solar screens in winter? (Hurst: real estate, insurance, brokers)

[DFWbound]

Wow what a learning experience the last year has been, we moved into corporate housing for 3 months and found a house to buy in June. Horrible service from lazy real estate brokers, insurance agents, home inspectors, just about everyone involved. I find that Texas has a lot of half-assed people in it. They tell you they will do something, then don't!! Just getting them to return a phone call in the same day is a major achievement. I swear if they did business like this in many other parts of the country they would be fired, or their business would go under. Now that I've lived here a while I found out it is tolerated way too much, and something you have to put up with. On the plus side if you do your job well, and do what you say you will, you will outperform over half your competition.

Ok now that my rant is over, I have a question. We bought a house with Solar screens, they have a white plastic grid on the inside to make it look like window panes, I guess, and an inch wide white plastic frame around the outside....we are missing 2 and I cant find anyplace that sells them....when I ask at home depot or lowes they just point me toward the aisle with the rolls of screen. Do I have to try and make them from scratch?, or is there a window and door company that would carry the kind I need? Now that it's wintertime are you supposed to take them down and store them? It makes sense if they reflect sunlight that taking them down in the winter would keep your house warmer, or is it such a negligable difference that people just leave them up year round?

[jbb303]

Look up Ameritex Builders Supply in Hurst. I used them about 10 years ago to make some custom solar screens for something at work. They were real reasonable and are still in business as far as I'm aware.

I don't have any personal experience using them on my home, but I would think the difference in temperature in the house would be negligible. At least not worth the effort and the wear and tear that taking them down and putting them up would cause.