With the arrival of cold weather, windows in most apartments and houses begin to leak and sweat. There can be many reasons for this: from high humidity to poor adjustment of plastic windows. On your YouTube channel TAKE AND DO the author offers a non-standard solution that works great even in places where there is no heating.
Will need
- Heating cable 20 W / 1 meter.
- Cable channel.
- Silicone glue.
- Power cord with plug.
Solving the problem of leaking windows with your own hands
You need to purchase a heating, self-regulating cable from a hardware store. It is usually used for heating drains, sewers, etc. Its advantage is that it is completely autonomous and does not heat up above 60 degrees Celsius, so there is no need for any temperature regulators.
So, you just need to lay a piece of this cable under the window and the windows will no longer leak, since they will have constant warm convection.
Let's get started. We take the cable channel and cut it to the size of the bottom of the window.
We take glue and apply it to the cable channel and glue it.
Then we cut off the required piece of heating cable.
We connect a power cord with a plug to one end of the cable and insulate it. We also insulate the second end of the heating cable.
We install the heating cable into the cable channel and snap it into place.
Now let's check by plugging the plug into the socket.
After a couple of hours, we will measure the temperature on the windows using a pyrometer.
And a warming base.
The next morning, after this modification, the windows were dry.
The electricity consumed to heat one window is not difficult to calculate from the cable power of 20 W per meter of length.
