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Ooh, ooh, pick me!? I know! My Dad did this.?? There should also be some 
double side tape.?? If not, go get some.?? You attach the cardboard strips to 
the window frame (my did did it on the outside, although he didn't use 
cardboard, but thin wood strips)), and then use the double sided tape to 
attach the plastic to the strips, sealing the window (plastic should be 
fairly taught).?? Then you use a hairdryer to shrink the plastic snug.? Come 
spring, you tear the plastic off, and remove the cardboard.

Later, he would actually use the strips, and tack the plastic directly to the 
frame.? No tape that way.

I am planning on doing this next week.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:37 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Interior window plastic



I think things like that...I think sometimes a blow dryer (like for  
hair) is used to shrink the plastic to fit. Like Shrinkie Dinks, only  
a hair dryer instead of a lightbulb.

Maybe?


On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:08 AM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Back when my grandfather died, I got a whole bunch of his "junk".  He
> had really good junk.<g> Anyway, one of the things I got was a package
> of plastic sheets that cover the interior of windows. The package  
> was so
> old(my guess is maybe 20 years old) that the instructions could not be
> read.  The plastic sheets are slightly larger than my windows(perfect)
> and it looks like it would work great, IF I can figure out what I am
> doing.  I feel really BLONDE right now.
> In the package with the sheets were cardboard strips.  Each sheet came
> with a piece of cardboard that had been cut into strips.  I have no  
> idea
> of what to do with these strips...it's just thin cardboard..I would be
> tempted to say it was just packaging support, but then each sheet was
> encasing a sheet of strips.  Nothing else was in the package.
> I've heard of kits like this that are shrinked to the window.  I  
> have no
> idea if this is what I have, or even how I would do that.
> Can anyone give me a clue on possible instructions?
> I can tape the sheets to the window frame, but I feel like I am  
> missing
> something.
>
> Bev
> -- 
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