Stick with me as I show you three
inexpensive tricks that will help with
your heating bills. I recently moved into
a place that has very poor insulation so
I'm doing everything I can to warm it up
and in New Hampshire can get pretty cold
i used to put plastic sheets over
windows when I lived in west virginia
but actually found something that works
a little better and surprisingly cheap
to free. I found it over at this guy's
youtube channel I'm kind of a fanboy his
is called a Missouri wind and solar this
guy shows you how to save money on
everything, so I tried one of his ideas
it worked really well what you do is you
take the bubble wrap and make sure you
get the ones with the big bubbles not
the little bubbles, and you get a spray
bottle and you just simply spray the
window and then put the bubble wrap on
it.
This creates a lot more r-value right on
the window.
You need the large bubbles not the small
bubbles now if you get a lot of packages
you might have enough free scraps to do
this but probably not for the whole
house the what i did is i just spent
twenty dollars and bought this enormous
roll on amazon. So it'll be more than you
need.
i will link that for you so you don't
have to hunt around find it. It's
probably the best deal I found. If
you want i guess you can put a plastic
sheet over all that if you wanted to
make it even better but surprisingly the
bubbles work really good let me show you
what that looks like.
I'm not quite finished this house yet
so i started to paint this but you get
the idea of the what bubble-wrap looks like
it is great because it lets light in so
the plants can grow good and I think it
does better than the regular plastic
wrap if you look at it in the daytime it
kind of creates a cool mosaic affected
almost looks like a fancy window
and all you can really do is see kinda
like a silhouette of a person you know
someone's in front of it but you can't
really tell who it is or what. It's
almost like a frosted glass
here's what it looks like from the
outside you can kind of see the kitchen
and get a little better idea but you can
tell someone's gonna walk by but that's
it
see there's Kate walking by and you
can't really even see anything you just
kind of see a silhouette. You
definitely have privacy it's great if
you have a view you'd like to maintain
but still have some privacy
you just leave the very tops of the
windows open that's what we do so nobody
can really like see you changing clothes
or anything
you still look out and see the snow and
everything the heat works pretty good
with the window three-fourths done so
just leave the top 4th open. I even have
them done on half windows
I like to look at this one and see the
birds eating on the ground you can see
the top part of the windows done but I
can still see out and you know half one
is better no window can't put clear
plastic over this part if you wanted and
probably work well or you can even
double up like I said you can put
plastic over plastic for ultimate
r-value. Over on his channel which by the
way i'll just link to his channel so you
can learn how to build this stuff and
see some of the cool ideas over there
he also has a heat recovery device for
electric dryers. I've got this
electric dryer
although this device isn't very pretty
i'm sure I could paint it and pretty it
up. It looks a lot better on his channel
I ran out of supplies and had to use
metal tape but the idea is you are using
all this heat to dry something and most
people's vented outside so the summer I
get it but in the winter
man I'd like to have that heat in my
house. If you have an electric dryer don't
do this with a gas one you can build
these devices which is basically like a
water bucket that catches the lint and
then lets the hot moisture out all over
the house.
this is our old school dryer we've done
here is take the exhaust and put it into
a five-gallon bucket of water now you
want to have vent holes and I used metal
tape to attach this but there's much
prettier ways to do this honestly. This
is a kind of the ghetto version down
dirty, but what happens is when you open
it you'll see that all the lint
collection in the water and then you
throw out the water.
What happens is this hot air comes out
of the vent and goes into the house and
the hot air plus the moisture makes the
heat last a really long time. It's a
great thing to do in the winter if you
have an electric dryer do not do this we
have a gastar the gas fumes will
poison you.
Moisture is really important in the
winter a lot of people don't realize
that moisture can help their heating
bills. What happens is if your house is
very dry, say you're running electric heat
and the house dries out, the air doesn't
have much moisture and it loses heat
very quickly but there's a little water
droplets all over the house
those water droplets actually heat up
and maintain and release heat so
humidity will keep you from spending
well basically keep your furnace from
working so hard. You can either get a
humidifier that blows into the air you
can use this dryer trick because it does
put some moisture in the air for an
entire day. Anyway I thought i'd share
these tips because I do love saving
money and I hope that you'll try some of
these. Please leave some comments
below I'd love to hear what you think or
if you have some cool ideas on how to
save some money.
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