blanket the windows and doors..

I wonder its this is common practice with other peoples during the winter.
Do you cover your windows with blankets, over your standard drapes and blinds, do you put blankets up over the doors to prevent drafts.. do you stuff your door frames with felt, or other things like plastic bags, do you put plastic on your windows?????...

I have a few doors I put blankets over. some windows. some my doors are ok , but I stuff strips of cut blankey in the cracks .. I dont like that plastic shit on the windows. when I was a kid, we always poked holes in it. my mom with put tape on them. it was so noisy those stupid this puffing in the wind.. and we could open the window and blow the smoke out.. lol

 

Never Used Blankets, But This Is What I Have Done....>>>

All External Doors Have Draft Excluders On The Bottom, And I Put The

Adhesive Backed Sponge Rubber Tape On The Door Frames.

All Windows Are Aluminium And The Strip Between The Sliding Panels

Is Pretty Good, But I Sealed The Window To The Timber Frame With Silastic.

Every Window Has An Insulating Tightly Fitting Roller Blind, Even The Tiny

Windows In The Laundry And Loo.

Every Window Has Thick Rubber Backed Curtains, Even The Little Ones.

Worked Perfectly For 28 Years....



Cheers Glen.

 

I replaced all the spongy tape stuff, it makes big change on my interior door too, a few rooms I dont heat, and dont want the draft coming in... had those rubber drapes in the one room, but someone put them in the drier of death..

 

I Can Just Imagine The Smell As The Rubber Melted, And Everything

Your've Put In The Dryer For Years Has Come Out Smelling The Same...:rofl:



Cheers Glen.

 

it was laundromat luckily..

 

I have found that Rope Caulk works great on my 90 year old windows. just stuff it in all the cracks and they pull right out come spring when its time to open the windows. its basically silly putty.

I use blankets too. I have grey wool blankets over my bedroom windows because I sleep in the daytime, and i like it dark. Of course they are underneath the nice drapes.

 

Iv'e Never Seen That Before, What A Great Idea...



Cheers Glen.

 

That gray stuff is called "Mortite"..

 

90% of the windows in my house are new insulated double-hung windows that allow you to clean the outside of the windows very easily from the inside. They’re sealed tight and even when the temps are below zero and the wind is blowing there’s not so much as a draft – but, there’s this one old original window that wasn't replaced that I have to use a blanket in order to keep out the cold. :freezing:


Hotwater

 

If you're going to put a blanket over your window, make sure it's something really cheesy and redneck, like power ranger sheets, or one of those fuzzy wolf blankets they sell at gas stations

 

Taking Into Account Your Heritage, I Would Of Thought "Double Hung"

Would Be Taken For Granted....

Whooops...:leaving:



Cheers Glen.

 

That’s one stereotype I’m willing to live with :2thumbsup:



Hotwater

 

I have blankets on 3 of my windows year round because I'm too cheap for curtains. Actually the windows in my bedroom have curtains, too, but I like dark.

 

We will be doing some of this stuff. Hubby took off the awesome storm windows when he put in a/c window units. I know we are going to miss that bit of insulation. There was no talking him into removing the units for winter and putting the storm windows back. He gave the storm windows to a scrap man...

The weather stripping around the doors has been destroyed by kitty cats...lovable little cusses.

 

Our house is over 100 years old, so it was pretty drafty. Over the years we have replaced all the windows and added blown-in insulation. No blankets needed anymore.
We did the insulation ourselves, it was hard freakin work.

 

My fuzzy wolf blanket is a lion.... But ya.. :love:

awe my + rep gun is outa bullets..

 

Yes! My daughter is home after being gone for 6 years and the first thing she wants is that blanket!

Mine's gone. I don't know where.

 

those fuzzy blankets are great.. I use one in the car as a lap cover.. and they're pretty nice right out the drier..

 

I use blankets, my house has no heating and only single glazed windows and it gets freezing and very drafty. I got a draft breaker at the front door, he's called Fred and is a sausage dog that my grandma made years ago specifically as a draft breaker for my dad who gave it to me there's another one called Alonzo which my dad still has.

 

no