The crushed-shell path that keeps moving
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 corner that goes green 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 21h — 9h 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 9 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.
Past the limit Hours of surface heat is about 8h — 3h over (at most 5h)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.
The surface here passes 113°F for about 8 hours, peaking near 137°F. That is the number that matters for bare feet, paws and anything resting on it.
Heat cycling opens joints, lifts finishes and warps boards.
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 corner that goes green
- Weather
- Hot and humid, long cooling season (scenario shape) (from a published source)
- Method
- Twelve representative days across the year, read at the month that punishes hardest