The water is always warmer at the shallow end of a swimming pool. Sunburn is more likely at the beach or the pool than in your own backyard. The sun’s reflection on water intensifies heat and UV ray exposure because it acts like a mirror bouncing the sun’s rays. Have you noticed that your swimming pool is warmer at the end of the day than it was in the morning?
Just as there are literally hundreds of styles in patios, there are also hundreds of ways to build a patio cover. Fixed, retractable, slatted, permanent, fabric, steel, wood and so forth. A contemporary styled home calls for a contemporary patio cover.
When you live in a place like New Mexico that gets 300 days of sun in a year and strong gusty winds in the spring as well as monsoon weather in summer, patio screens are essential protection.
Every year our desert home in New Mexico is pummeled by the wind. From sometime in March through May and even into June, the warmer winds of Spring blow in from the west across miles of open desert from California, across Arizona and New Mexico picking up speed as they go with nothing in the vast terrain of the southwest to stop them.
Sun protection in the form of window screening is one of the most effective ways to keep energy costs down.
Variations on the classic dome awning can be found through-out the world, and often at locations housing fine hospitality establishments.
If you live in a moderate climate, but don’t generally use and maintain a swimming pool in winter months, there are options. Protecting your pool from temperature changes is the first step.
Pergolas are open shade structures with a roof which is often made with fabric panels that can be opened and closed as needed.
Awnings for windows, doorways and patios can be fabricated in a huge variety of sun protection solutions. Heavy fabric fitted on a fixed frame, or a retractable scissor awning frame is the most traditional design. However, solar screening that deflects up to 95% of harmful UV rays, and allows light and air to pass through, and is fabricated of a mesh material is also a very effective solution.