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Default shrink wrap storm windows?

TimR wrote the following:
Has anybody had any experience with using those shrink wrap polyolefin
interior storm windows?

Either the DIY style, like http://www.ehow.com/way_5369715_diy-...m-windows.html

Or the commercial types, like
http://www.windotherm.com/engineeringtests.htm, one of many similar
products out there.

They work somewhat. I had used some on the outside of my basement
windows from a roll of the clear wrapping plastic that you see being
spun around a pallet of boxes, etc.
Using a digital thermal measurer, there was about a 5 degree increase in
surface temp on the interior glass with the film than the one without.
I recently replaced the film with 1/8" plastic acrylic sheeting.

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Bill
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