| Topic: | Re:Re::Re: How to best use sash windows | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 14/06/26 11:42:00 |
| We find it more important to just keep the direct sun out first thing in the morning to keep us cool. The windows are hardly ever opened a lot but we are lucky to be able to choose which side. The biggest change has been the Council's contractors cutting down a street tree outside. They arrived in the morning to tap it off and marked it for tree works but then just kept on cutting. I was working and could hear it and suddenly realised this pruning had gone on a long time. When challenged on how much they were pruning the answer was "all of it" so that was that. It was being immediately chipped so there was no evidence of why it had to be so drastic. It was my seasonal calendar with the changing greenery and the birds and bees who visited visible when lying in bed. It was also a wonderful living screen. It was actually closer to our neighbours and its loss affected them even more as the sun now blazed through and heated the glass of their front windows and door so much more and they had to suddenly had to take action and stay out and order blinds to avoid so much heat. We all greatly miss that tree. I know it was there and we had been enjoying it for nearly forty years and it looked healthy but its ending was so fast and completely final that it was brutal and was probably not necessary. We still mourn it. Now I religiously keep an eye on any replacements in case they need water but they are so weedy and twiglike that they really are just no comparison. They certainly don't tick as many boxes as the tree they will take so many years to replace! |