Moving to Aargh 14 - HOT! More shade - curtains

Still hot. 

In the afternoon the sun heats up our back terrace, and you definitely cannot sit there. And it heats up the living, even though we have roller blinds there. Those are semi-transparent though, and don't block the heat. 

We were thinking about various types of commercial sunscreens, rolling out cloth from a cassette, etc. But, in the cellar there is a pile of "old" curtains the previous previous owners had, and the previous owners did not use.  Complete with poles. Actually they are quite nice. Red, and with a backing loth too. 

So:

grmbll

Fixed that

Tadaah!

Moving to Aargh 11 - HOT!

These days are HOT, 35-37º! And if you have a house with nice big glass sliding doors and big windows, and the sun is on them you will know that it is hot. The old house had thick walls, small wooden windows and shutters, here we have big glas and aluminium doors and windows, and they are not really the non-thermal bridge type. The temperature of the aluminium on the inside is 45º!

This requires blocking the sun. We plan to move the trusses and shade sails here, but we have not, yet. So we resorted to more impromptu measures. Cardboard and geotextile. We have one big umbrella, but fortunately the nice previous owners left behind some other umbrellas. A very nice one, too.

So far we never needed airco in Spain. Here we have used it, set to 29-30º.