Thermal/house heat retention question: I figure that this is as good a board as I will find for help with my home heating question (a loyal, if largely dissatisfied, holder since 1986, with the patience of a martyr, I'm afraid):
We live in a house with two-story high, thermo pane windows wrapped around our living room, facing south and east. During sunny days in winter, the sun fills the room, heating it to 80 degrees (as well as warming the rest of the house quite nicely), between 11 and 2:30 or 3:00.
The problem, of course, is the rest of the day and especially night, when all the solar- and oil-fired-generated heat dissipates quite dramatically, increasing our net use of heating oil substantially.
Does any one know of a lightweight product (and its sponsoring web site) that could be unfurled, as it were, from a curtain rod or something analagous to it, and draped down over the windows during the winter dusk to dawn hours to mitigate heat loss. Normal weight curtain fabric would be extremely heavy (necessitating a heavy gauge rod), cumbersome, and costly. I'm wondering if there is any high tech "wrap" type material that is light weight, very heat retentive, that could be rolled up and down by day and night, and not lose its tensile strength or ability to withstand multiple drawing and undrawing, kind of like phase change memory having many use cycles (:.
Many thanks in advance,
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