Posted by: "Joyce O" theoldhen@gmail.com
> We have the opening framed in.
> These windows will be in a chicken house.
Hi Joyce;
I trust that these windows will be facing South.
Is that correct?
> Yes.. it will give the neighbors something to talk about ;)
Actually, most of the older chicken coops have lots
of south facing glass. Used to be, you could tell which
direction was which on very overcast days, by looking
at which side of the chicken coops they put the windows.
I think there was a set of plans (or more than one) that
the federal government distributed through the Farm
Bureaus. During the Solar craze of the 1970s and 80s,
there were still a lot of them around. I think most were
built before WWII. They were passive Solar buildings
that really worked. Putting windows on the South wall
not only keeps it warm in Winter, iit also the best wall
for shading the windows in Summer.
> The wall measures 20 feet long and is approximately
> 6 1/2 to 7 feet high.
>
> I am unsure how to go about the bearing posts,
> altho I have a good idea.
As Michael suggests, you can still have structural
posts between windows that appear to be right against
each other, so it should not be a problem.
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