If you're in the UK right now, you've probably noticed the weather. One of the difficulties with reducing our energy use is that when it gets cold, we want heat - lots of it. I live in a late 1920s semi-detached house; a previous owner put in double-glazing in some windows, but not all of them. And it makes a difference, but it is expensive.
Fortunately, there's a much cheaper way. I bought 'Window seal', which is a thin plastic film a bit like cling-film. You cut a sheet to size, stick double-sided sticky tape around the window, and then put the film over it. All you have to do then is take a hair-dryer to the film - this makes it shrink, so that any wrinkles in it can't be seen.
The cost - £14.00 for 12 square metres; and it comes with double-sided sticky tape. I bought mine from Headington Homeware; Window Seal itself is marketed by OracStar (the box has their postcode - NN4 7HS - but no website.
The key point about this stuff is that it cuts down on draughts, as well as trapping a layer of insulating air between the two surfaces.
Oh, it's really snowing now.
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