Window film to block sun heat

An interesting experience.... last winter I applied Storm King Heat Shrink Window Film on the windows. This is the stuff that you tape the plastic around the window frame and use a heat gun to shrink it to a pretty clear, invisible film over the window.

I figured I'd have to take it down during the summer, but surprise !! The shrink wrap actually is keeping the house cooler !! Guess the layer of air is keeping heat out of the house.

There are a lot of windows which I don't use, so I'm keeping the window plastic on year round. the shrink wrap stuff stays almost crystal clear.

Even with screens, flies manage to get into the windows but the plastic stops them.

I had a window with a venetian blind fitted into the casement... just adjusted the blinds the way I wanted and sealed the window off with shrink wrap, over the top of the venetian blind. It's been working really well... can't adjust the blinds, but they were adjusted well to begin with

fwiw

Peter

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Peter
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I noticed a good deal of solar gain in the afternoon from one big window in my house. The window has mini-blinds that I pretty much never open anyway, so for the heck of it I just taped a mylar "space blanket" over the window. The afternoon temp near the window dropped dramatically, reducing the overall A/C load, and with the mini-blinds closed anyway, you can't see the space blanket from the outside. There is another window in the room that doesn't get blasted by the sun so the room still gets plenty of natural light.

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Pete C.

Google "In'flector"

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cavedweller

That few minutes of effort came after a lot of practice. The pros make it look like a piece of cake but the application frustrates a lot of DIYers.

R

It's like welding. It's like ANYTHING. After you do it a couple of thousand hours, it is easy and looks easy to an onlooker. And I don't care what it is. Even brain surgery.

Steve

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SteveB

"SteveB" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:

welding is more fun.

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Jim Yanik

If your windows are double pane sealed units, check out the warranty on the glass. We recently changed our windows and in the process of doing research for the project discovered that all the manufacturers available to use voided their warranties if a film was applied to the windows.

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