#HeatwaveHack

Sherri 🌈 ”Gayler” (she/her)PDXyogini@toot.cat
2024-07-05

We’re beginning a stretch of HOT weather so it’s time for this fix I didn’t think of until last year! We have a single, west-facing window, it’s a greenhouse box window. In the summer it absolutely bakes our kitchen. In the winter cold pours in from it.

Solution: 2 insulating foam panels. The side facing out the window is coated in Mylar, so it even reflects sun away! While it looks janky, we found it helped a lot.

Ursa hates it because he has a mat in this window box and likes to lie there, chattering at birds.

#HeatwaveHack #KeepCool #pdxtst

A kitchen wall. Two foam “R-TECH INSULFOAM” panels black a window and are held in place with blue tape. You can see a set of 3 hanging, wire baskets with citrus fruits in the bottom basket. A stone countertop has a flower pot, shopping bag, and the blue tape roll. There’s a shelf on the counter with a toaster, rice cooker with an open lid, jars of breakfast cereal, and issue ids and ends.

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