• Rusty Raven M
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    3 days ago

    I had an old blanket nailed across my laundry door for a few years. I have now made a curtain with some discounted insulated curtain fabric I found instead, it hangs on a tension rod with shower curtain rings sewn onto the curtain. I managed to sort out a pelmet as well to help keep the heat in/out better, using some extra fabric and a couple more tension rods. Miss Meow has not discovered a way through (which is good, if I wanted her to I would do the raised corner) but Mr Woof is happy to push it aside so he can get through to the dog door.

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      3 days ago

      Oh, shower curtain rings are a good idea. (Then again they might require buttonhole bars for the hooks because I don’t want to cut holes.) Do you find any heat escapes out the top?

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        3 days ago

        That’s what I put the pelmet over the top for, it seems to work well - the laundry it blocks off is really draughty and uninsulated and the cold and heat does not really get though at all.

        I sewed some tape across the back with gaps to put the shower rings through, which means the top of the curtain is above the rings rather than hanging below, which also reduced the gap air could get through considerably.

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          3 days ago

          Smart! I’m in a rental so might have to skip the pelmet though (I find even masking tape leaves sticky marks behind and the poor quality paint is fragile)