I have a 16′ by 16′ deck with a roof attached to the house. The three open sides have 4 x 4 posts in the corners plus the centers, so each open span is about 8′. The height from the deck to the bottom of the joists is 8’4″. It was originally built to be a screen room, but I decided to make it a three season room.
My thought was to build a 3′ kneewall and buy custom storm windows 5′ high by (just under) 8′ wide. The only local manufacturer of custom storms is Harvey Industries. They make a double exterior slider which is two panes, one fixed and one movable, so I’d only get the windows half open. They also make a triple exterior slider, with a center fixed pane and two side movable, but I believe they move on a single track, so only one can be opened, giving me only one third open windows. To make it worse, it seems like I’ve been hearing about a lot of quality issues with Harvey windows lately.
Could someone possibly offer a window suggestion that would permit maximum open screen area that can easily be closed up during inclement weather?
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Casements. Both halves open. So long as no one can bang their head on them walking outside when they are open.
The floor is about 30" off the ground and open on two sides. The third side has another outdoor deck (with no roof) one step down and the fourth side is the house. Is there a casement style storm window or must I buy actual casement windows? Can you recommend brands for this purpose?
I'm sorry I didn't read your original post more carefully. I was thinking you wanted complete window units, not add-ons. Certainly you can get casements as entire new window units, but I don't know of casement storms. I don't know how something as light as a storm would hinge.
My question would be how you plan to affix a 5'x8' "storm" window in place. That's a pretty large assembly of glass, even for a "real" window. How did you plan on keeping them from deflecting and shattering under wind load?
Bob
Well, can't say that I had considered it. My assumption was that a properly secured unit would be able to support itself. Or I could use smaller, mated windows. I'm just surprised there aren't more choices out there.
I recently priced out storms windows for screened porches on the home I'm just building. Found that the storm window prices for single pane aluminum storms were not much less than double pane vinyl low-e Milguards.
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