{"id":27489,"date":"2016-10-24T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27489"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T01:21:30","slug":"aluminet-shade-cloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/aluminet-shade-cloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminet Shade Cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a panel of 70% Aluminet shade cloth for my chicken run last spring, and I&#8217;ve found that it&#8217;s remarkable stuff. Shade cloth is designed for gardeners and greenhouses, and is a knitted or woven fabric that blocks a specific percentage of shade. Most shade cloth is black, but Aluminet is made from an aluminized thread. In addition to shading, it also reflects heat.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature inside my chicken run is usually 5-10 degrees cooler than the temperature just outside. And cooling breezes pass right through this stuff like it&#8217;s not even there! I&#8217;m planning on buying another couple of panels of this stuff to hang on our upper deck where the temperature goes over 100 degrees (in Seattle!). It&#8217;s sturdy lightweight stuff. Mine went through a whole summer resting and rubbing against the cage wire of the run with no perceptible damage except a couple of pulled threads. <\/p>\n<p>My only complaint is that it makes my chicken run look like a giant baked potato! Still, I can live with that. I understand that this stuff is popular at Burning Man, which makes a great deal of sense. It&#8217;s not cheap, but it&#8217;s well worth the extra cost, because it does such a great job keeping things cool. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflects unwanted heat, radiation, and light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27491,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27489\/revisions\/27491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}