It's a Bit Heath Robinson

but I'm hoping this foil-covered piece of cardboard might help to keep the heat in the house. 

I've been meaning to do this for ages but first of all thought I'd already chucked out the humungous box that a new suitcase arrived in months ago - I hadn't it was still lurking in the shed, thankfully.  Then I kept thinking I'd need to buy the really wide turkey foil to cover the cardboard - goodness knows why, as the ordinary foil from Aldi worked just fine (albeit with some help from sellotape on the back.)

I've slipped the foil-covered cardboard down the back of the large radiator in the living room.  This radiator is on an outside wall, has got a settee in front of it (I know, not ideal for circulating the heat but there's nowhere else for said settee to go), and has to heat not only the living room but the dining room too (no radiator there or in the kitchen).  Taking all that into account I figure that if we can radiate some of the heat back into the room and not out through the wall, we might be able to keep the heat off for a bit longer.  One can but hope!!  Anyway, it hasn't cost me anything, and if it don't cure it won't kill that's for sure!

Comments

[Catz]

You have reminded me, I have to get some more of those done! the little one in our downstairs cloakroom (outside wall) really does make a differene!

[s]

Good thinking! I have radiators on the outside wall with sofas in front of then them too so might have a go at making these.