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Posted on 27-11-2007
Filed Under (Do It Yourself) by martin

THE PROBLEM

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THE SOLUTION
At your local store buy some of these:

  • 2 rolls of double-sided tape (About 7 € each)
  • 6 to 8 cotton bags from your local supermarket.
  • A ruler (if possible a 50 cm one).
  • A cutter.
  • A good pair of scissors.
  • Foscurit. Foscurit is a gray plastic that does not let in any light (nor any wind)
  • Spray paint. If it matchs the color of your window a lot better!
    OPTIONAL and only for Freaks: Plastic L’s . This is at the end to insulate the angles.

Good, now that you have all the materials you can put Hands At Work:

  1. Cut the cotton in 2 cm vertical lines. Like you can see in this picture:
  2. Put it inside the window horizontal holes
  3. Mount it with the spray painting. From the 2 sides being the most important one the outside one (that where humidity and wind will get inside)
  4. Fix the double-sided tipe on the window borders. This will be later used to mount the plastic foscurit:
  5. Stick the foscurit over the double-sided tape.
  6. The final touch. Touche! If you are a detail freak and you want even more insulation get some L plastic corners (you can get these in Leroy Merlin, I will ask them for comission later…) . You can stick those with silicon in the top and the bottom side of the window with the window closed.

Another video about insulating a window. Mine is much better insulation because reduces a lot more the noise!

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