Raindrop sacrifice
We decided to insulate the new porch roof in an effort to decrease the
heat that radiates from the toasty tin.
The plan is to use this as an
experiment to see if we want to do a similar thing on the first
porch.
One downside is the sound of
rain drops on our tin roof being muffled, which is no small thing to
delete. Doing this porch first will help us to determine just how much
of the natural rain drop melody will be sacrificed for a little thermal
efficiency.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Now you're just a couple of sliding glass doors away from a conservatory. 
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Roland_Smith
— Wed Aug 29 19:33:11 2012
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Sunroom
Roland --- We actually are thinking of a sunroom eventually, mostly because we've eaten every meal on the north porch since it was installed and aren't looking forward to having to move back inside when it gets cold! I don't think we'll heat the sunroom, though, so it'll probably just be for spring and fall dining/hanging out/seed starting, and I'll want it to get as much winter sun as possible. That means we'll probably put it on the south side of the trailer, vs. this porch which is on the east for cool summer afternoons.
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anna
— Thu Aug 30 08:59:10 2012
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