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Easy Weatherstripping Tips for Your Home - Save Energy, Save Money, and Be Greener with New Weather Stripping!
The Benefits of Weatherstripping
Save cash, save energy with simple weatherstripping on your home
Even homes that are well insulated can benefit from weatherstripping and caulking to reduce air from entering/exiting the home. Is your surrounding area a little too noisy? Weatherstripping might end that unwanted noise, and will keep out critters, particles and drafts alike. On a one to ten scale (ten being the most difficult), installing new weatherstripping is a "2" difficulty. Anyone can do it. Of all energy home improvements,
installing tight weatherstripping can be one of the most effective. It's cheap, too...you can most likely seal all your leaks for $20 or less.
Weatherstripping Tutorials
Easy to follow step by steps to put up your own weatherstripping
- Weatherstripping Windows and Doors
- Lowe's goes over the easy process of installing weatherstripping, along with novice level illustrations to walk you through it.
- DIY.com's do it yourself weatherstripping tips
- It couldn't be easier with this 4 step plan from the Do it Yourself Network.
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Most weatherstripping is self adhesive, so there's no nailing involved.
Make your Home Even More Energy Efficient!
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Lux Products TX9000TS Touch Screen 7 Day Programmable Thermostat
Compliment your weatherstripping perfectly with this programmable thermostat. Have it kick down a notch while you're at work, kick back on while you're at home, maybe down again while you sleep.
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Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit
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Weatherstripping Doors
Doors are a huge source of escaped heat and air conditioning
To check your weatherstripping around exterior doors, a simple method is to use a flashlight. A person on the opposite end of the door will be able to tell where weatehrstripping is needed if the flashlight shines slowly all around the weatherstripping. Alternatively, you can see most gaps during the day if you look at the weather stripping from the inside when the door is closed. Weatherstripping Windows
Every window is an opportunity for energy to escape!
Windows are a huge source of heat/AC loss, but can quickly be fixed. Crank windows (swinging windows) and double hung windows are the draftiest types of windows, and what most people have in their home. Adhesive backed foam, metal backed vinyl, and spring plastic are all easily installed and effective types of weatherstripping. Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Reducing your Energy Costs
The Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs (Consumer Reports Complete Guide To...)
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Consumer Reports created this book to offer relief from the rising energy costs that steadily drain your wallet. It's jammed with easy-to-follow advice straight from Consumer Reports experts in the areas of home improvement, appliances and autos. You'll discover that there's nothing difficult or mysterious about saving energy dollars-it's really just a bunch of little things you can do that add up to big savings. In fact, many of the tips are surprisingly cheap-or even free. As much as 30 percent of the money you spend on heating and cooling may be wasted through small leaks throughout your house. This book offers step-by step photos that make it easy to find those leaks and plug them up.
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Determining How Much Weatherstripping is Needed
An easy formula so you don't buy too much weatherstripping (or too little!)
When applying your weatherstripping, be sure the surface is completely clean and dry. Double check the length before cutting (and ordering!). Apply weatherstripping snugly to the surface to be sure it creates a seal when closed.
Weatherstripping Old Doors
Watch this video and learn how to do this on your own!
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Have you done some weatherstripping lately? Has it helped on energy bills?
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- dubaiagentslimited dubaiagentslimited Jan 2, 2009 @ 4:49 am
- Great information. Will certainly share this information with our clients incase they require weather stripping.
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Jan 1, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
- Welcome to Living the Green Organic Lifestyle!
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Dec 23, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
- Great tips. We've had our house energy audited and replaced the furnace and all of the windows but not the front door. I'll be getting out my flashlight to check the weatherstripping! Thanks for the idea.
Brenda
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- rms rms Nov 17, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
- Excellent tips!
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- RyanRE RyanRE Oct 27, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
- Nice work and I like the lens. It is definitely getting to be the time of year to think about weatherstripping.
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