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Originally Posted by John Mercier
Pine burns hot, but fast....
Though that is not his issue. You hit it correctly with opening the windows.
A tight home isn't exchanging air fast enough to keep the internal and external temperatures the same. Open the windows... let the heat in... close the windows later in the day as it cools down... and drop the shades overnight.
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Once the weather gets too cold for opening windows, consider covering windows with clear plastic film.
An inexpensive 3M product is sold at Amazon that uses white plastic extrusions that are glued to surround the window frame. A thin clear plastic sheet--similar to
Saran Wrap--is provided to snap/press into the plastic frame. The plastic sheet can be removed in Spring and re-used for next season. The thin plastic frame can remain (or be removed from its foam-tape base).
While the "R-value" improvement using
Frost King is minimal considering the size of the rest of one's abode, I found that woodstove smoke odor into the bedroom was stopped immediately.
I my case,
wind direction is critical regarding the seepage of smoke odors back into the house.