Window Insulation Energy Saving Idea

Please Read. Not only are drafts from the outside wasting your heat energy, but cold windows also waste heat energy, and create 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 waste of heat energy there. 2. You can purchase 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 shrink” 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. Regular phone book paper is quite thin, so you may want to consider an extra layer of it or with white paper. These colors will let a higher level of light in than the yellow colored “yellow pages”. The lighter colors can also be used in the hot times of the year to reflect sunlight and/or infrared heat waves, and will help your air conditioner work better.. Newspaper can also be used, but it’s a good idea to cut it into smaller squares or rectangles to work with. If you think it will be an eyesore in your neighborhood, then choose an appropriate colored poster board or paper. Wax paper is frosted/semi-opaque , resistant to being damp. 4. The goal is …

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