective if the windows are not left open a crack, which most home-owners are relectant to do when they leave their homes empty durng the work day. Coming home at 5:30 to a closed up sweltering home and then cracking the windows and turning on the swamp cooler means making dinner in a hot house while the cool moist air starts moving around.
The better solution in the Southwest is to build a tight house and install HRVs or ERV that run 24/7 (not a fraction) on low speeds. This is the same principal espoused by your grandfather who opened up the windows at night and shut them during the day. Even when we see daytime temperatures near 100 we typically get nightime temperatures in the 60s or lower. HRVs and ERVs
as developed in Canada were primarily designed to save heat but they work equally well to conserve cool and allow for pretty even temperature modulations. I know they work because we put them in 25 affordable homes in Santa Fe back in 2007- 2008. No AC, tight homes, healthy air exchanges and cool temperatures with closed windows. Elegant solution
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Windows can be a source of energy loss in a home, especially if they are single-paned and you have a lot of them. Single-pane windows are less energy-efficient than double-pane, triple-pane or low-emissivity film-coated windows. Energy-efficient windows can reduce the tonnage requirement for an AC unit.
These unique and naturally tumbled Ema Eggs, also known as window stone, dreamer's crystal and seer stones, come from the Ema River in Brazil. These crystals are half polished on one side and rough on the other so you are able to see a window to inside of the stone. You may choose from Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Clear Quartz, or Smoky Quartz. These would make a wonderful addition to any crystal collection, or use for each stone's metaphysical energy healing properties.
Anyway, here I am 7+ months after quitting Lexapro cold turkey. I have been in the windows/waves pattern for the past 4 months with noticeable improvements. I was actually debating on posting a success story last week because I had been feeling so great, but unfortunately a wave hit - although minor in comparison to the beginning. This has consisted of insomnia, intrusive thoughts, minor DP/DR, light sensitivity and generally feeling out of it.
I would like to start out by saying I have had days of feeling 100% normal, symptom free. I have also had weeks of minimum symptoms (long windows). I am feeling confident I will make a full recovery.
I can offer you some reassurance in that I experienced all of the symptoms you mentioned. For me, 3 months off was when I got hit really hard and it has gradually improved since then (windows, waves). The good news is that these symptoms will eventually lessen in intensity, until they disappear entirely. There are, without a doubt, better days ahead.
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