The average home loses about 30 percent of its heat due to drafts, usually felt around windows, doors and fireplaces, or even cold spots along walls or floors. Drafts are caused when a house’s warm air leaks out and gets replaced or even pushed out by cold air. Not only can this make you uncomfortable in your own home, but it also makes your heating less efficient.

Here are a few tips for eliminating drafts in your home with correct home insulation.

If you feel cold drafts inside your home even when your heater is working at its maximum, there is a high chance you get cold air leaking into your space via small gaps and cracks around your doors and windows. And that may lead to severe issues with your heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems working harder throughout the year and a drop in the overall thermal performance of your house.

However, sealing air leaks around your doors or windows is a relatively easy home renovation to perform today. Such home improvements do not require many investments or hard-to-install materials; you can use simple methods such as caulking and weatherstripping.

But before insulating your front doors to prevent air leaks, it would be wise to consult with window & door experts, such as Ecoline Windows or a professional HVAC technician, to ensure sealing these gaps will not affect the ventilation and air quality within your house.

Having new doors or windows installed offers a new look, greater energy efficiency, less maintenance, and may increase the value of your home. Full door and window replacement is a considerable investment that requires you to do your research in advance for items that will be installed and who will be installing them.

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