Yesterday morning I found myself a bit chilly while playing
kitchen with my daughter in her playroom. So I made an effort to sit close to
the air vent where I knew hot air would be blasting out. As you can imagine I was
quite confused when I felt cold air instead. The vent in that room is placed
right below a window and there was a freezing-cold wintery breeze coming right into my daughter’s play room. Well, crap. That
would explain why our December energy bill is more than DOUBLED the previous
month.
This is our first winter in this house (which is around 25
years old) and during our extremely busy autumn months we neglected to check if
the doors and windows were weatherproofed. What a mistake. Looking back now, I
can recollect conversations between my husband and me about how chilly it was
by the couch (which sits in front of 3 giant windows). Duh. How in the heck did we
not make the connection?
I showed the problem to my husband and (of course) his solution
was to buy new windows. Calmly, I told him to slow his roll and that surely we
could find a cheaper and easier solution. So during nap time yesterday, I YouTubed
several videos on how to weatherproof old windows and this is my favorite
video: https://youtu.be/mQ74FVB9JSI.
Rose and I took a fun field trip to Home Depot today and
bought some foam weatherproofing strips and some removable weather stripping
(it comes in a caulking tube). Once we got home, we got busy cleaning windows
and applying the foam strips. Unfortunately, during the move we misplaced my
caulking gun so it looks like that’ll have to wait a couple more days until we
find ourselves back at Home Depot.
But so far we can see and feel a
considerable difference in the living room temperature. I don't have to wear a jacket inside anymore! And another plus, the
husband was pleasantly surprised when he came home to find it all done and he
could remove it from his Honey-Do List. Count that as a couple brownie points
for the wife.
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