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Posted by WB on July 6, 2006, 9:19 am
I'm making some screen porch curtains which will stay up all year, thru
a Wisconsin winter. The old ones got whipped to schreds. Short of taking
them down in the winter and accepting the bare look, would like any
suggestions on how to leave them up and protect them a little and keep
them from blowing around in a blizzard.
I'm thinking of installing a thin muslin or outdoor fabric on the
outside of the screens for winter; like my grandpa did years ago, using
tack strips. Or maybe placing some small grommets on the hems of the
curtains themselves and string them together with elastic to keep them
from billowing out and whipping. I'll put some brass chain in the hems
to weight them a little for the gentler summer breezes. I'm doing 12
windows, surrounding the entire porch.
Any ideas are appreciated. TIA JPBill
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Posted by Veloise on July 6, 2006, 11:40 am
JPBill wrote:
> I'm making some screen porch curtains which will stay up all year, thru
> a Wisconsin winter. The old ones got whipped to schreds. Short of taking
> them down in the winter and accepting the bare look, would like any
> suggestions on how to leave them up and protect them a little and keep
> them from blowing around in a blizzard.
>
> I'm thinking of installing a thin muslin or outdoor fabric on the
> outside of the screens for winter; like my grandpa did years ago, using
> tack strips. Or maybe placing some small grommets on the hems of the
> curtains themselves and string them together with elastic to keep them
> from billowing out and whipping. I'll put some brass chain in the hems
> to weight them a little for the gentler summer breezes. I'm doing 12
> windows, surrounding the entire porch.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated. TIA
I would figure out how to roll them up and secure with straps (velcro,
snaps, buttons). No sense making them go through winter, plus it might
look neater to have them stowed out of the way.
HTH
--Karen D.
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Posted by small change on July 6, 2006, 11:56 am
>> I'm making some screen porch curtains which will stay up all year, thru
>> a Wisconsin winter. The old ones got whipped to schreds. Short of taking
>> them down in the winter and accepting the bare look, would like any
>> suggestions on how to leave them up and protect them a little and keep
>> them from blowing around in a blizzard.
>>
>> I'm thinking of installing a thin muslin or outdoor fabric on the
>> outside of the screens for winter; like my grandpa did years ago, using
>> tack strips. Or maybe placing some small grommets on the hems of the
>> curtains themselves and string them together with elastic to keep them
>> from billowing out and whipping. I'll put some brass chain in the hems
>> to weight them a little for the gentler summer breezes. I'm doing 12
>> windows, surrounding the entire porch.
>>
>> Any ideas are appreciated. TIA
>
How about covers, (similar to what they wrap sails in) made out of
sunbrella?
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Posted by Pogonip on July 6, 2006, 2:27 pm
WB wrote:
> I'm making some screen porch curtains which will stay up all year, thru
> a Wisconsin winter. The old ones got whipped to schreds. Short of taking
> them down in the winter and accepting the bare look, would like any
> suggestions on how to leave them up and protect them a little and keep
> them from blowing around in a blizzard.
>
> I'm thinking of installing a thin muslin or outdoor fabric on the
> outside of the screens for winter; like my grandpa did years ago, using
> tack strips. Or maybe placing some small grommets on the hems of the
> curtains themselves and string them together with elastic to keep them
> from billowing out and whipping. I'll put some brass chain in the hems
> to weight them a little for the gentler summer breezes. I'm doing 12
> windows, surrounding the entire porch.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated. TIA JPBill
I have a screened porch - actually, has windows so it's not quite the
same as yours. In the winter, I close the windows. But....some years
ago I made "shades" for the windows from double-faced quilting fabric -
the kind with a print on each side, batting in the middle. I went for
very simple, and put a casing top and bottom, put 2 pair of cup hooks on
the tops of the windows and put a dowel through each casing. So I can
unroll the shade to cover the window - keeping out hot sun or cold air,
and I can roll the shade up on the bottom dowel and pop the dowel into
the second pair of cup hooks. (I bound the edges with bias tape.)
I hope you can follow this description.
The sun has faded the printed fabric, but the shades are still intact,
and still in use for the same purpose.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.alternate-universe
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by cea on July 6, 2006, 4:07 pm
WB wrote:
> I'm making some screen porch curtains which will stay up all year, thru
> a Wisconsin winter. The old ones got whipped to schreds. Short of taking
> them down in the winter and accepting the bare look, would like any
> suggestions on how to leave them up and protect them a little and keep
> them from blowing around in a blizzard.
>
> I'm thinking of installing a thin muslin or outdoor fabric on the
> outside of the screens for winter; like my grandpa did years ago, using
> tack strips. Or maybe placing some small grommets on the hems of the
> curtains themselves and string them together with elastic to keep them
> from billowing out and whipping. I'll put some brass chain in the hems
> to weight them a little for the gentler summer breezes. I'm doing 12
> windows, surrounding the entire porch.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated. TIA JPBill
---
Short of using sunbrella-type fabrics, as 'small change' suggested, I
can't think of any other fabric which will weather as well. At the very
least, before you invest so much time, you might check out the
sun-proof fabrics, most of which, I believe, have some sort of
longevity warranty.
Maybe you need to consider more than one option to this problem,
though.
When we built the screened porch on my Dad's summer place, he
mounted wooden shutters on the outside of the screens, and, closed them
with hasp locks.Dad hinged the shutters. then mounted them above the
windows, so that they accordioned up and formed a bit of overhang which
kept rain out. It was a bit of a bother, as none of us females could
heft them up when we arrived, so there always had to be some brawn
around.
I then made long curtains from sheets which I found at an outlet
store. The lightweight curtains worked in the summer because no direct
sun hit the curtains, otherwise, they'd have been sun-rotted in a
couple of seasons.
Me, I'd rather have an easy-care option for a summer place, such as
vinyl roll-up shades or vinyl Roman shades. This summer, I bought a
couple of bamboo shades to hang outside my sewing room window, hoping
to thus reduce the solar heat gain. I could hardly stand to sit at my
machines after 2 pm, it would get so hot.
The shades have proved quiite effective, and have made the room
comfortable. Long story short, though, we've had so much rain that the
bamboo is mildewing, where they roll at the bottom, so a bleach rinse
is on order. PITA. I did like them because I could still see through
the little 'slats', and didn't feel so utterly closed-in.
Cea
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