Why Walpole
Why The Screened Porch Empties Out At Four
A screened porch is the best room in a Walpole house from June to September, right up until the sun gets low enough to come in sideways. Overhead sun is the roof's job. Once the sun drops below the fascia the roof handles nothing, and on a west facing porch that starts in the middle of the afternoon. People get up, go inside, and the porch sits empty through the nicest part of the day.
An exterior mesh shade mounts to the porch frame on the sun side and drops over the screen. It stops the heat and the glare outside, which is why the same fabric performs several times better out there than any shade hung indoors. An open weave keeps the view of the yard, and on the older streets where the houses sit close, a tighter weave gives the porch some privacy from the next deck over.
The mix in Walpole is wide. Postwar capes near the center on Route 27, colonials on the streets running toward Bird Park and the Adams Farm trails, and bigger houses on bigger lots down toward South Walpole and the Neponset. The porch sizes vary just as much, and past about eight feet of width a shade should be motorized. It is heavy at that size, and the motor pairs with a wind sensor that pulls the shade up on its own when a storm comes through.
Our exterior roller shades use marine grade fabric, aluminum housings, and wind rated side tracks. Kevin, our owner, drives out to Walpole himself to measure and comes back himself to install. He will tell you within a few minutes on the porch which side needs a shade and which side does not.
