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Here’s a couple simple tips for keeping your home warmer in the wintertime as well as cooler in the summertime. Have you ever gone to turn on a light and felt cold air streaming from the light switch? Or have you ever gone to plug something in an outlet and felt the same thing? These are basically holes in your wall and you need to seal them up to keep the cold out. Sealing them up is something you can do very simply and inexpensively.What you see to the left are Frost King Electric Outlet Sealers. They also make Light Switch Sealers as well. Grab yourself a few packs each of these and a cordless screwdriver and you can seal up all the electric outlets and light outlets in your house in about 30 minutes. Will you notice the difference? Definitely when you go to turn on a light or plug a light in. You’ve got to have at least 50-100 outlets in your home. I imagine sealing 50-100 or so will result in some appreciable difference in how your home feels. Besides they’re about a buck a pack. Give it a shot and see. |
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Another thing that I recently did was to take some thick plastic and wrap my screens with it to the windows of my back porch. These screens are about 4′ by 5′. My back porch is sort of a sun room with those old louvered windows that you crank open and close. Problem is - the windows don’t close all the way anymore which leads to some serious cold air intrusion. I took some packaging tape and some thick plastic and, after taking out the screens, wrapped the screens with the plastic. My back porch was over 20 degrees warmer than the outdoor temperature yesterday. This also creates a nice buffer zone between the outside and the house even when it’s only 5-10 degrees warmer in the porch than it is outside. I also get less worked up now when the wife leaves the door open which leads to the porch. |