Recently put a glass storm door in. The glass with direct sunlight is heating up my wooden door. Should I be worried?
Front door wooden temp reading at 208 degrees
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Lucky Phil
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I think that I would put a shade of mini blind on the door. That heat could start drying out the wooden door and cause it to warp, especially if it's a thinner door.
jebatty
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Perhaps you should celebrate, as you stumbled onto the simplest, yet effective, solar heat solution for the home: simply a box with a glass front. Think of what you could do to provide heat if that box was painted black on the inside, with a dampered vent and a simple thermostat and fan to vent house air into the box and out into the house when the temperature reached 120F inside the box.
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