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How to Install 3M Window Film Insulation (Ecobob.co.nz)
The following is a short video on how you can insulate your home with ease. Perfect for renters or those on a budget. INSTRUCTIONS BELOW!
Windows allow for sunlight, which can heat your home, but they are also terrible insulators as heat escapes through windows making for cold living environments.
DIY double glazing at home can remedy this heat loss, and its easy and cheap to achieve. Watch the video, and follow the instructions below, you’ll be warm and cosy in next to no time.
You’ll need the following:
Heat Shrink Plastic Wrap (Available in different sizes)
Measuring tape
Hair Dryer
Double Sided Tape (We recommend you buy an extra roll of tape as we ran out when doing our windows)
Scissors
Spoon
Cloth and window cleaner
How to install the film insulation step by step:
1. Clean the window frame, and the window itself. Some people suggest cleaning the frame with alcohol.
2. Next, measure the window for the plastic sheet.
3. Cut the plastic sheet to the size of the window and add 5cm to both the width and length. This is to ensure an adequate fit on the window frame, you will cut off the excess sheet later.
4. Place double sided tape around the window frame, press firmly to help it stick.
5. Then, take the backing off the double sided tape.
6. Attach the plastic film to the window FRAME, not the glass itself. Restick and stretch to get the film evenly distributed.
7. Gently run the back of a spoon over the taped areas to ensure that the plastic sheet and the sticky tape have bonded sufficiently.
8. Now use a hair dryer to gently blow warm air over the widow, thereby eliminating creases and curves in the plastic. It should appear smooth like glass.
9. Finally, take your scissors and carefully cut away any excess plastic on the window frame.
And that, is, it.
Within a few minutes you have double glazed your window, ensuring minimal heat loss, and maximum warmth.
Repeat this process on any number of windows in your household, paying particular attention to the rooms you spend most of your time in.
If you found this video helpful, click the like button, and check out Ecobob.co.nz
This video was made with the help of TheWriteStuff.nz
Thanks.
Windows allow for sunlight, which can heat your home, but they are also terrible insulators as heat escapes through windows making for cold living environments.
DIY double glazing at home can remedy this heat loss, and its easy and cheap to achieve. Watch the video, and follow the instructions below, you’ll be warm and cosy in next to no time.
You’ll need the following:
Heat Shrink Plastic Wrap (Available in different sizes)
Measuring tape
Hair Dryer
Double Sided Tape (We recommend you buy an extra roll of tape as we ran out when doing our windows)
Scissors
Spoon
Cloth and window cleaner
How to install the film insulation step by step:
1. Clean the window frame, and the window itself. Some people suggest cleaning the frame with alcohol.
2. Next, measure the window for the plastic sheet.
3. Cut the plastic sheet to the size of the window and add 5cm to both the width and length. This is to ensure an adequate fit on the window frame, you will cut off the excess sheet later.
4. Place double sided tape around the window frame, press firmly to help it stick.
5. Then, take the backing off the double sided tape.
6. Attach the plastic film to the window FRAME, not the glass itself. Restick and stretch to get the film evenly distributed.
7. Gently run the back of a spoon over the taped areas to ensure that the plastic sheet and the sticky tape have bonded sufficiently.
8. Now use a hair dryer to gently blow warm air over the widow, thereby eliminating creases and curves in the plastic. It should appear smooth like glass.
9. Finally, take your scissors and carefully cut away any excess plastic on the window frame.
And that, is, it.
Within a few minutes you have double glazed your window, ensuring minimal heat loss, and maximum warmth.
Repeat this process on any number of windows in your household, paying particular attention to the rooms you spend most of your time in.
If you found this video helpful, click the like button, and check out Ecobob.co.nz
This video was made with the help of TheWriteStuff.nz
Thanks.
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Is the plastic a special plastic for insulation or what?
I’m having a problem lately with the mould on the wall spreading from the moisturized window due to the temperature difference of inside and outside😢 will this insulating layer work enough for this problem?
Yes, the moisture on the window is causing the mold. Get rid of the water with insulation and likely the mold will stop actively growing. You will have to use bleach to get ride of mold spores left behind.
Naisss
Love your video. Took the fear away of having to do this myself. I used to have the Amazing Austrian Gentleman do these things for me. Some of my windows still have the 3M plastic on them. But alas some windows need another go. I’m wiping water more that twice a day. From the inside! Of course! The plastic on it prevents the condensation. Thank you. Great video all the way round.
I'm bald I don't own a hair drier.
I purchased a hair dryer from Goodwill for $4
Ha. Dig that
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I have a feeling my cats would destroy it
To everyone who is having trouble with the backing coming off the tape. The tape is too cold, if it starts separating, warm it with a heat strip gun as you peel it. Works like a charm.
I recommend to using 3M scotch magic tape, and One day later use Hair Dryer. 1 layer is double sided tape, 2 layer shrink film, Trim all excess film, then 3 Magic Tape. place Magic tape half on the shrink film sides and other half must be on the window. With this way you can support the shrink film and also have smoother edges.
I can't seem to get the tape to peel any tips
Bring on the 50% increase in heating bills this winter 2021!!!
The tape is rubbish. I cannot remove the paper liner from the tape. On the video it looks like the person bought a different tape. My kit did not come with the tape like the one shown on the video. I cannot find a video which shows how to peel the paper liner from the tape.
I am in the same boat..I'm so mad..so my daughter tried, same problem..now what?
Tape is rubbish... it's got weak stick and one side doesn't peel off...it doesn't seem to be 3M technology or maybe now the Chinese is producing it...Bought from Amazon and tried to install today...Utterly rubbish
I am facing the same problem. When I am trying to peel the side with paper the paper breaks even if I do it very slow. Did you find an option?
@@kunalkis1812kk The tape is rubbish. I cannot remove the paper liner from the tape. On the video it looks like the person bought a different tape. My kit did not come with the tape like the one shown on the video. I cannot find a video which shows how to peel the paper liner from the tape.
I just watched on another video from the states to leave the adhesive tape on for about 15mins to let kt become tacky before peeling the double side off. I am about to apply this and see if it works.
@@deepee5897 good tip, I would add blow some heat onto the tape as well then peel it off with nail.
Helpful Thanks!
Ah, so there's supposed to be space between the window and the film. Thanks!
Yes the still air works as an insulator
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Does this film really works as heat insulator? We have hot summers here, where temp reaches 105 F, will this make a difference?
Did u ever get an answer to this?
We have not a thermal camera and also not tested. But i recommend. For instance our windows 2 layer of glass. It's have one gap of air. After applying this film we have 3 layer and additional larger air gap. This air gap insulate the outer and inner temperature.
What provides the insulation is the air in the gap between the film and the glass. It works like a double pane window.
Before applying this film we had problem with the Window Condensation every morning in the winter. We had to wipe moisture with towel. But now we didn't notice the Window Condensation. So it's works definitely. Because the film doesn't cold easly as glass. If you touch the film you can feel warmth in the winter. Like winter season, you can feel less hot in the summer.
@@ivojara Yes. After applying film, I can called our windows now 3 pane window.
hey what’s the song?
Darude - Sandstorm
could not do it because i dont that spoon with me :/
When I use the blow dryer the film comes off from the sides at the very end. It gets too tight and then starts pulling on the sides and comes off. It destroys the tape and i have to start all over again. SO fuking frustrating
does the spoon come in the package
My cat will destroy this as soon as I finish 😔
And it will do it just for fun !!!
Our windows leak air from all places- needing to run the tape and plastic all around the window trim boards, header and sill. Never seen just doing around the glass window frame. ( At least the window remains functional this way...)
Thank you for answering my question haha! Came here to see if it kept the window functional lol
if i want to remove the film at a later date can this be done easily?
Yes - it peels away from the double-sided tape easily.
@@Redberryfarm888 and how about the double-side tape? can it also be easily removed?
@@xanamoth1769 yes... but I have found that it also can (usually) pull up paint or varnish of the window trim, depending on where it is put on. ( Try around the outside edge of window trim next to the wall...) Leaving it in place to try and reuse again doesn't stick as well, plus gets gummy during the hotter summer months. For me, my curtains cover our window trim that looks a bit ratty from the years of using tape on it, but it is SO worth having the warmth and no condensation/rotting windows during the snow season, hands down.
@@Redberryfarm888 thanks for answer. I am wondering for how long term people are using this stuff? You won't be able to wash windows because of this thing, right?
@@xanamoth1769 I use it just for the winter, and no... I don't wash the window. (no need to...no dust, etc.) The windows get washed inside and out in the spring when I take off the plastic and put in the screens again. I try to be careful removing, and usually get a few years of use out of the plastic. What I go through is the double stick tape.
The film is so thin its really hard to cut nicely.
I have the kit.. haven't put it on yet, it seems like a load of shite to be honest. I seen clear plastic wrap in some hardware shop last winter it was thicker and just went on like window tint. The video was good. Simple to follow no bullshit
It's not the thickness of the film but the pocket of air in between that stops thermal leak, I thought the same thing but it works amazing, especially for the price.
Koreans developed this window insulation idea more and made a special bubble wrap product named “window insulation bubble wrap.” Fortunately, now you can get this amazing bubble wrap from Amazon. On Amazon, simple try "window insulation bubble wrap Korean style." It costs only 84.95$ for 39.4“ X 100ft and includes a free water sprayer. Remember this bubble wrap film is reusable and anybody can install it without tools.
Ha ha you can do this with any bubble wrap.
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I really like the way you made this video. It's super simple and quick, yet very informative and easy to understand..Thank you very much!!
If you use it for windows you will not be able to use your blinds
Cut a small hole in the plastic just small enough for the rod to the blinds to extend through and use.