Build Your Own Low-Cost Storm Windows

By Gordon Solberg
Published on November 1, 1977
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Photos By Gordon Solberg
Build your own low-cost storm windows to create a warmer winter homestead.

Stay warmer during the winter by building your own low-cost storm windows using these helpful tips.

Storm windows, as you know, can keep your home significantly warmer during the winter . . . but they cost a bundle when you buy
the blamed things ready-made. That single fact alone really left me “out in the cold” when last season’s unseasonably frigid weather
settled over the country. I simply didn’t have enough money lying around to buy storm windows for my house.

So, necessity being the mother of invention and all that, I decided to build my own low-cost storm windows . . . from inexpensive
wood and plastic rather than the currently more traditional aluminum and glass. And I’m happy to report that the did-’em-myself

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