[lunarhighway]

I'm in the midle on a home remoddeling and the windows on one side of the house are bouble glazing in an aluminum frame. due to a still to build extention a rather large window at the back is still single pane glass and last winter it was a signifficant heat loss, to the extend that the room temperature would be 4 degrees celcius lower than what was set on the thermostat.

so in order to fix this untill the end of the winter i now stapled transparent plastic to the inside of the window frame and the results are spectacular. room temperature usually sits within half a degree of what is set on the thermostat and stays constant, it even doesn't drop off much after the heating is switched of at night.


i highly recomend this to anyone who for budgetary or practical resons can't upgrate to double pane glass. the plastic i used is the kind used to cover things, i don't think thin packing material would cut it, but anything that keeps a layer of stattic air trapped would work and you could even make a light frame so you could remove the cover during summer this would also allow you to clean up any condense that could be trapped between the layers.

the results where so spectacular for the money invested that i imagine i might win back the investment in heating costs over this winter alone.