How badly will those trees affect the sun exposure of the garden/house?

dan_first_time_buyer

Hi,
I've viewed this house today.
The garden is east-facing, which is not the best to start with. However, the garden may be long enough to get some sun till 4 or 5 pm in the spot where the parasol is (the house is a 2-storey). Judging from the shade, this pic may have been taken at around 1 or 2 pm. Would people agree?
How much do you think those trees so close to the garden will block the morning light? I am especially worried the back of the house may never see the sun! Any direct experience?
(Apologies if the question may sound naive, but I'm a first-time buyer with not much experience).
Any comment or help would be hugely appreciated.
Thank you!
Dan

Getting_greyer

Not sure tbh.  In the summer, sunrise will be 4-5 am.  Which means if you're wanting to breakfast by the parasol at say 8ish,  you have 3 hours or so for the sun to move southwards towards its zenith.  I believe the zenith in summer is around 60°  So you could stand in the garden, look due south and up about 60°. You then count one hands breadth left (in line with the relative observation of the sun's movement) for each hour before noon. That will show you the position of the sun at a certain time and you can judge from there.  Remember to aim off for BST too.  There are apps I think with this sort of thing.  One further thing I'd say is that the parasol being there is an indicator that that is the sweet spot.  But yeah hard to tell.

oniongirl

Things I have done trying to figure out how much sun the house we're trying to buy will get:
1. Visit the house at different times of day, skulking past and hoping no one recognises me
2. Load StreetView and go back in time to see different times of day (without knowing what time of day it is)
3. Load the satellite view of Google Maps, guessing at the time of day by shadows.

MgComp

Those trees look quite fine to me, i dont think those would be a problem. But i do think the back of the house would be in the shade most of the day. But if you're planning on keeping the sitting area at the bottom there i think that would be fine!

davilown

If the garden is east facing then the pics have been taken just after midday.  The trees at the back wont affect you in the Summer as the sun will be higher than they are, and in the winter, there wont be any leaves on the trees so that won't affect you either.

Neil49

The back of our house faces north east and in the middle of the summer we were still getting sun hitting the back of the house at midday. We had a few concerns about the positioning but with hindsight it worked well for us as it gave us some welcome shade in the heat of the day. If we wanted sunshine we just moved down the garden.

The house behind us obviously faces the opposite direction and during the summer they had to put up gazebos and sunshades if they wanted to sit outside as the constant sunshine and excessive heat was just too much for them.

Obviously in the winter we get hardly any sunshine at the back but our main bedroom is at the front of the house.

I wouldn't worry too much about the trees as the sun will rise and move across quite quickly. 

Slithery

https://www.suncalc.org/