Desperado, sealing off your vehicle to the area you occupy is applicable to your house as well.

If you lose power on a cold or freezing night, use whats available to seal off a small area in a room of the house to trap heat. staple blankets or tarps to the ceiling or walls and duct tape them to the ground and all around it.

Susan,

Excellent topic. Surely that would help. An even more effective and still fairly compact and very lightwight alternative would be to carry Reflectix pieces cut with scissors to fit your windows. These easily roll together and I store mine in the car where I keep the windshield sun shade.

This is a favorite tactic of Honda Element owners who camp in their vehicles. The Reflectix pieces, cut slightly larger than the windows, fit snugly simply by compresssing the edges into the window openings.

I've done this and it is striking how much cooler the car gets in the morning the moment you pull the Reflectix pieces down. A fellow on the Element forum posted this week about an overnight trip he did to Mammoth Lakes where it got down to 12 degrees at night. He slept in the Element and used Reflectix in the windows.

The Reflectix is great for camping in the car as an insulator and for privacy.

Cheap, too.

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stor...ocStoreNum=8125

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At the links above are photos of an Element outfitted with Reflectix. Obviously on a very cold night it's a good idea to cover the sunroof, too.

I was trying to have those photos appear in this post but it's not working. Maybe I don't have the settings right. This forum has always looked very low-tech on my computer.

Edit out the ":left" in your first image tag.

That would be my thought also, plain old glass does not insulate worth a darn. Still probably need to crack a window on the lee side for ventilation...

Photos still aren't appearing.

..Reflectix pieces cut with scissors to fit your windows...

That stuff is great. We have it for our 5th wheel. If we are leaving for the day we put it up to keep the heat load down inside. Much easier to cool the rig off when we return. For outside storage of RV's it also extends the life of the interior by preventing heat damage.

I just found Reflectix at Ace Hardware. Rolls are 5 feet wide and they sell by the one foot width. Picked some up for a project.

"...We have it for our 5th wheel..."

We use it on ours too, mainly for that huge picture window on the rear end, and the clear dome over the shower (which makes it really bright in the mornings when we want to sleep in). I replaced some of the window frame screws with the screw-in male parts of snaps, then installed the female snaps on the foil to hold it in place. Looks kinda hokey from the outside, but really helps on the inside...

I swear RV's are like one big never ending project. It's not that they break, there is always something more to do. If I ever get this hole in my side closed I will go take some pics of our multi-level storage underneath and send.