Just goes to show that the landlord couldn't fix the problem without restarting.
How well does that stuff work? The packages show the final product as looking the same as brand new windows, but what's the real final result? Does it look like you have saran wrap hanging off your walls?
I find that, compared to the plastic, rope caulk works better, is easier to put up, and doesn't risk ruining the paint .
JL--but does it work when you're losing heat through the damn single pane?
I'm just thinking I have to go buy more double-sided tape soon because the plastic is starting to pull away and get wrinkly. although I may just go around the edges with duct tape.
rope caulk works better
Yeah, I don't know why Labs bothered with the shrink-wrap stuff when he has caulk up the wazoo.
My windows are single-pane and drafty, but my old building's radiators are insanely warm, so it all balances out. (Heat's included in the rent, which is good, because it has managed to snow through the gaps in the windows before.)
does it work when you're losing heat through the damn single pane?
Probably not. I was reacting to the first paragraph, which didn't mention single pane windows. Sorry for not paying attention - I was too busy reading all the great comments from propecia drugs.
Well, I was just thinking about my own situation, not Labs's present and past. Because, really, who cares?
My roommate got this amazing plastic sheeting that is simultaneously quite thick and perfectly transparent. I've never been warmer.
I hope you poked some air holes in it.
SB continues to pwn. Kotsko, brand name?
Though it looks like staying warm may not be an immediate concern.
Thanks, Matt. I try my best. Mustn't let our wisecrack stockpile lag behind the Russians'.
i have single pane glass too. if i don't open my window every day to "aerate" while i'm out, drops of water condense inside the window and then stream down in not-so-little rivulets. this seems like the reverse of "properly functioning shelter" to me, but what do i know.
my books and i aren't doing so well with the humidity...but my orchids are fab.
maybe it was a bad idea to live in a city neighborhood nicknamed "the swamp."
SP, it's easy to trim the remainders, though I haven't done this yet. I have to say I'm impressed by how transparent the stuff is when shrunk-- it looks fine. Of course, some of my windows are longer than the plastic, so I had to improvise, and the results aren't as aesthetically pleasing. But if it keeps the draft down...
Mustn't let our wisecrack stockpile lag behind the Russians'.
We cannot allow a Mineshaft gap.
Which is better, "up the wazoo" or "out the yang"?
Perhaps I should show more respect to Drs. Wazoo and Yang, on this, the twenty-fifth anniversary of their experiment giving the world's first evidence for the eponymous Wazoo-Yang threshhold.
Hey, mmf!, where in the Swamp do you live? (I loved my time on Rue du Temple.)
Yin was a grad student at the time. No cite for Yin!
I thought it was "out the yin-yang."
I've always (perhaps mis)heard "out the ying-yang".
We are all Joe Drymala.
Would that it were so. Except the laydeeez.
Hey, indeed. That's twice, John Emerson. It really is one of our few rules that we not impersonate one another.
I couldn't legally have consensual sex.
Imagine the heartbreak:
Slo's potential one true love: "You mean you're only .... 15?"
Slo: "But... but..." [anguished sob]
SPOTL: [replaces diaphragm in case, replaces panties on booty, spits out chewing tobacco] "I ain't gonna do no time for the likes of you, Sonny-boy."
I have no choice but to submit to the fascist paradigm of patriarchal hegemony.
Or maybe the patriarchal hegemony of the fascist paradigm.
22: my street crosses rue du temple. so we're voisins manqués, jackmormon. greetings from the Swamp.
i'm at the northern end though, near the arts et metiers metro stop. and that museum with all the Flying Machines. it's getting nice. little art galleries -- 3 opened up on my block since i moved in -- are making a comeback against the legions of crappy bag and jewelry wholesalers. if you recall.
Lucky, lucky Mmf! A little north of the clubby hecticness, south of prostitutes' walk (or did Sarko succeed?). Last time I was there--two years ago--I thought that some of those small galleries were showing interesting stuff. Well, one of them was willing to show my ex's sculpture, which surely counts for something. Are you already addicted to the Vietnamese food at Ming Chau (R. de la Verrerie)?
[Sorry, everyone else.]
Ming Chau is great. ha!
i haven't noticed prostitutes - i think sarkozy was successful. (btw, have you seen photos of the posters Act Up is satirizing him with - sarkozy's photo and the words "Voter Le Pen" in big type underneath?) i mostly notice that in montmartre, where it's a game to see how many transvestites you can spot at night. but the little 3e galleries are great. they have little champagne vernissages that overflow into the street which i have been known to join when coming home after a long day...making me very fond of them. and then the art is not half bad - a lot is video-based now. i hope your ex and the galleries brought each other success...