Insulating Your Home with Blackout Blinds

When you know that you lose 33% of your home’s energy – whether it’s heating or cooling, through your windows, it can be depressing. However, installing blackout blinds to your windows can really help. The biggest reason it helps is because it creates a barrier of air in between the blackout blinds and the window glass itself. When closed, it allows less energy to be lost through the glass because there is a constant amount of air caught between the blinds and the window. This benefit is increased when the blackout blinds are mounted outside the window casing, since there are fewer places for air to get close to the glass.

In the wintertime, it’s a good idea to keep your blackout blinds open during the times the window gets sun. This can help heat your room without as much help from your heater. However, once the window stops getting a lot of sun, you should close the blinds because you can start losing heat immediately. The blackout blinds come in handy to block out the sun when you’re sleeping or to block out the city lights.

In the summertime, you want to keep the blackout blinds closed as much as possible when the window gets full sun. This can help keep your rooms with blackout blinds significantly cooler than other rooms because the sunlight isn’t able to leak in.

The biggest feature of blackout blinds is that they are flexible. They can block out all of the light or just some of the light as needed. You have more opportunity to adjust blackout blinds than you do blackout shades, so don’t just think about the energy efficiency. After all, if you can’t use the room how you would like to, there’s not much of a point having it there.