How To Install A Window Insulation Kit - Ace Hardware

Watch as Ace's Home Expert, Lou Manfredini, shows you how to install a window insulation kit.

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Window Insulation Kit

Hair Dryer

[bonjovirocks]

This is awesome!! Thanks Ace!!! For anyone who is a novice like me, I wrote out his instructions:
1. Lock windows
2. Determine if draft is coming between window and fixture. If so, measure film to cover against outside of window on wall vs inside the fixture
3. Make sure film size will fit inside the window & where it will be sealed
4. Clean taping area with window cleaner
5. Picture frame double sided tape along window frame area to cover for entire border of the window
6. Remove double sided tape film
7. Line up plastic to window, sealing top corner, bottom corner so plastic stays in tact while finishing to cover the the entire window. If plastic sticks to tape in wrong areas, it can be removed as long as you didn’t press to seal it in that spot.
8. Make sure the plastic is taut but doesn’t have to be super tight as hair dryer will do that. Press down on plastic onto tape all around the window frame.
9. Hair dryer setting on low, warm, not hot. Start in one corner and have hair dryer 6”-8” from plastic. Dry window down one side & up to adhere plastic where it will be tight on window, until it’s clear. Be sure to press the double sided tape firmly before and after application and move the blow-dryer down as if your drawing a slant.
10. Cut off any remaining plastic around window.

[Ogrilla]

Straight to the point . Very helpful video. Just bought my first house and trying to keep everyone warm this winter.

[jlgrabowski]

I would like to see how it looks after the hair dryer step. I've never done this before. Thanks!

[manimal.youtubeyoutubee]

This is one of the best how-to’s I’ve seen in a while. This video just made me happy. Thank you!

[sylviarosario]

Straight to the point. Great video. Thanks for sharing

[Lou_Mansfield]

From one Lou to another, thanks man very thorough and helpful video.

[ginamarriaga]

Will this stop condensation/mould? how will it work if I want to open the windows to get some air in the house when I’m cooking? I live in an open plan kitchen flat so I get a lot of condensation in the living room/kitchen area and I’m constantly having to get rid of mould around the windows

[grotesquecat]

My window has no trim just drywall on the sides, do i tape it on the window directly?

[HotChainz]

Does the tape leave residue on the window trim after being removed?

[brucecollis]

How do you remove residue from the tape, how do you get the tape off?

[robertrose]

A couple of issues with this one:

What happens when you need to take it down the next Spring? Then, put it back up the next winter?

[SlimDanTheBoss]

I applied a window film to all the windows in my house due to every window in my house getting super frosty.

I did have one old-ish single-pane window on an exterior door shatter the day of applying a window film. Very odd since there was no warning of this happening.

I also cannot find any information about this happeneing to anybody else. Is this something i should be worried about with my other windows? They are a lot newer with dual pane glass.

[onyxsafira]

Ty . Q: do I put the tape on the Window Glas Frame or on the Window Trim? I bought Duck brand window kit. My windows arent flat but the lower window that you push up sticks out from the top window and have 4 individual glass panes.* I put the tape on the trim in case the plastic shrank too much and the plastic film is too far away that it isnt sticking to the glass window any! :( The instructions on the box didnt make it clear where to put the tape. Should I have put the tape on the actual Glass?* Also the tape did Not Stick enuf as its around minus 3 degrees here I'll have to redo it :(

[DarleneGalland]

Is the tape stickie on both sides 1:56

[sylviarosario]

Don’t peel the tape all at once. Peel the top of the window first than the sides lastly the bottom.

[amoryblaine]

Wont a simple cling film work as well?

[SnowyMango]

Have you ever run into condensation on the inside of the film?

[shamrockashby]

How do you open the window if the film is on the window frame?

[NathanVu]

Does that thin film actually keep the cold out? I was expecting something a lot thicker.

[PastelBrushes-n-Donuts]

I’m having a problem getting the paper off of the tape without having the whole thing peal off, tape included. You didn’t show taking the paper side off. Is there a trick to getting the paper to separate from the tape itself?