Guitar hanging location

lincolnblue

I have just had an extension built with two big velux windows, a big window on one end and one side has patio doors with narrow windows either side. It is a south-facing room so gets plenty of sunshine in the daytime.

I would like to hang a guitar in there but the only place would be on the wall opposite the patio doors and velux windows. Is is a bad idea to have a guitar hanging in direct line of the windows? 

RandallFlagg

I would say yes, not a good idea to have direct sun shining on a guitar, especially an acoustic. We're south facing and on a sunny day the heat through the windows can be fierce. I wouldn't want to put an acoustic guitar in line of that.

ToneControl

the sun hits different walls through the year
you need to avoid sun hitting the guitar
also not above a radiator, or near an often-open window

lincolnblue

Thanks - I thought as much but reassured to hear it too. Shame as I would have wanted to have a guitar in there. I could have one on a stand in a corner but with young children it's not such a good idea!

TheBigDipper

It's pretty much how I bellied the top of a L'Arrivee in 2012 - three months in a sunny room on a stand in direct sunlight for a few hours a day. It still hasn't settled down, but I have the bridge lowered so it plays well enough, just no longer sings or projects as well as it used to. 

Don't do it! 

Mudcrutch

My main audio listening room is south facing with wall to wall large patio doors.
It can get so hot in summer I don’t use it even with black Venetian blinds and black voils to keep the sun out.
I wouldn’t hang any of my guitars in there because of temperatures and light.
I do have a couple in rotation on floor stands out of the light but never the summer.
Its one of the reasons I’ve built a studio in another room that’s north facing to keep my guitars in.

ToneControl

Mudcrutch said:

My main audio listening room is south facing with wall to wall large patio doors.
It can get so hot in summer I don’t use it even with black Venetian blinds and black voils to keep the sun out.
I wouldn’t hang any of my guitars in there because of temperatures and light.
I do have a couple in rotation on floor stands out of the light but never the summer.
Its one of the reasons I’ve built a studio in another room that’s north facing to keep my guitars in.

you need to shelter the windows with screens or a canopy