Can Energy Efficient Windows Melt a Car? Is This a Violation Against Quiet Enjoyment?
I found an article on Yahoo this morning when I started up my web browser entitled Woman Claims Energy Efficient Windows are Melting Her Toyota Prius. It's an interesting story.
A Southern California woman claims her neighbor's energy efficient window is reflecting a concentrated amount of sunlight onto her car, which is parked in her own carport. The mirrors and anything plastic on the car is melting as if they were in a slow cooking oven.
A closer look, armed with a thermometer, shows that the temperatures from the energy efficient windows and reflected sunlight shows temperatures in excess of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, in less than five minutes on a cloudy day!
Apparently reports about energy efficient windows and their concentrated reflected sunlight are popping up across the entire country, and the National Association of Home Builders are even conducting their own study on the issue.
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But the Los Angeles City Department of Building and Safely says that even if the window is the source of the damage on the car, that nothing can be done because it's not illegal to install energy efficient windows in a home. I agree that the installation may not be illegal, but could it be a violation of quiet enjoyment for the woman who's car is melting due to the window?
Yes, she possibly could park her car somewhere else, but this takes away from the use of her carport, unless she wants to bake pottery in it.
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Quiet enjoyment, according to LegalDefinitions.co, is "The right of a property owner or tenant to enjoy his or her property without interference. Disruption of quiet enjoyment may constitute a nuisance."
The Neighbor's energy efficient window may not be illegal, or violate and codes, but the woman with the melting car could take legal actions against her neighbor anyway.
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