Heating & cooling TT with large picture window.
For those of you who have a trailer with a large picture window in the rear, are they harder to keep cool in the summer, and harder to keep warm in the winter?
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Atlee wrote:
To broaden my question to "colliehauler", do any of you wish you had gotten a trailer will fewer and smaller windows? Or are the many and larger windows worth the "price of admission"?
In our case, we wanted the extra windows. And yes, we did pay a little more for the upgrade in brand. They also all open. To save costs, manufactures use smaller and fewer windows and some do not open. I don't think the cost of the actual window is as bad as the labor to cut the hole, put the sealing tape on and screw the window in.
A lot of light in the bedroom.... This one is for sure a personal choice, I myself like to wake up with natural light. The DW... she wants this thing like a cave... Our fix, she made light blocking curtains. So we can have a cave at night... and sunshine in the morning "after" we get up.:)
To the comment on issues with double pane, thanks I'll check that out. I was more leaning towards storm windows. There are pro's and con's. The pro's to storms, you can have single hung windows, picture window and crank outs which really help on rain days to let air in, you can still get fresh air in with a screen. On double pane I have only seen them that tilt out on the bottom with limited amount of air coming in and in some case no screen. There may be more opening options on double pane, just I have not seen them. And naturally the down side on storms, you have to take them down and put them up. In our case, this is like the shrink wrap we use. But we only do it once a year so it is not that bad.
Hope this helps
John
