Mount exterior solar shades on a west-facing home near the town center, Palestine, TX 75801 (Anderson County).

The west-facing windows on this home take direct afternoon sun for four straight summer months, and the AC runs flat-out to fight it. Ground-mounted exterior solar shade screens cut that heat gain before it ever reaches the glass.

Where

a west-facing home near the town center, Palestine, TX 75801 (Anderson County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$280 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after photos per window + mounting-hardware photo + surface-temp reading before/after + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-04

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Confirm each targeted window faces west and takes direct afternoon sun, and measure the window dimensions for the shade screen size.
2. 2. Mount the exterior solar shade hardware at ground level or from a short stepladder under 6 ft, with a spotter present, tensioning the screen across the full window opening.
3. 3. Record an interior glass surface-temperature reading before the shade is deployed and again once it is fully tensioned in direct sun.
4. 4. Confirm the mounting hardware is secure and will not rattle loose or sag under wind load, and photograph the finished installation on each window.

What counts as done

• Before photo of each unshaded west-facing window
• After photo of the mounted, tensioned shade screen
• Interior glass surface-temperature reading before and after (infrared thermometer or thermometer strip)

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.