Heat
in the home?

View from the bedroom to the outside. The vertical blaind awnings markilux 876 with white fabric cover are half lowered.

Keeping your home cool.
What to do about heat in the home?

Summer not only brings sunshine, but also hot temperatures that can put a strain on the indoor climate. Without suitable measures, it can quickly become unbearably hot in your own four faces. Sleeping in the heat in the attic or working from home in a non-air-conditioned office can become torture. But what can you do to combat the heat in your home?

There are numerous ways to keep your home cool - without air conditioning. With the right tips, you can prevent your rooms from heating up too much. Effective solar protection, targeted ventilation and natural shade are just some of the measures that help to keep the room cool and comfortable, even on hot summer days. Let markilux inspire you on how to keep your home pleasantly cool even in summer temperatures.

Tips against heat
in the home

As soon as the first rays of sunshine shine longer and more intensely on the house, you quickly notice how the temperature indoors rises. Especially during longer heatwaves, temperatures develop that can be a real problem. When not even airing your home at night can help to cool it down again, the question arises: What can I do to combat the heat in my home? How can I keep my home cool? Ideally even without air conditioning?

One of the most essential tips against heat in the home is to prevent it before the rooms can even heat up. If the sun's rays are blocked before they enter the building through the window and are converted into heat, the living space remains cool and comfortable. Ideally, the home can even be kept cool without air conditioning. Vertical blinds can achieve exactly this effect and are therefore effective sun and anti-glare protection against heat build-up.

Vertical blinds

markilux vertical blinds as solar protection for your windows. As a vertically guided awning, it offers the advantage of being both sun and anti-glare protection in one. Whether the room needs to be completely darkened or light transmission is desired, both are possible thanks to a large selection of awning fabrics. Vertical blinds can be controlled automatically so that the awning always lowers at the right time. This prevents the build-up of heat in the home.

Advantages at a glance

Keep your home cool (even without air conditioning)

Sun and anti-glare protection

Discreet integration into the façade possible

Transparent fabrics provide solar protection and offer a view outside at the same time

Thanks to automatic control, the awning lowers before it's too late

Detail view of vertical cassette awning markilux 776: gray frame, wall mounted.
Front view of a modern white house with garden. The house has very large windows to which the vertical blinds mx 879 and mx 876 with cream-colored fabric cover have been attached.
Side view of a house with several vertical blinds mx 876 with cream fabric cover and an underglass awning mx 879 with yellow fabric cover
White plaster building, detail view window with vertical blaind markilux 876.

Marquisolettes

The marquisolette is a special type of vertical blind. The upper part of the awning runs perpendicular to the window. The lower part of the awning is set up using drop-arms so that maximum shading can also be achieved below the awning. At the same time, this allows natural light to enter. However, as the awning does not connect to the entire surface of the façade, complete shading cannot always be guaranteed, depending on the sun position or installation situation.

Advantages at a glance

Combination of vertical roller blind and drop-arm awning

Discreet integration into the façade possible

Flexible incidence of light thanks to the inclination of the lower part of the awning

Keep your home cool while enjoying the view outside

Brick house equipped with vertical cassette awnings mx 776 and marquisolettes mx 740.
Marquisolette mx 740 with beige fabric cover installed on a balcony of an apartment building
Flat roof house with conservatory equipped with markilux 740 skylight/sunroom awnings and conservatory awnings.

Triangular blinds

Special windows require special solar protection. Just because the shape of your window doesn't quite fit the norm doesn't mean you have to put up with life and heat in your flat or house. Our markilux 893 model has been developed to shade triangular windows optimally, precisely and without gaps.

Advantages at a glance

Sun and anti-glare protection for special windows

Perfect fit for triangular windows and glass surfaces

Cooling attic flats: Awning reduces heat in the attic

Keeps the interior cool, even without air conditioning

Triangular awning mx 893 mounted in front of a wooden hut. The awning has a green fabric cover and anthracite-colored frame.
Detailed view of the cassette of a triangular awning mx 893 in front of a wooden hut.
Detailed view of the mx 893 triangular awning attached to the front of a wooden hut. The awning has a green fabric cover and anthracite-colored frame
The conservatory of a brick house has awnings with yellow fabric cover for shading.

Conservatory awnings

Large glass surfaces or conservatories are predestined to generate a lot of heat indoors. The sun's rays enter the building through the glass panes and are converted into heat. Awnings can be used to prevent rooms from heating up. The heat from the sun stays outside and the rooms remain pleasantly cool.

Advantages at a glance

Keep your home cool without air conditioning: reduce the need for cooling by preventing direct sunlight

Large-area sun and anti-glare protection

Can be used flexibly on skylights, on or under glass canopies and conservatories

Can be combined with vertical solar protection solutions

Modern detached house with a corner of windows combined with skylight/sunroom awnings.
Interior view of a modern house with a corner of windows combined with skylight/sunroom awnings.
Interior view of a modern house with a corner of windows combined with skylight/sunroom awnings.

Do you want to keep your home cool?
Discover our references.

  • White house with markilux vertical shade on the upper floor and a pergola awning on the balcony below. Visually in harmony with the house.
  • Reference picture: Corner extension with window fronts equipped with marquisolettes markilux 740, gray and white striped fabric cover.
  • Brick building, loft-like, with red markilux vertical blaindows
  • Dormer with triangular window and custom-fit vertical blaind awning markilux 893 with green fabric cover.
  • Vertical blaind awning markilux 620 with white frame and gray fabric cover attached to a round conservatory of a family house.
  • Reference object: brick building with vertical blainds markilux 620 with gray fabric cover.
  • White house with triangular gable window, half extended window awning markilux 893, triangular.
  • Farmhouse with skylight shaded with a markilux above glass awning
  • Several drop-arm cassette awnings markilux 730 with blue and white striped fabric cover, installed in front of the windows of a white plaster building.

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