NDR need your help with calculations and Mathematics

[Todd Duncan Tennyson]

Guys, I am ok at photography and writing stories, but i royally suck at mathematics and Geometry. I figured that a bunch of boat builders would be pretty skilled at this sort of thing so I am asking for your help.

I am in So or for the last 9 months watching over my elderly mother, and she lives in my boyhood home still. The windows are 55 years old aluminum framed and rattle pretty good when the wind blows, we are losing a lot of heat and I want to put some inside transparent film between the curtains and the glass.

The wooden frames around the windows are 74 by 38 inches. nobody makes this sized films ready to go.

I thought about getting somethat i could overlap to fit perfectly somehow in the 74/38 config using multiple smaller window films, so that i wouldn't have to attach the adhesive velcro strpping to the wallpaper on the walls next to the window frame. Here are my choices : I do not want to stick the velcrow adhesive to the interior wallpapered walls in the house, but I. can stick them anywhere i want on the window frame.

Options for window fittings. choices and measurements: How would you figure this?

Thanks you for any and all assistance.



On a waterfowl related note, that bomb cyclone has moved More geese into the Rogue valley than I have ever seen in 55 Years combined.

 

[Eric Patterson]

Link is doesn't work for me, but it could just be blocked at work.

 

[Jeff Reardon]

Out here there is a local community-based non profit that does inserts out of pine and plastic film. You may be able to contact them for their training materials or designs. Local volunteers get trained to measure windows and crank out the inserts. They for free or low cost to low-income folks, and selling them at market rate to those who can afford them helps subsidize the materials costs. Good program. https://windowdressers.org/

 

[Huntindave McCann]

The wooden frames around the windows are 74 by 38 inches. nobody makes this sized films ready to go.

Don't over think it. Just purchase a bulk roll of self adhesive hook and loop tape, and a bulk roll of window film. Cut and apply the hook and loop tape to the frames. Apply the window film to the previously applied hook and loop, trim as required.

Each 74 by 38 frame will require 18'8" of hook-n-loop tape, or just figure 20 foot per frame. One inch by 30 foot rolls are quite common. Two rolls will net you 60 feet of hook-n-loop, enough for three frames. https://www.amazon.com/Strips-Adhes...p_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9zZWFyY2hfdGhlbWF0aWM

Window film just a couple available options;
(A) frost king 62" X 25' film = nets enough material for 3 windows https://www.amazon.com/Thermwell-V8425-Shrink-Wind-Window/dp/B000L9OKCY/ref=sr_1_7?sr=8-7

(B) thermwell 84" X 25' film = nets enough material for 7 windows https://www.amazon.com/Thermwell-V8425-Shrink-Wind-Window/dp/B000AXXD7O/ref=sr_1_7?sr=8-7

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I'm sure there are many more options in which you can cut to fit your exact size window frames.

 

[Dani]

I would do like what Dave said....just get a big roll and cut to whatever size you need.

 

[Geoff Pike]

In the past for odd sized windows I have gotten patio door kits and cut them to size.

 

[Linhardt]

Quick question for all you using plastic film gurus... My windows are the original 1959 single pane wood windows and I have been using the plastic film you by at Lowes, Menards, etc. But for the last 20 years, I just do the normal double sided tape route and throw them away each year of use.

So my question is if you go the DIY hook and loop tape route like Dave McCann suggested once you shrink it and the winter season is over isn't the film pretty much done with and may not fit totally correct the next season if you re-apply it?

I never thought about reusing the film or even trying hook and loop tape. I have thought about building wood frames for my windows. I barely have about 3/4" of flat surface around the inside of the window for installation of the frames. But there is my pull down shades that are also installed at the top of the windows in that 3/4" flat space. But this thread also kind of gave me the idea of maybe installing the frames to the face side of the window frame with hook and loop tape.

Maybe one of these days I will get new windows. Reason I never did before now was because of all the other expenses throughout the years, like roof, sewer, plumbing, electrical, basement remodel, and other emergency issues that popped up. But the cost savings of new windows did not really add up to get my moneys worth over the years. I live in Missouri and as long as I put up plastic each winter, and keep shades somewhat lowered on the west side of the house during summer, I did not have much for energy bills. I estimated that I might only save $10 - $20 in gas/electric a month. That would take me a very long time to recoup my investment. Or at least that is what I was thinking.