How to Seal Windows for Winter and Summer
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- University of Maine Cooperative Extension talks about how to save energy with inexpensive solutions for insulating windows. Tips and demonstrations on using tools such as bubble wrap, plastic, painters tape, and cardboard to make your own indoor shutters.
Just exactly the info I was looking for to keep this old house from losing so much heat! Thank you for making it so straight forward and not expensive🤗
The talks about how to save energy with inexpensive solutions for insulating windows, your video explain it a lot..
The DIY indoor shutter from cardboard, HD aluminium foil, duct tape and foam weather-stripping is a great idea! Thank you :)
You are very pleasent to listen too. Thanks for the info. I will make my own storm window with cardboard.
I've been searching the Internet for days looking for confirmation on some of these ideas! I want to make the cardboard inserts! This deserves so many more views and likes! THANKS!
Glad it was helpful!
Straight to the point a quick and simple fix
this is very easy, thank you so much for sharing this... hope to see more saving energy video tips soon...
I love it. I have always been putting plastic on the windows in the winter! It stays over the windows on cloudy days, but is moved to the side on sunny days!
Thank you i live in midwest old home old windowd will try cardboard and bubble wrap this weekend i need all of your tips thanks
very helpful for me, as I have a landlord who still hasn't fixed my window that's broken, he pays for the heat and hot water so I don't worry about heating bills, :)...but this helps with insulating as I wait on him to fix my window. thanks again.
This explains many way to insulate windows for winter ready!! SO HELPfULL!! Thank you!!!!
Great video. Have to seal up some of our old basement windows.
Excellent presentation and great tips. Thanks!
Excellent ideas!! It's nearly Summer and the sliding glass doors are cold on the inside. Imagine what it's like in the Winter! :) I rent, so I've been looking for temporary ideas how to keep the cold air out and you have given me great ideas. 💡 Cheers!
Great video. Good for people who are renting their apartment or house who can't use nails, glue or anything that might take the paint off the wall. I have a patio door instead of patio glass doors, and it has a glass and blinds and I'm going to use bubble wrap for that, and I feel a little air coming from the bottom like right now as we are having a small storm..and very windy. Any suggestions on blocking air from that kind of door, and the front door where something removable would have to be in place as I'm opening that door more often.
Thank you very much for making and uploading this!
I’m trying some these ideas in 2020!
me too! I just locked my windows and realized one top half of the window wasnt even up all the way. Thanks for idiot-proofing this video haha
2021 here
Butp
Great tips! Thanks.
Very very nice instructions
Very good tips. Thank you
Great video!!!! Thanks for this valuable information!!!!!
very well done. thank you.
GREAT educational and helpful instructions
Great and very helpful video!
Thank you for sharing.
I used playdoh for one of my window , inspired by your idea, Thank you.
Thank you. This was very helpful.
thanks .. every idea always helps! .. i was thinking to put all the methods together ! = )
Thanks ... I have plastic, but didn't want to use the tape that came inside because it peels the paint from the windows...never thought of painters tape!
Thank you this is very helpful.
excellent VIDEO !
Good pointers. Thanks,
Thanks straight to the point
Great question! Our experts recommend trying a patio door storm window kit; a plastic painter's drop cloth; or checking with fabric or crafts stores that sell heavy-duty, 60-in width plastic by the yard to create your temporary storm window. We hope this helps!
Great ideas thank you for this video
Awesome video. Thank you for the great tips.
Thank you very much. This is really helpful !! Oh and you madam have beautiful hair.
That was very useful!
Very useful information to have!!!!! Thank you
How can you prevent condensation? It seems you almost have to plastic cover it from the outside. Please advise.
I've not been able to find wrap wider than 16". My windows have large panes and I'll have to use at least two pieces per pane. Do I tape it together, overlap it, or simply butt the pieces together? Thank you, this is a great idea!
Ah. Thanks very much!
Thank you very helpful 😘
Rope Caulk! Cool! 😎👍
Thank you. Very helpful.
For the cardboard method, does the cardboard need to be the exact same length as the window or a little smaller to fit the foam insulation on the sides of the cardboard?
For the cardboard method. Are the materials 4 cardboard from boxes, glue, heavy duty aluminum foil, duct tape, and foam insulation from weatherstrip? Are these all the exact materials? Also will regular glue do or does it need to be super glue?
Just get plastic window covers from Lowes or Home Depot. They work great year round.
Thanks for the video =)
I'm just trying to keep bugs out. Hopefully some of these methods will work
I wish there was a better fix for old windows where the air comes through in the winter.
this is awesome, I love it, its very helpful..
What is the name of the foam caulking that I see you installing at 4:22? I have tried Mortite, but it just doesn't want to stick to the window. Thanks. Great video!
Did you ever figure out the name of it? I would like to know as well
Does food plastic wrap work?
i am gonna buy lots of bubble wraps, thanks
Great 👍
We're do buy the plastic
Would it be better to use bubble wrap and the plastic insulation?
Bronson Stephens Bubble wrap does very little, it's R value is less than 1. Your best bet on older windows is to get an interior window kit that uses a hairdryer to stretch the plastic so it's less noticeable. While this provides the same R value as bubble wrap, it stops cold air from coming in.
Does the plastic have to be stretched and almost perfect to stop the cold? Or as long as its sealed up it's good?
What kind of plastic?
You're darn right I'm using painters tape for this now. Learned that lesson early on when the double sided tape that comes with the plastic window covers ripped the paint off in spring.
We want to point the shiner (more reflective) side of the foil toward the inside of the room when using that method.
That nail didn't want to stay in at the end. LOL
The biggest issue is lazy/daft window installers who don't insulate around the actual window casings and just use inferior caulking on the outside.
She missed the bit about the hair drier in high to shrink the plastic sheet and make it tort so not to be noisy
Which is better? Bigger or smaller bubbles?
Bronson Stephens the smaller bubble ones stuck better at first but in the end I ended up doing a double layer and taped it up. There was alot of moisture in between the glass and bubble wrap tho. That's just how it goes tho
@Lea Lim caulk
So is she a doctor I’m confused
Do it yourself, visit the Woodglut website and find out how.
All that work just grab a blanket and hot water bottle and put over you …buy special blankets just for when your watching TV … windows should have curtains Or blinds to make a room cozy…
Painters tape wont stay
Why is she wearing a lab coat?
Wow Maine you really managed to turn up the level of whiteness to power of cubed.
Glass can have virtually no insulative value. For cheap dollars, bubble wrap can start to save high energy costs. Low bucks, big savings. Glass can be a carbon disaster....
Working with windows that are from 1852.. they are absolutely terrible.. :(
Do not trust painters tape on any painted surface you care about if it will be in place for an extended time.
I am sure that you will find good way to make it on woodprix Webpage.
Why am I here
I will try to do it with Woodglut plans.
Window wonders, type it in the search bar
sorry, rope what? I heard 'clocking', I know that that's not the correct word.
Caulking rope caulk, looks like play doh or clay rope...
Rope caulking
Thank you. I, also, misunderstood. Didn't know about rope caulking until now.
There is also a transcript of the video so if ppl didn't answer the question, you could go to transcript to see what it said. It is computer generated though...through AI technologies...which means computer doesn't always hear correctly either. Also subtitles are computer generated as well but all aides in understanding. Definitely depends upon how clear someone speaks and/or if a heavy regional accent is used. (Maine doesn't seem to have an accent...unlike the new york or massachusetts folks.)
You should use regular caulk for the windows in the sash. It isn’t hard, anyone can do it
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Bubble wrap?..YUK
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Okay I am going to say it since everyone else thinks all these ideas are incredible inventions. Is the gal some sort of Dr. in a white coat? If your windows are crap replace them! I would tear the window out and frame in the hold before I hung bubble wrap up and had to look at it!
Years later but- not everyone can afford or are allowed to replace their windows (hello renters!!!). Such a privileged and ignorant comment to make.
Great for an ugly basement window. What about the actual living space? This is a no brainer if you don’t need to SEE out and don’t care if it looks like hillbilly heaven.
So boring
Great tips! Thanks