How you know winter is here and your work is not done!

[Shanti]

I think its time to gets the 8ml plastic on the windows. We have ice!! LOL

~goes and scratches her name into the ice covered glass~

I did get one window covered a few weeks ago, its the only one thats ice free.

Time to finish that winter prep!!! Yuk.

Oh and now that the sun is starting to peek onto some of the windows, we also have water!!!

[Cindlady2]

Yummm..... I know you were both bussy and sick, but that should have been an October thing! LOL

I still got to find something to close the gap in our kitchen door. When the landlord replaced it he didn't fit it right and everything we tried so far comes off after a few weeks.
*It's a steel door and frame.

[Shanti]

Originally Posted by Cindlady2

Yummm..... I know you were both bussy and sick, but that should have been an October thing! LOL

I still got to find something to close the gap in our kitchen door. When the landlord replaced it he didn't fit it right and everything we tried so far comes off after a few weeks.
*It's a steel door and frame.

Yuk, bad door material to have to deal with!!!
I use the flexible plastic stripping for the bottom of garage doors for the 1/4 inch gaps around our door. I tack it right on the door and when closed, the stripping overlaps onto the wall cutting the draft to almost zero. But my doors are wood.

At the bottom of my back door is a 2 inch gap, I buy bigger gargage door stripping and being flexible it moves with the door when you open and close so the rubbing on the floor is ok and the draft is cut down again to almost 0. A towel across the bottom when closed finshes all tiny cold leaks. Again its a wooden door.

[Glowingsun]

My front and back door is steel. And it sucks because my computer area is right in front of the front door so I get a chilly draft.

I, too, only have one window covered in plastic and thats the one that needs replacing. However my big picture window gets so cold and it distributes the chill around the room.

Our plecko died because the bedroom is not insulated properly and the water got a little too cold.

My heat is on as high as I dare to put it. I dread my hydro bills now. Adn the kitty litter that is near the heater in the bathroom, well lets just say that the house smells like dusty gravel. The cats like to throw kitty litter around and it got into the furnace ducts.

[Cindlady2]

Yeh, I got to fix (cover) the front door yet too. We don't use it anyway so we put insulation between the two mostly glass doors.
That back (steel) door is a pain. The "sticky" stuff gets cold and peels off in a few weeks (or days). Everything else we found you nail or screw in.
And my computer is by that door too! The heat duct for the kitchen is in the opposite corner! I put an old blanket on the floor and have a small heater if I get real cold. Hate using it though, shoots up the elc. bill!