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| Thread ID: 146358 | 2018-07-12 06:32:00 | We Always Close Our Blinds and Curtains in the Winter Months | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1451474 | 2018-07-12 06:32:00 | In the winter months we always close our blinds and curtains to keep the warm in and the cold out. We have noticed that the temperature cools down very slowly when closed up (about 5.30) and when we finally need to turn on the heat pump we take it up to about 20C - then turn it off - where it will usually stay thereabouts until it is time to go to bed at about 10 when we snuggle down with our electric blankets. Lovely! I can't understand these people who don't close up at night - all around us. All the heat will be going straight out the windows so their heater will be working hard to heat up their place. Surely that must be more expensive? Any way to save money must be a good thing. What do you think? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1451475 | 2018-07-12 06:39:00 | Yup, as soon as the sun is below the horizon we are usually shutting ours. We do have double glazing but it certainly still helps keep some warmth in. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1451476 | 2018-07-12 08:19:00 | Americans never close their curtains at night - check out any Hollywood TV show if you don't believe me. And with all the those vicious perverts that they show looking in the windows, is it any wonder that they have a higher murder rate than we do?? |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1451477 | 2018-07-12 09:47:00 | unfortunately some people have got it into their heads that because they have double glazing they do not need curtains. which of course is not true. even double glazing is still lousy at keeping heat in (r value of about 0.4 i think). edit: windows r value about 0.58 at best. nz standard is 0.26 which most new homes would have. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1451478 | 2018-07-12 10:56:00 | Same here, as soon as the sun goes down we usually close the curtains, helps keep any warmth in. The opposite also happens, in summer we have to close the side curtains, when the sun gets around on the large windows, middle of the afternoon, the room turns into a hot house. Anyways, who wants some weird buggers looking inside your house at night with the lights on, curtains open. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1451479 | 2018-07-12 12:06:00 | Close mine too. I got double glazing with tinted glass and got rid of my net curtains because I don't like them. Turns out the net curtains add a bit of extra insulation, Seems unlikely I know but it's about the air between the glass and the curtains not the material of the nets themselves. One of my pet peeves is the trend to take form over function, put pelmets back on your windows like the old days and use floor length curtains on all windows and your insulation improves quite a bit. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1451480 | 2018-07-12 13:44:00 | Americans never close their curtains at night - check out any Hollywood TV show if you don't believe me. And with all the those vicious perverts that they show looking in the windows, is it any wonder that they have a higher murder rate than we do?? They actually have exactly the same murder rate as us :- Once per victim. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1451481 | 2018-07-12 20:38:00 | I have to wonder at the TV advertisement for heat pumps where a child is saying "Mum, I am so cold". Then they show the family sitting around in summer clothing and praising the heat pump. SWMBO and I are in Tauranga at present staying with my sister and brother in law at the Greenwood Retirement Village. They close all the curtains up, as we do at home then power up the heat pump and slowly cook us cooler climate folk. It gets so uncomfortable that I, sitting without a jersey or jacket on have to go to bed in a much cooler room and have a read at 7pm. Bloody awful. Thank heavens we are going home tomorrow. Mind you, I will be glad to leave Tauranga or little Auckland as the imports call it. To much traffic on the roads for us 'lil old Napier folk!! Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1451482 | 2018-07-12 21:04:00 | We close just as sun is disappearing. Knew a farm lady who got double glazing, had a wood burner then got a wall (electric) heater as well, just so she could walk round in a tshirt with no curtains.... Wasteful.... |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1451483 | 2018-07-12 22:43:00 | I have to wonder at the TV advertisement for heat pumps where a child is saying "Mum, I am so cold". Then they show the family sitting around in summer clothing and praising the heat pump. SWMBO and I are in Tauranga at present staying with my sister and brother in law at the Greenwood Retirement Village. They close all the curtains up, as we do at home then power up the heat pump and slowly cook us cooler climate folk. It gets so uncomfortable that I, sitting without a jersey or jacket on have to go to bed in a much cooler room and have a read at 7pm. Bloody awful. Thank heavens we are going home tomorrow. Mind you, I will be glad to leave Tauranga or little Auckland as the imports call it. To much traffic on the roads for us 'lil old Napier folk!! Ken Haven't you been out to Havelock from Hastings recently Ken? With all the road works around St Georges Rd/Crosses Rd it's as bad as Auckland! |
Neil McC (178) | ||
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