@Arnold D. Cribari
You keep coming up with these good ideas for themes of threads, but so many of our friends are busy this summer doing other outdoor exercises….
keep the ideas flowing 😄
As for my contribution, My train room is in a second floor of a shop building I built with retirement in mind. It has a bench dormer for added height and room for the layout. With two dormers and windows in front and two windows in the rear there’s lots of added sunlight and heat from the wonderful rays.
So after six years I finally hung window blinds in all five windows, a window in the eve, I purchased the blinds on sale from Lowe’s four years ago. They are the new ones without the wands. My guess they totaled over $100.
Now, I rarely need to turn on the air conditioning in the late afternoon. The blinds are added insulation by blocking the rays from the trains. A savings on the monthly power bill.
When I built the shop building I installed a through the wall heat pump. I wish it was a central heat pump now because of the space the one from the wall takes up from the layout. Something I mentioned to help the next train guy who builds his retirement shop.
I though I had everything figured out…
