It is cheap and effective insulation. It goes up anywhere, with just a flick of a staplegun.
I have windows which are made of very thin glass. Sometimes they break or crack, or the caulking around them falls loose (my house is old). I used to put temporary cardboard in the place of the broken windowpanes, but I've discovered that plastic bubblewrap...mine has bubbles that are about three to the inch... works even better, and lets the light in, too. Plus I don't have to see the tourists walking down my street or my neighbors anymore...I've put two layers on the windows. Can't feel the cold through the windows, anymore!
The Christmas Tree is a fake one this year (the kids insisted on a fake one...where have I gone wrong?!)..I manipulated the branches to flatten the back and put it up against a window that has two if it's panes missing, and just covered with bubblewrap. This tree has icicles hanging on the branches, plastic skinny ones...and NOT ON OF THEM FLUTTERS IN A BREEZE!
I have a little bench-type of seat against one wall. It was forever giving me trouble with dampness on the bolster pillows that leaned on the wall...to the extent of trashing the fabric of them (there's saltpeter in the walls here, it creeps up to about a meter high and bubbles out of the walls). So I stapled up a back of bubblewrap, and VOILA! No damp on the cushions and more comfortable, too. I toy with the idea of doing all the walls in this rock house, but maybe the house has to breathe.
This is an open-plan house (it wasn't meant to be, but I tore down all the walls and never got around to putting them back up), and there are two sets of staircases that go all the way up to the top floor. Heat rises and cold sinks...bubblewrap works nicely as room and level dividers, too. Maybe I'll use it as attic insulation one day...at less than .50 cents a square meter, it'll be cheaper than the aluminum-backed bubblewrap insulation sold at the do-it-yourself shop.
It helps deaden sound a bit, too, on the windows...I can still hear the outside, but it's muffled. I'm wondering if it could be helpful to safety-pin a sheet of it behind curtains?
I staple it on bubble-side out, leaving me with the smooth edge inwards...mosty as a deterrent to the kids wanting to pop the bubbles. I've only recently done it, against the cold...but I imagine that it'll help against the heat of the summer, as well.
Later in the year, when we go up into the Pyrennees to play in the snow, I'll put my feet into a bag of bubblewrap, between socks and boots, and have warm and waterproof toes.
Anyone else use this magic stuff or have ideas for it?
I have windows which are made of very thin glass. Sometimes they break or crack, or the caulking around them falls loose (my house is old). I used to put temporary cardboard in the place of the broken windowpanes, but I've discovered that plastic bubblewrap...mine has bubbles that are about three to the inch... works even better, and lets the light in, too. Plus I don't have to see the tourists walking down my street or my neighbors anymore...I've put two layers on the windows. Can't feel the cold through the windows, anymore!
The Christmas Tree is a fake one this year (the kids insisted on a fake one...where have I gone wrong?!)..I manipulated the branches to flatten the back and put it up against a window that has two if it's panes missing, and just covered with bubblewrap. This tree has icicles hanging on the branches, plastic skinny ones...and NOT ON OF THEM FLUTTERS IN A BREEZE!
I have a little bench-type of seat against one wall. It was forever giving me trouble with dampness on the bolster pillows that leaned on the wall...to the extent of trashing the fabric of them (there's saltpeter in the walls here, it creeps up to about a meter high and bubbles out of the walls). So I stapled up a back of bubblewrap, and VOILA! No damp on the cushions and more comfortable, too. I toy with the idea of doing all the walls in this rock house, but maybe the house has to breathe.
This is an open-plan house (it wasn't meant to be, but I tore down all the walls and never got around to putting them back up), and there are two sets of staircases that go all the way up to the top floor. Heat rises and cold sinks...bubblewrap works nicely as room and level dividers, too. Maybe I'll use it as attic insulation one day...at less than .50 cents a square meter, it'll be cheaper than the aluminum-backed bubblewrap insulation sold at the do-it-yourself shop.
It helps deaden sound a bit, too, on the windows...I can still hear the outside, but it's muffled. I'm wondering if it could be helpful to safety-pin a sheet of it behind curtains?
I staple it on bubble-side out, leaving me with the smooth edge inwards...mosty as a deterrent to the kids wanting to pop the bubbles. I've only recently done it, against the cold...but I imagine that it'll help against the heat of the summer, as well.
Later in the year, when we go up into the Pyrennees to play in the snow, I'll put my feet into a bag of bubblewrap, between socks and boots, and have warm and waterproof toes.
Anyone else use this magic stuff or have ideas for it?
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