DIY Foil window panels Keep heat and sun out of your house
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- DIY Foil window panels Keep heat and sun out of your house
We don't have a good working air conditioner in our home so we use 2 window units. They work alright but when it gets so hot and humid out they take extra work to work. Also with minimal shade on my house it can get pretty hot even with the air on. I have some block out curtains but face it those are just as expensive as getting professional things in your home to keep energy costs down.
So my mom said Foil worked. I took cardboard and tinfoil and made window panels to slide in certain windows to keep the heat and sun out to keep rooms cooler and energy costs down on my window units.
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You are the only one who did a video that it sensible because most videos they show people buying the expensive foil. Not everyone has the money to buy expensive. The dollar is what the poor man needs. Thank you keep the good videos coming girl.
Thank you that means a lot. I gotta lunch where needed and sometimes it’s not the high dollar stuff that always works.
Can I use plywood @@GlamMom2Boyz
the foil doesn't really reflect the radiant heat as much as it blocks the sunlight from passing through the glass so it really doesn't matter which side of the foil faces out. it might be slightly better to have the shiny side out but i doubt you could measure any performance improvement. the important thing is to get the foil layer as close to the glass as possible to prevent air heating between the foil and the glass. i did this years ago in an apartment that i lived in that had south facing windows and no air conditioning or exhaust fans, so summers were absolutely brutal.. one thing i did that is optional was to paint the foil white, because in those days if someone covered window glass with foil you were suspected to be running a pot growing operation, but white window coverings were like drapes and drew no attention.
114 degrees today and my bedroom windows are in direct sunlight until sundown. Maybe I'll get a decent night sleep tonight using this tip.
It will help if you have a lot of big windows and/or a small room . No if the heat is coming through the roof. The are aluminum sheets made for interior roof installation.
Thank you for sharing! It is currently 109 degrees here in Northern California. I live in an old apt built with no insulation to protect us from the heat.
Send love and protection
Hello from south of Skwayways aka Vancouver BC! I tried cardboard without foil during our heat dome in June 2021. Then I found some money and bought some blackout blinds and they were okay for the rest of the summer. This year the heat waves were worse than last time. I broke down and bought an AC unit and it is a blessing...until I want to cook or wash clothes! I need to block my windows just like you so that I can shut off the AC and eat or do laundry without steaming up. Thanks for the idea!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO. I SAW OTHER VIDEOS, AND THIS TECHNIQUE CAN BE USED FOR THE WINTER MONTHS👍
We are going to have a heatwave here in Europe next week and I have no air conditioner so I am going to try this. This will surely make it much cooler. A dark room also instantly 'feels' cooler. Thanks for the video. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Yes def wish you best of luck- hear waves are never fun.
I live in the south and this year it seems to be hotter for the month of June i am going to try this to make my house cooler thanks for the post
Welcome it has been overly hot this year in Illinois as well. Our humidity is killing us here
GlamMom2Boyz the minute I got done I could see the difference in how fast the house cooled down I love it and my kids are living it too thanks again for sharing your viedoe with everyone
Very welcome/ I’ve seen other ways to do this and people say well you can see it outside. Oh well is my thoughts- cooler House is more important to me. Very welcome
Good idea but I think the shinny side of the foil is suppose to be facing out. That’s what I read on the internet.
the shiny side is facing out it's against the window
Thankyou for this, In the middle of a heat wave here in Canada with no ac, im hopeing this helps! 🌸🐱
It will.
@8:16 - you want to wrap the interior side in aluminum foil as well. Aluminum foil has low emissivity ( low heat radiation ) but heat from the foil can migrate by conduction (touching the paper board ) and convection ( the curtain/blinds do help @ 9:35 ).
I'm going to try this today. Thanks for the tip
I’ve noticed a difference in my house when I take them down to when I have them up - I say it works
Wow just watching this here in England, wow you made this English guy think where he could get some cardboard for free for his tin foil .....the US post office, they give those away free, I remember from living in West Virginia for 8 years ..... lol
Ya can’t get those here in U.K., everything is hard work here.
I have stockpiled some cardboard though that came with items ordered from Amazon Etc.
But some of it is a little on the heavy side, unlike yours from the post office ....light and easy to use.
It bugs me trying to get items here in the U.K.!
It’s so easy in America!
Some things are easy but at someone else expensive which is tough to deal with
yanks & brits - I totally understand... i worked for a company here in the states that also had a manufacturing division located in county cork, ireland. anytime we sent them a new machine or materials, the workers in the irish factory would fight over the packing materials we crated or boxed up the new equipment or materials in for shipping. we used to buy the cheapest, nastiest-looking plywood and lumber for making shipping crates, the manufacturing manager in ireland sent us photos of his living room in his home that he remodeled using that ugly-looking wood, and he was very proud of it. apparently lumber is very hard to get and very expensive in the uk..
Thank you so much you have given me a great idea. Love the video.
Here in Denmark it's only hot for a month or two out of the year.. But those months are terrible because none of the houses have aircon, heh. I'll try this!
That’s terrible. Heat can mess with your mood so much
Thank you so much for this video! I live in Houston, TX and it is super hot! We have triple digit heat and summer has just begun! 🥵🥵🥵
Thank you!
Big welcome
I. Just moved to a new place the have the tape like u said I may do what you do amen
What a nice video; very helpful and real and unpretentious. Thanks for sharing (:
this is genius!!
I leave them on my windows all summer and my bill as stated in the $100 range
This is what you need: R-Matte Plus-3, 1 in. x 48 in. x 8 ft. R-6.0 ISO Rigid Foam Board Insulation.
Does cardboard not attract the heat and warms up?
thanks for the movie :) ill sure try it out :)
+chantelle venter it worked well for us over the summer and I'll def keep doing it each year.
Nice
I bought Reflectix from lowes. It’s $17/roll but 25’
Do you have to use boxes? Can you just put the foil up by itself? Or is it a fire hazzard?
Yes you can just stick the foil directly onto the windows. It’s just a hassle if you want to let light in sporadically. You would have to tear it down then tape it back up. I had it up all summer then when Fall started I took it down.
Hi! Will it work if I only tape the aluminium foil on the window directly, without using the cardboard?
I don’t need this anymore so I dunno any new updates I built my new house
I don’t understand this reply and the question they asked was obvious lol
Yes you can just tape the foil directly without the cardboard. If you don’t mind the room being dark then it’s perfect but if you constantly want to let light in then use the cardboard for fast on and off option. I personally had the foil directly on the window all summer and took it down in the Fall when the temperatures dropped.
@@tanx2u thank you!
I mean it could I guess
Just curious how this is working out for you 2 yrs later? Did you notice a lower power bill? ?
I built a house so... I dunno it worked for that summer in my rental.
Your kids are precious 🤗❤
Nice :-)
my house looks like a cave its so dark lol
I got 2 space blankets from Amazon, £2.99 .....($3.80)
I have been cutting one up today and putting it behind my radiators.
We have heat from radiators mostly in the U.K., we don’t have central air like you guys.
Radiators are ok but they are always placed on the wall, and No one ever puts foil Etc behind them .....so loads of heat is lost out the wall.
Putting foil behind them reflects the heat back into the room.
I will see what these space blankets are like, but I will also get some Thick aluminium foil and use that on some of the radiators.
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You need to put it on the outside of the window because otherwise the glass can crack
Cardboard helps prevent this and also prevents having to scrape the windows clean later. The foil can leave a deposit on your window pane.
Also advise using heavy duty aluminum foil.
I thought we were looking at keeping the heat down not “ birth control.🤦♀️
Hey use it for birth control keeps teen pregnancy down
Your entry is too long.but good advice
I was literally thinking about using those same boxes since I have those... thanks so much☺
+Melody yeah I have a ton also. Life saver
well done!!!
Thank you. Already prepping the house for this summer
Foam board is what i use
I did this to my window, but I used black spray paint to make it less noticeable, my heat in the living room went down by about 6 degrees
I’ve thought about it and saw what other people did but it’s not the big of a deal to me. This summer my bill is under $100 and that’s the first time ever.
Black spray paint is much less effective because black absorbs the most light and therefor the most heat. Use grey or white spraypaint if you must, but reflective material will catch the least heat. Otherwise the heat from the sun will come through the winddow, hit your black panel will dump the heat into the room as the shortwave light radiation is converted to longwave heat radiation. (if you don't believe me, coat half of your panel with tinfoil, and just feel the difference in the black surface and foil surface of the panel after they have been in the sun a while).
@@CRogers so what should I use? My hoa doesn't allow foiled windows for appearance reasons. .. my room is so hot. We dont run the AC all the time. And this socal heat is awful. I moved here 4 days ago and I'm dying lol
does your hoa allow you to affix shutters on the outside of the house? If so, I recommend it. External shutters provide shade, and all the heat from the sun which is absorbed by the wood will not be transferred into your room. They also allow a nice breeze to pass through to help cool your house when it's breezy: www.ideas4homes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stylish-Dark-Exterior-Window-Shutters-and-Clear-Glass-Windows-near-White-Pillars-and-Green-Plantations-1024x683.jpg
@@CRogers no I can't put shutters on the outside. My landlord wont allow it. Would white thick curtains work better than dark ones?
I think the foil heats up and make windows hotter.
i see where you’re coming from, i don’t know the science but i know a lot of the ones that go in car windows are just like tinfoil
if the window is covered in aluminum foil , most of the heat stays there (aluminum foil has low heat radiation ) and get carry away by the cooler outside air (convection).
You see how its reflective? It reflects the heat!
You can also use white curtains to do this. They are not quite as effective, but they also don't make all your light go away. :)
I’ve always had white curtains. I like the dimmer light has def worked a lot. My summer bills have been down to $100
u can save a lot if you put your aircon at the top because cold air travel down while warm air is up..
Awesome thanks
I know I’d have to find a way to hold it though bc it’s heavy and the window can’t hold it will without the ledge.
No when you had it flexing off the sunlight did it bother any drivers I don’t know if you live near a road or so was it too shiny for them or not or what’s going on
Yeah I did live close to a road and no one ever said anything
The Post Master general is going to come and get you
So simply put tinfoil on a piece of cardboard & let the tinfoil show on the inside for extra ghetto-fied-ness. 👍
Or they think you’re growing weed. But since my bill is under $100 I go no damns what people think when I have extra money in my bank account 🤣
For real best comment ever lol
My hoa doesn't allow this because of appearance reasons. I would have to spray paint it... not sure if it will work
lpt2008lt thick white curtains - not sheer, white doesn’t absorb heat like black does. That’s one to try.
@@GlamMom2Boyz okay, so white is better than a dark color?