Room for DramaOutside, Actually.

The courtyard that never dries

Before you buy a pergola, move the table.

Every change below is put into the plan and the whole model is run again. That is why a pergola's winter cost shows up here without anybody having written it down, and why the cheapest thing that works is allowed to win.

Reading at

12:00 PM·September

Where it stands now

Something left out here

The reading chair does not work for leaving things out over a year here, and how long it stays wet is why.

  • How long it stays wet is12h over— 24h against at most 12h

    Repeated wetting with slow drying is what actually destroys outdoor things, far more than rainfall totals.

Confidence low (43%). Treat this as a starting hypothesis, not an answer.

What this answer was built from
  • Use
    Something left out here
  • Place
    The reading chair
  • Weather
    Temperate maritime, mild, grey, damp (scenario shape) (from a published source)
  • Method
    Twelve representative days across the year, read at the month that punishes hardest
    • Something left out here is read across a whole day or year rather than at one hour, so single changes are compared on the questions pages instead. Go there.