| The ordinary draught excluder might seem a bit | | | | excluders for any type of window, and nowadays |
| dull, but if installed correctly can transform your | | | | they blend in so well you can hardly notice them. |
| home into a much more cosy and energy | | | | Draught excluders are often not necessary on |
| efficient place to live. If you look are around | | | | double glazing as the frames normally have seals |
| doors and windows of your home you are like to | | | | built in. Double glazing also has the additional |
| feel some cold air that is coming in from outside. | | | | benefit of being better insulated, both for heat |
| If the cold air is coming in, then your warm air is | | | | and noise. The trouble is that the installation cost |
| going out and that means that your heating | | | | can be huge, and that's where fitting a draught |
| system is working much harder than it should be. | | | | excluder comes into its own. You can keep the |
| One of the best things about draught strips is | | | | original old fashioned style window frames and if |
| that they are so cheap that they pay for | | | | combined with secondary glazing, you can get |
| themselves very quickly because of the energy | | | | pretty close to the performance of double glazing |
| that they save. | | | | too. |
| Draughts can be most easily detected on a windy | | | | For doors, it is best to use a brush strip along the |
| day, or when you open a door or window on the | | | | bottom edge, there are two types to choose |
| opposite side of the house. If you wet your | | | | from; straight and angled. The straight ones are |
| hands with water, you can more easily feel the | | | | good for doors that are a distance away from |
| flow of cold air. Another good way is to light | | | | the ground and angled ones are best for doors |
| some incense and use the smoke trail to see if air | | | | which open flush with the floor. Alternatively, a |
| is leaking. | | | | fabric draft excluder also works well along the |
| Generally speaking, the older the window or door, | | | | bottom of doors - the sausage dog ones are |
| the more likely that you can save using a draught | | | | very cute and make ideal gifts too. Also you need |
| excluder. Loose sash windows are notorious for | | | | to consider cat flaps, keyholes, and letter boxes |
| letting lots of cold air in, because there is often big | | | | which all can be fitted with a draught excluder of |
| gaps where the two halves meet. The good | | | | some description. |
| news is that there are highly effective draught | | | | |