Keep
Your Home, RV, Boat or Office
Warmer in Winter and Cooler in Summer
With our
low-cost passive Thermal Barrier Fabric,
Black Solar Heating Drapes and Low Cost Solar Radiant Window Heating Panels
The high cost to keep your home warmer in winter and cooler in summer is now much more affordable with our three low-cost radiant thermal products
now available from the company that invented them: ClearDome Solar Thermal.
These unique thermal products are all UV resistant and the first of their
type anywhere. Our Black Solar Heating Drapes are now our most popular and affordable home heating product made.
Lightweight reflective Thermal Barrier Fabric is durable and safe to use
Shown in the photo on the left is our tough new 75% reflective Thermal Barrier Fabric that can be used in both summer and winter, indoors and outdoors, to restrict the natural flow of heat radiating inside when it's warm or trying to flow out a window when it's cold. Room air temps will rise as much as 10 degrees in the winter with the same amount of heat indoors when all windows in a room are covered.
It's made
of a weaved, super tough high density polyethylene plastic that's coated
with a thin, highly reflective metallized surface. The most effective winter
use is hanging it on the inside of windows or skylights, where 50% of a
building's warm air is lost to the cold outdoors. It comes with easy to
attach suction cup hooks that are placed on the four corners of the glass
for quick fabric mounting. It can be sewn for drapery rods or hung outside
of cloth drapes for increased performance.
Nearly
half the incoming light will still enter the room and you can still see
outdoors through the fabric.
We're now offering a limited beta test for the world's most solar reflective and coolest tarp made. It's about 25% more reflective
than Thermal Barrier Fabric and is solid, very flexible, and water resistant.
It's called SolaReflex CoolTarp (click for more details)
and it comes with optional brass grommets for easy installation anywhere in the hot sun.
It will passively cool spaces underneath the hot summer sun even better than Thermal Barrier Fabric by reflecting all the blazing sunlight away from patios, tents, over roofs, RV's and boats, carports, work spaces, animal enclosures, and
garden areas that are warmed by too much sunlight. Areas below CoolTarp will stay within about 10-15 degrees of the ambient air temps. Unlike typical painted or
light colored tarps that absorb the sun's energy and get very hot underneath in summer sun, CoolTarp is made of our top-rated reflective metallized SolaReflex specially coated on both sides of a rip-stop type plastic sheet that allows only a
very small amount of heat to pass through, and no light, keeping
that surface and space below it cool.
The three scenes below demonstrate Thermal Barrier Fabric's exterior cooling ability on a green painted wooden patio deck. The fabric has optional grommets and edge trim (suggested for outdoor use) and is hung from ropes on one side (shown) and attached to the wall with screw hooks on the other. This was on a sunny 74 degree F day in summer. This type of filtered light is ideal for plant growth. It also provides excellent cold weather frost protection for potted and garden plants and trees.
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reusable grommet for both the Solar Heating Drape and Thermal
Barrier Fabrics you can add to your own thermal fabric. Each grommet, seen on the right, has 14 pins that pass through the fabric for strong holding in moderate wind.
We suggest one grommet every 2-3 feet and on every corner for the best support. The
large hole at the center of the grommet and the end loup are both 1/2" round.
They only cost 69 cents per grommet and can be ordered from the PayPal order link above.
The photo below shows our standard 7' X 8' small Thermal Barrier Fabric. Both small size fabrics sell for $89 and can be ordered by clicking on the PayPal links above. A larger precut size of Thermal Barrier Fabric measuring 14' x 20' sells for $289, and even larger bulk sizes are available on request. All sizes and fabrics can easily be cut with scissors to fit any size window and will not unravel after being cut. Add about 3-5" length and width to allow for slight edge curling. It can also be used on outings and camping trips to reduce summer heat and sun over tents and in the open.
The photo
below shows it hung as an exterior curtain on a patio door, which in summer
reduces heat penetration to the inside by 70% while dropping the light
transmission by slightly less than half. It can also be placed over a patio
cover, used as window awning, or suspended by hooks or ropes, (photos above)
with the same results. As an indoor curtain it keeps most heat indoors
at night, or on north facing windows during the day, drastically reducing
heating bills.
In numerous cold weather tests, when the outdoor temperature
at night was 31 degrees and the inside bare glass temperature (double pane
glass) was 56 degrees, the temperature on the
room
side of the radiant barrier fabric was a warm 71 degrees, only one degree
cooler than the insulated inside wall temperature. A series of tests
by an environmental testing agency in Missouri with 25 degree temps outdoors
showed the same results, the same as another customer in Minnesota. It's
better than adding an insulated wall to the inside of the glass becaused
instead of absorbing the heat, it reflects it back into the room. Questions? click here and ask for Deris
Outdoors, it can be also be used for screens over windows or as a temporary summer thermal shadecloth on a roof or greenhouse to reduce solar heat gain while passing 45% diffused light that's ideal for plant growth. As an added benefit, 15 mph winds will slow to only 2-3 mph behind the fabric outdoors on your next outing, which nearly eliminates the wind chill effect on cool days.
No other thermal barrier-related fabric offers this many benefits for controlling temperatures both outdoors and indoors. At only two pounds, the small piece is easy to install and remove. The only other competetive thermal window coverings available cost about 10 times the price of our standard size, with nearly 100% sun blockage, and cannot be used outdoors or in wind control situations.
Solar heating
drapes turn sunlit windows into giant solar radiators,
and it even melts snow & ice!
Now your
sunlit windows at home, in your RV, boat or camper can be transformed into
giant solar radiators with our new interior window Radiant solar heating
drapes. It can also be laid over snow or ice outdoors on sunlit areas to
increase melting--even on freezing days.
Instead of being highly reflective like the thermal barrier fabric,
it is a deep black, heat and UV resistant HDPE (high density polyethylene)
plastic fabric specially designed to absorb solar energy and efficiently
convert it to heat. These are not blackout curtains as the photo to the
right demonstrates. Filtered sunlight will enter the room 
and
the outdoors is visible from the inside during the day. When positioned
near a glass surface, peak winter midday temperatures as high as 135 degrees F
degrees are generated and radiated back into the room as long as direct
sunlight touches the heat absorber surface.
If you choose to not block the view outdoors, one option is to
lay the drapes flat on the sunlit floor near windows. Stand or sit over in the center of this unique solar heating fabric
and you'll feel the sun's soothing heat radiating up and around you, coming from the fabric.
Your pets will love it too!
By
heating the glass and fabric well above the ambient room temperature, heat
can't escape out the windows and they both become perfect thermal barriers
to help keep room temperatures warmer. Hot always travels to cold, so the radiant heat inside the room is absorbed by
cooler walls, the floor and furniture, and is stored for
release back into the room when the temperatures drops.
Also, most
or all moisture condensation on the glass is eliminated on solar drape
covered sunlit windows, reducing window frame damage and mold formation
on the frames. The drapes can be cut to fit any window size and attached
with wall mounted hooks, hung on curtain rods, or hung from the included
suction cup hooks that attach to the window glass. To melt snow or ice outdoors in sunlit areas just lay the drapes
over the snow or ice covered area such as a driveway or walkway and place rocks or bricks on the corners to prevent
wind from lifting the fabric. It is unaffected by freezing temperatures or moisture.
This durable solar heat absorbing fabric will not unravel after being cut and is available for purchase in two standard sizes and larger bulk sizes over 500 square feet.
It's only $89 plus shipping for the standard 6' x 9' patio door size or
$289 for the larger 12' x 22' size--four times larger than the small piece.
Much larger
unlimited bulk sizes of both fabrics can be special ordered at a discount
by sending your email request.
Another type
of behind-the-glass solar heating product that's designed to maximize smaller window
heat generation weighs only
one pound and also hangs on a sunlit south or east facing window with attached suction cups. It's called
our thin film Interior Window Radiant Solar Heating Panel, 
(shown
below on a patio door) and it follows the ClearDome style of heating, where
the clear window glass passes sunlight and helps trap the heat to raise
the temperature. It measures 2' x 4', is made of a special non-toxic deep black polycarbonate film. and can be cut with scissors to fit
smaller windows. Smaller piece generate less heat.
On larger windows it's small enough to allow more direct sunlight to pass into the room than the heating fabric, but because of it's excellent solar absorption qualities, light thermal mass, and close proximity to the glass, generates 12% more heat than and equal size piece of solar heating drapes when touched by the sun. Room-side temperatures can reach 135-145 degrees F (nearly as hot as an a conventional baseboard radiator), and like the other heating products mentioned, it's safe and free to operate. Each panel is available at our low price of only $59 each. Only one is packed in each shipping tube. For large windows or doors, add more panels to create even more radiant heat or use the solar heating drapes. Keep in mind that these panels completely block the view to the outside. All the above thermal products are ideal for vacation homes where higher interior temps are needed to prevent freezing pipe damage.
New SolaReflex Passive Cooling panels stop most solar heat intrusion on roofs
We're also
testing an entirely new type of removable passive solar cooling device
called SolaReflex passive
cooling panels that reject all but 5-10 degrees of solar generated
heat on roofs or exterior walls. In recent summer tests on a flat,
conventional roof with 142+ degree F surface temperatures, the prototype
panels kept the roof temperature at about 78 degrees on a 73 degree day.
See photos of the panels at work on our sneak peek web
page. High temperature solar generated heat absorption on buildings,
RV's or campers of all sizes can now be drastically reduced during blazing
hot summer months. Also, our Thermal barrier fabric is available now for roof and wall passive solar heat reduction.
It's more affordable and easier to install.
Questions? click here
Please return
to our homepage for more information about our solar forced air heaters,
parabolic cooking reflectors, water heating pads for hot tubs, and other
innovative solar thermal products.
Solar
air heaters · Thermal barrier fabric/solar heating drapes · SolaReflex
parabolic solar cookers ·
Hot tub/spa water heating pads
SolarReflex
reflective/daylighting panels & foil (formerly SolarFlex) ·
NEW! Rechargable
Soothing Sun Heating Pad
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