Window Insulation Energy Saving Idea
May 25, 2010 by admin
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Please Read. Not only are drafts from the outside wasting your heat energy, but cold windows also dissipate heat energy, and make a cool/cold draft near the window. 1. First find out if you need window insulation. Place the back of your hand against the window when it’s cool/cold out. If it feels cool, as compared to your warmer living area, then there is a dissipate of heat energy there. 2. You can buy premade kits to insulate windows. It’s usually some thin plastic you tape around the window sill area, and usually with a space between the plastic and the window. Some of these kits you “heat lessen” with some type of hair dryer to make the plastic tight, and transparent. 3.. If you don’t have any clear plastic, you can use paper insulation. For example, you can use white 8.5 x 11 inch paper, or semi-white from a phone book. Fixed phone book paper is quite thin, so you may want to deliberate an extra layer of it or with white paper. These colors will let a higher level of set alight in than the yellow colored “yellow pages”. The lighter colors can also be used in the hot times of the year to imitate sunlight and/or infrared heat waves, and will help your air conditioner work better.. Newspaper can also be used, but it’s a excellent thought to cut it into smaller squares or rectangles to work with. If you reckon it will be an eyesore in your neighborhood, then choose an appropriate colored poster enter or paper. Wax paper is frosted/semi-opaque , resistant to being damp. 4. The goal is …
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I have a very well insulated smaller saltbox house, and heat it with wood. The windows are thermopane double pane. I am a fresh air fiend, and sometimes leave the kitchen door wide open in winter for a couple of hours in the depth of winter in the early afternoon if the sun is out. Frankly, I can`t stand the indoor temp to go much higher than 60-65 in winter. I was raised in a house where my brother and I slept in an unheated loft. In the cold months, we had 2 or 3 blankets in our beds.
Ok, I know, I like fresh air too alot since I was raised around a smoker and delt with enough second hand smoke.. Also, many people still have single pane windows or even basic double-pane windows that don’t insulate as excellent as they reckon. I guess you don’t have to use much firewood to heat a house thats insulated excellent, and that saves some wood. It may not be alot of wood, but if mililions of people can save some wood, it will save a forest of trees..
If someone is trying to save energy and lowers there thermostat a bit, then at least place “something on your feet” like socks. Also, for outdoors, try not to wear “blue jeans” since they don’t seem to keep you warm in the winter as much as “jogging/sweat pants” do. Wear layers of shirts, and a hat and gloves to you don’t have to worry about being cold as much and you can then function better at whatever you are doing.
By the plastic insulation kit for your windows is probaby the best way to go, that is if you can really get a excellent seal with it. Paper is ok, you might have to use two or more layers. It’s up to you. There could be a tradeoff between the needed set alight comming in the window and the amount of insulation, except in the case of by clear plastics.
Also, alot of peole live in the city and there is basically no chance for an indoor fire for warmth due to “smoke laws” and that they don’t have a fireplace or “stove thing”. Still even if someone can save 100 watts of electricity/heat, and if 1,000 people in a city did it, then thats 100,000 watts just for that city.
This is right. I have lived in places where I couldn`t burn. I feel blessed that I am able to burn wood. My home is set up so the air plenums from the furnace are directly above the stove, which is a converted slot in so there`s an air jacket. I just rout the hot air to the ductwork and let natural convection do the heating.
does that really works?
just by the window at insulator kit at ace hardware for 3.5 or use newspapers if your cheap
Splendid thought, but it looks terrible.
Plastic (ie, the window insulation kit) is the best if you can get a excellent seel. Caulk any drafts, etc first. The main thoughts work by blocking the draft/passage of warm air cooling at the surface of the schooner. Both methods, both like white paper, or clear plastic sheet and then the window kit would be a really excellent method.
thanks
your right, maby clear plastic stick on stuff would be better, allow more set alight in,if that is also what is needed, and the window insulation kits are also excellent only if you can get a excellent seel with it to prevent draft/passage of warm and cool air into the room