The courtyard that never dries
Buy nothing yetMove the table before you buy the pergola.
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 actually buys hours back is allowed to win.
Reading at
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.
“No” means the model does not support this use under the conditions being read. The controlling limits are listed below.
Past the limit How long it stays wet is about 24h — 12h over (at most 12h)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.
Soaked here, things stay wet into the next day for 12 months of the year. That, not rainfall, is what destroys what you leave out.
Repeated wetting with slow drying is what actually destroys outdoor things, far more than rainfall totals.
What would change this. This would change if how long it stays wet were measured and came out differently. The figure is an estimate, not a tape.
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