(ferns) hot-houses etc and keeping excessive heat out

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• Subject: [ferns] (ferns) hot-houses etc and keeping excessive heat out
• From: &* S* <b*@caverock.net.nz>
• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:08:22 +1200

Hello all

I am somewhat surprised that there has been little mention of common 
measures that are used to reduce the heating effect of direct sunlight on 
glass-houses.

One is to erect a barrier of synthetic shadecloth on / over the exterior of the 
hot-house.  This method results in a significant reduction of incident energy.

The second is to paint the very old and inexpensive paint named "whitewash" 
in the interior of the glasshouse.

I just did a Google search for this and found a variety of recipes. - as follows:

Brian

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4095/resources/recipes.htm

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/sources/sources.html

http://www.bagelhole.org/article.php/Housing/25/

http://www.sare.org/sanet-mg/archives/html-home/31-html/0003.html

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