Tag: shade
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Furl the sails
It looks like it’s time to furl the sails for the cool weather. We only have a narrow back yard, just on 4 metres and it bakes in Summer. So I put up some posts and washing line cable and made 4 sails of shadecloth that we can rollout in Summer and back again in…
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Heatproofing your garden
I’ll be presenting an online workshop on getting your garden ready for Summer, this Thursday.
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Adapting to bushfire season
I was worried about the permanent shade cloth catching embers so I’m replacing a lot of it with market-style umbrellas.
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Shadehouse complete
Over the last week, interrupted by periods of bad health, and with Marlon’s erstwhile assistance, I’ve put up a shadehouse that covers most of the northern end of the house. This is the end that usually gets blasted all day by the summer sun, so shading it has been on our to-do list for a…
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Through the roof!
Google said it was 37°C at midday, and who are we to argue? After all the changes weve made to the house to compensate for the hot weather, I thought I’d check some key points with my trusty temperature gun (in the pic above). For the record, we had: 22 on the interior walls 24…
