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Zippy
Farmgirl in Training
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Zee
Idaho
USA
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 Posted - Oct 26 2012 : 09:37:46 AM
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Hello, I'm sort of a newbie here, but I thought I would post a bit about the things I'm doing to get our home ready for those chilly days of winter.
I just finished our living room and kitchen yesterday. I put that shrink wrap plastic on all the windows and some weather stripping on the front and back doors. I also put some outlet insulators in the outside wall sockets.
I can't believe how much warmer it stays in those rooms now! We have an oil stove and the fuel for that thing is so expensive, anything I can do to keep the heat in helps save some money.
Does anyone have more ideas for weather proofing I might be able to utilize?
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pinokeeo
True Blue Farmgirl
559 Posts
Phyllis
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2012 : 2:06:27 PM
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Draft dodgers. Use towels, rugs, or whatever you have to make draft dodgers for your doors. We put them down in front of all of our doors when we are inside. It keeps the heat from seeping out under the door sill.
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Zippy
Farmgirl in Training
22 Posts
Zee
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2012 : 6:29:55 PM
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Thanks, I will be using the draft dodger idea. I can feel the cold air coming from underneath my doors. I've read that all those little leaks add up to the equivalent of a big hole in one of your walls in energy waste!
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2012 : 07:15:07 AM
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With a big woodstove and a small log house, I am trying to let heat our most of the time. *lol*
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Zippy
Farmgirl in Training
22 Posts
Zee
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2012 : 12:12:00 PM
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Sherone, I can relate to that. We used to have a small house with a very good woodstove and we had the same problem, lol. I miss our woodstove :(
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2012 : 12:19:48 PM
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Yep, weather stripping and draft dodgers--in my old cottage from 1920, there is very little insulation and over the years, getting new windows has made a big difference, too. I have made draft dodgers before, but this year, I happened into this place called The Christmas Tree Shop (which, incidentally has only a "little" Christmas decor) and found these awesome sand filled draft dodgers at $3.99 a piece. They work better than any I've had. Going to go back and get some more! I invested in one of those electric stoves that looks like an old cast iron wood fireplace for $150.00 and it heats up to 400 sq. feet. My husband had it on this a.m and it just about ran me out of the house at 65 degrees.
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hialtfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
72 Posts
Terri
WA.
USA
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Posted - Nov 20 2012 : 04:09:35 AM
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I can relate to the large wood stove and small log house...our log home is 16 x 30 with an upstairs....logs are not easy to heat if not chnked well...(another subject...LOL!) and they are not good insulators(my experience anyhows).
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Madelena
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary
Central
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 18 2012 : 05:06:31 AM
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I am planning to make Window Quilts.. when I lived for a while in an old turn of the century (1900) farm house..The tall, thin window glass hardly kept the cold out. I was bundled in a living room chair in a big quilt to keep warm in winter.
Silly me.. why not quilt the windows instead of the people? I figured I could make a quilt that would be nice to look out on the outside and inside.
Make it the height and width of the window. And hang it just inch or so away from the glass to prevent condensation on the material and thus eliminate the potential for black mold growth.
So, that's my goal for this summertime and hope to have the Home snuggly wrapped by next winter!
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