How to Use the Sun From Your Windows to Heat Your Home
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Heat your home by utilizing the sun that comes in your windows. If you don't have alot of money to weatherize your windows and to heat your home these handy window insulating tips are for you. Watch our featured video: Best DIY Home Heating: Cheap, Easy for easy affordable ways to heat your home with the sun. Best buys on thermal window and door coverings.
Heating Your Home With Sun From Your Windows Tips
Open South facing window curtains during the day and let the sun in to warm your home and close the shades right before sunset to keep the heat in. Keep North facing window curtains closed duringthe winter.
Use shades or make a shade for your windows with bubble wrap insulation
Use curtain layering by putting up two sets of curtains-one as a liner and a heavy vinyl backed curtain as the outer curtain
Use canopy or cornice over the top of windows to reduce drafts
Make sure curtains are as close to your windows as possible
Use weather stripping or caulk to seal air leaks and cracks around windows
Use shades or make a shade for your windows with bubble wrap insulation
Use curtain layering by putting up two sets of curtains-one as a liner and a heavy vinyl backed curtain as the outer curtain
Use canopy or cornice over the top of windows to reduce drafts
Make sure curtains are as close to your windows as possible
Use weather stripping or caulk to seal air leaks and cracks around windows
Featured Video: Best DIY Home Heating: Cheap,Easy
"Wendy Tremayne shows how easy it is to open and close curtains for passive solar heating. Her home heating bill has never exceeded $45 for a 1,100 square foot uninsulated trailer. The night time temperature that this film was made was down to 6F with windchill and day time high was only 36 degrees F. No heating was required during the day and the home heating unit only kicked on 3 times for 15 minute runs during the night to maintain a stable 60 degrees F indoor temperature".
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References: 1. Video: Best DIY Home Heating: Cheap,Easy. (Jan. 13, 2013). The good life lab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1XxixvcKh0