tin foil on windows to reflect summer sun. (WORKS)
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2015
- reflect the heat of the sun with tin foil. I used cardboard cutouts of my window to stick the tin foil on, so i can remove it when i want. I only did half my front windows because i still wanted to let the sun in. I can now sleep in a room that's not hot from the summer sun :)
Historical note--this type of thing was originally done by photographers, maybe a half century ago, to create a darkroom for developing film. Maybe they noticed their darkroom was cooler than the rest of the building.
haha i did mine all ghettofied no cardboard i didnt have any at the time but hey my room is cool.
***** hope it worked for u
Totally. As long as you measure close enough and tape it would be fine. That foil or tin foil should reflect the sun and heat wave so less pass and the rest bounces off.
JUST BOUGHT REFLECTIX FROM LOWE'S AND MY TEMPERATURE DROP 15 DEGREES IT'S ICE COLD IN HERE NOW. LOL THANK YOU
2:07 The cat comes to help. Good job.
I never thought of doing this with cardboard even though I have a bunch in my shed. Thanks
I know it sounds stupid to look up such a video but thanks so much! Your video was just about the only one that popped up on my search. I was having a hard time without the cardboard but your idea is going to save me a headache again! Plus I can re-use these next hot summer! :)
Exactly! it's nice to be able to take it off in the winter and put it back up in the summer, plus tin foil is EXPENSIVE. THANKS :D Glad you found the video.
Serina Healey get reflectix at the hardware store. . $7 a roll covers 3 or more windows
Just done this as i can't stand the sun blasting in my room , wonderful results
:D
Been doing that for years .. easiest way is just wet the windows with a sponge and stick the tinfoil onto the windows
Thanks for the tip. I used a spray bottle though, worked super efficient
but then you gotta take all the foil off after summer you fartal
Does it stay on through the winter with the water sticking?
Hal Kits depends on your diet. If you eat a lot of shrimp the cartilage from the shrimp would actually reflect the heat onto the room. Short answer, no poop won’t work efficiently
robert hingston this is what I needed thanks
This was exactly what i was thinking of trying! Glad to see you tried it and it worked!
This had just saved us from 40 degree heat in the UK. Yes it was still hot but I can't imagine how bad we'd have been without it 🥵
😉 yay!
Yep one of those strange youtube videos, but you came here to help, so thats ok.
“They both look pretty f$&@ing shiny to me” 😂
Your kitty came to help how precious. Kitty kitty sweet
JUST BOUGHT REFLECTIX FROM LOWE'S AND MY TEMPERATURE DROP 15 DEGREES IT'S ICE COLD IN HERE NOW. LOL THANK YOU
Awesome!
@@DarkDarkPrincess it really does, I be in my house shaking like a crackhead it be so cold and I live in Las Vegas nevada😂😂😂😂
@@onesicinfi did you dp the hole house or just the bedrooms? Do you still recommend this 1 yr later? My electricity rates are going up so I am trying tin foil for now
Who’s here for the PAC NW heat wave 2021😩 111 degrees with NO AC!
Me! It’s till 90 in Olympia and I’m dying
@@jacqueofallgames I’m in Lakewood and it was 99! This helped a lot with cooling off our back bedroom which gets all of the late afternoon sun. Stay safe!
Seattle & dying! 🥴 Gonna try this tomorrow even tho it’s supposed to cool down.
this summer is gonna be hotter , humidity at over 80% 2 days ago .
R.I.P to the blinded drivers!
"They both look pretty fucking shiny to me." Lmfao
Eating Breyers ice cream while watching this🙌
If the window is in direct sun light will the house catch on fire?
Pretty genius
Could you use or adapt this method to attract heat into your home thanks in advance 👍
thanks for the video. I shall try this soon!
About to try this
Going to bed & done this trick whislt dark so hoping the rooms cooler & less risk of a heat stroke
Give us an update on your results please
You can also lightly spary Windex on the window and the tinfoil will stick to it.
I've found an added bonus after covering my own windows with foil: my neighbors began to think i was some type of crazy, paranoid, Howard Hughes isolationist that insisted on being left alone (presumably on pain of death?!). So, as a result, I am now completely left alone! No more "can I borrow your tools?"/"you need to do more weeding &/or mowing"/ and the best yet!: no more complaining about late (7 to 9 PM) evening band (sludgy, doom metal) rehearsals!!!
Hi, I'm a abductee from Rosswell. I was wondering if this helps block the chip they probed me with .
Negative, it will do the opposite.
No it will intensify their signal. They will use it to find you again and kidnap you
Where did you buy/get such thin cardboard?
+rselwyn1000 I found it at Costco. I think it was from the toilet paper or paper towels pallets.
Do we have to have the carboard or can I put the foil by itself on the windows
+Iyanna Garay Of course you can just tape the foil in the windows. I wanted to be able to take it off and on, with out using new foil every time.
i’m googling to see if this works and came across your video.. it’s literally going to be 102-105 degrees for like six days here in my part of texas i hate it here 😔
Yep 106 on sunday 😡😠
JUST BOUGHT REFLECTIX FROM LOWE'S AND MY TEMPERATURE DROP 15 DEGREES IT'S ICE COLD IN HERE NOW. LOL THANK YOU
@@dmon3331 115 degrees on Thursday here in Phoenix Arizona
Did it work?
Everyone on the street must hate you because of having to deal with that powerful reflection. It hurts my eyes just thinking about it.
Yeah, Imagine if you had covered the bottom half too...
THIS WORKS SO WELL
I still use them every summer.
Doing something similar on a hot day cracked my HR++ window due to heat buildup
It would be much more thermally efficient if put the aluminum foil on the outside of your window instead of inside, and peel it off come fall.
My apt is on the third floor, wish I could put some outside. I’m just have to place it inside.
I’ve always just tape my str8 to the window Lmaoo
And it works fine?
César López don’t you hate it when they don’t reply
@@CesarLopez-xm7in I'm new'ish to this, my 2nd year trying it, but I've done the Foil taped straight to the window and I always thought it helped the interior of the room feel cooler, but the window itself gets quite warm. Because of this, I started to wonder how much was I saving, really. Or am I just moving the heat problem closer to the window instead of the floor, bed, couch, etc.
I was doing some research on it some more just today, and I was seeing cardboard more and more in my research and now I'm starting to wonder if the cardboard helps in some way. I know cardboard doesn't transfer heat through it very well, so it's sort of a dampener of heat flow. Where as Aluminum is a reflector (around 95% reflected) of radiant heat only. Aluminum doesn't do much for stopping conductive (through solids) heat transfer, and we all know this if you consider most computer heat sinks are aluminum. So I start to wonder maybe aluminum + cardboard helps as a combo, but I don't know how much the improvement is, yet.
The shiny side must be up against the window
This will not protect you from sniper bullets
matt snoozle it might. They won't be able to get a clear shot.
Nice cat
That's what I noticed too. Good looking kitty.
use thermic blankets they cost only 5 buks and are see trough
My windows face traffic If I do this will it cause a bad reflection for drivers ? I can't take the heat no more
My windows also face the road and I have 0 reflection.
Omg thank you for clearing it up because I was wondering the same thing, because my room faces traffic as well, but ima try it out right now :)
you can get your windows tinted so that it can reflect heat and not cause a reflection, search for DIY home window tint.
but I want the sun to come through in the winter
I used tin foil in my bedroom n it works great
Theres two types of foil, Tin, and Aluminum. Tin Foil, Came first. Later on Aluminum came along and has begun to replace it however people still prefer Tin over Aluminum.
The fun fact for today.
Hammy actually, tin foils are not available nowadays, (because tin is toxic). even if you ask for tin foil, they give aluminium foil.
@@MasterAkaedis so its the same thing ?
I doubt my townhouse HOA will allow this.
So do you put foil inside window or outside window? I hear both?
Reyna Rubio ....IKEA sells black out blinds for 6 dollars.
@@phillipsmom6252 - Blinds have a very small Thermal Reflection Value. Especially cheap ones that aren't designed optimally, or with as optimal of materials. Foil is far better. Or, foil taped to foam insulation boards, or at least a stack of cardboard sheets.
The more pretty stuff is much more expensive, and is also generally far less effective.
If your room is already doing okay as far as the heat goes, then sure.
Outside will be more effective
So shiny side out then ,or non stick inside out.
Shiny side towards the sun
cute
Becareful! i sliced my wrist with foil ouch!!
Jet fuel won't melt steel beams but it would melt aluminum without a doubt
Cool idea I
Brett tolliday vid where he mists water on the window to stick it is much faster.
Why put the shiny side up?
Because the shininess literally reflects the heat away. The heat just bounces off. You can also have the shiny side facing inside, then the heat inside will bounce back in, and not escape out the glass window (which is handy for winter).
Aluminum reflects about 95% of radiant / infrared heat (think like sunrays). So the shinier it is (like a mirror) the better it reflects that kind of heat. Funnily enough, a lot of mirrors are great at reflecting light (visible light), but not great at reflecting infrared / radiant heat ( which is not visible to human eye).
Aluminum is a good conductor of heat (often used for computer heatsinks). This means ambient heat or heat from another object can transfer through aluminum very easily.
So basically Aluminum is great at stopping radiant heat and sucks at stopping conductive heat.
Which brings me to why I'm on this video looking around. I'm trying to see where someone is talking about the improvement gained by using the cardboard backing, but I think I'm looking for something a bit nerdy/scientific, as I'm thinking the cardboard should help to stop the conductive heat transfer into the room right at the window, some.
Something of a recap: you're using the aluminum for it's reflective properties against radiated infra red heat, and using the poorer conductive properties of cardboard to stop or slow the conductive heat passing through the solids of the glass and into the house.
Problem is metal heats up so you have a radiator in the windows. I experienced this when I got those foil sun shades for my car when I used to have white cardboard ones. The foil shade would heat up and all the padding (cardboard like you're using) would become a heat sink and the car is almost as hot as if I had no shade at all. So you want a white cloth surface like blackout curtains or blackout roller shades with a white backing if you want to block out the sun and the heat.
Did it work??
it sure did
DarkDarkPrincess cool
I dunno I tried it in my windows super hot here. I put foil shiny side going out , and I was afraid of a fire starting lol
I know there's a tree right near my foiled window should I be worried???? lol
@@ginamcgraw1679 its highly unlikely foil would start a fire on a tree outside.
I guess this is not an option if the windows are facing a street with traffic?
It should be fine, its not a mirror. I drive up to the windows and doesn't bother me.
Why not? My room faces a main Street too but fuck no I don't care about how it looks to others as long as I'm confortable !
Your "After" is Same like "Before" LoL :D
Don't do this if you have double pane windows. It will blow the seals out and can crack the glass.
wait.. what? how does that happen?
I've done this with double pane windows and hadn't noticed a problem, but I didn't do it to cover the whole window, so I don't know. I'm guessing what happens is the aluminum is reflecting back the 95% or so of radiant heat and it heats up the inner area between the panes so much that it becomes under pressure?
wow you're faster than "Charlie Chaplin" i wish I was that fast.haha
I use foam board and foil
NICE!
That's what I'm going to try. That way I can take them down during the nicer temps and save them to reuse.
Me too. Reconstituted Polystyrene foam boards, coated in, something shiny. There are boards than come with a shiny side, but they're not at my hardware store so yea.
I'm not sure how well just cardboard and foil would do. I know you can stack the cardboard and also have foil on both sides, but the boards are good because they can slide in and out of place, because they're thick, and don't bend at all, so I like that idea. Also you can paint the other side to match the wall colour or a black curtain or whatever.
You can also use car front windscreen shades, but for me that works out to be more expensive than other options.
The 2 windows are huge, so I really wanna make sure they are decently insulated.
What if you have double glazed windows? Would this still help? I have huge windows which are red hot right now in the UK, roughly 6 ft by 6 ft.
I have no idea. it cant hurt to try it
@@DarkDarkPrincess "it cant hurt to try it" If you think $50 out of your wallet doesn't hurt... well my wallet is hurting, so send some money my way!!?
@@ihatesignupsgrrrrrrr just try cardboard then. I think that would help some and you can get it for free
@@DarkDarkPrincess Thanks for the reply. I'd think brown cardboard may work worse to be honest since it is a dark color which absorbs the heat.
Aluminum foil over the cardboard would work at least 100% better and way cheaper(I did find another video claiming this was a super cost-savings way to achieve heat reduction).
@@ihatesignupsgrrrrrrr 🤔 I would still try it first. Cant be that bad. I found those silver emergency blankets but you see people wear on TV and put that on the cardboard. Seems to work good too.
Most weird scream on 0:37
LMFOA! I was struggling, it wouldn't rip.
get reflectix. . $7 a roll. . 2-3 windows
JUST BOUGHT REFLECTIX FROM LOWE'S AND MY TEMPERATURE DROP 15 DEGREES IT'S ICE COLD IN HERE NOW. LOL THANK YOU
Try it out. Let me know how it works for you.
Why does your cat have a skinny neck
Why do you have hair?
Why is you name Johnathan
now how would I go about doing this to bring light into a basement? I dont want to spend 1000$ on solar tubes
did anyone else notice at 2:10 she almost killed that cat and it fell off
😂 😂 😂
That's not tin foil, its aluminum wrap your using.
Ignis King You're*
As long as it reflects the sun then no heat wave should penetrate.
Whats going on in these comments 😂
@@yeahrightmate I love shit
Great work, but since you're a hot babe, you're only trapping the heat in. 😂
I call "BULLSHIT!" My room is much cooler then before.
+DarkDarkPrincess you must be an ice queen! 😉
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That's all I got! :)
lol
thats is not good idea ,because heat transfer by conduction
so u only put it on the top part of your window? Why bother , you gotta do the whole window!!!! Waste of my time
I feel like its gonna make my room hot
Same feelings here 😳
looks tacky
maybe but it works.
I always think meth house when I see foiled windows
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I hope you're 18 because the thoughts I'm having right now
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