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| Thread ID: 89614 | 2008-05-06 03:21:00 | Double Glazing with plastic sheets | Morgenmuffel (187) | PC World Chat |
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| 666382 | 2008-05-06 03:21:00 | Ok this stuff (cea.co.nz) is what I am on about, anyone use it?, how hard is it to install etc Wonder if i could make it myself When I open the drapes here you can feel the temperature drop a few degrees throughout the whole room, so i am wanting something cheap that will let light through but hopefully stop the heat escaping, this stuff looks fairly good and at a price I can afford |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 666383 | 2008-05-06 03:35:00 | There are kits in the US that use mylar with a type of tape to hold it on the frame of the window. You then heat the mylar up with a hot hair dryer and it shrinks a little to become taught and air tight. Any time you encapsulate air, which is a very GOOD insulator, you are creating a good barrier to heat loss or exchange. Yes..they work...some are a little messy and the aren't very strong..not strong enuff to put outside...but inside if you keep urchins off them they will work quite well. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 666384 | 2008-05-06 08:27:00 | Yes, I know about that, it is poor mans double glazing! I laughed when my daughter in WV told me they were going to "shrink wrap" the house! Apparently it does help and they do it every Winter. | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 666385 | 2008-05-06 10:45:00 | I know someone who used this exact product. It had an effect of a couple of degrees but it didn't look the best. Yes they went through the correct process and everything was perfectly flat, but you could tell there was something over the windows and from memory it had a blue tinge to it. And if you don't do it to every window in the room then there is little point in doing it at all. | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 666386 | 2008-05-06 22:05:00 | When I open the drapes here you can feel the temperature drop a few degrees throughout the whole room Then keep them closed. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 666387 | 2008-05-06 23:17:00 | I first ran across double glazing in the 1950s in Europe where those using it (nearly everybody) made the point that you must be able to separate the panes as dirt & flies etc will get in no matter what you do. Where I was the panes were on hinges - made it easy. In New Zealand in the late 1970s I ignored the advice and had permanent double glazing installed on 2 windows. Amazingly it was not long before flies (extremely tiny) appeared between the panes. I had to have them professionally fixed eventually and resealed. Still didn't keep the perishers out. But these windows were sealed on our premises - not in a factory which obviously would be better. However I know of a case where a proper sealed window has cloudy moisture in it. No way to fix it and it is apparently too bad now to be able to look through. Then I heard of the plastic film. Not the ones under discussion but a professionally installed system using magnetic tape and aluminium surrounds. Unfortunately I seem to have lost the address but googling should find them. The big advantage is that if ever the windows do need a clean or flies get in then the inner frames can be removed in seconds. Then just as easily put back - the magnetic strip holding it firmly. They have been up for some years now. Nobody has ever guessed that we have double glazing so the view is not affected to any degree - there has been no noticeable degredation and there is absolutely no doubt about the effectiveness on heat retention and noise reduction. OK it is not as efficient as factory produced units but is a darn sight cheaper and was able to be installed over the existing windows. Not only that but there has been absolutely no sign of any flies etc. I do have just the slightest sign of some moisture in one window so I can peel it off slightly given a warm day and it will vanish. So much better than the other "sealed unit" we paid for. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 666388 | 2008-05-07 00:12:00 | Who needs insulation? This is NZ, if you insulated you'd lose all moaning and hardman rights. When people are complaining about how cold it was last night, what are you going to be able to contribute? It's un-New-Zealand-er, and downright antisocial. And think of all the money that transpower would lose. You don't want that on your conscience. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 666389 | 2008-05-07 00:36:00 | I have found the address of the firm that did our double glazing I mentioned before. It is Magic Seal 355 0656 in the Christchurch Area. I see that they also have an 08 number 0800 10 44 66 Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 666390 | 2008-05-07 05:08:00 | What did the magnetic strip stick to? | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 666391 | 2008-05-07 06:52:00 | Either aluminium window surrounds or they install an aluminuim strip. I looked them up this afternoon, bloody good idea. http://www.magicseal.com/ |
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