Finding where the main ones are coming in. Techniques? Yes, I know there's a vicious one coming through the letterbox, but what about cold air coming in from the floorboards under cupboards, or through carpets?
===================== A lit candle will detect some draughts. The flame will flicker or bend away from the source of the draught.
Cic.
Even better blow it out and watch the cloud of smoke drift along.
Andy.
then you could just buy a jos-stick type incense thing which would smoke for longer and smell nicer too.
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Your obsessed with draughts man...just find the regular draughts and leave it at that, or put your woolies on.
Regular draughts : door frames, windows and loft panel.
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
Not really, the house can be pretty chilly, for children, anyway.
Ah! The trapdoor!! I'll stick some masking tape around it to see what happens (it's about a yard square).
Nooo try some draft excluder stuff like they put round doors and hold it secure with some hooks and catches...
Have you got room for a vestibule door in your hall? This made a vast difference to my place with a north facing front.
You find draughts in the cupboard in the common room in the home, alongside the Ludo.
Now Drivel, you know Nursie doesn't let you near the games cupboard ever since you swallowed all the Es from the Scrabble set.
Owain
How do you know Mr Craniums nursie?
Dave, What do you mean by a vestibule door?
Bruce
Its an inner door directly after the front door cased in.
Look it up in the dictionary.
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
Very popular in the colder parts of the country, and more effective than a double glazed UPV door - if properly fitted. Of course not all house designs allow for one.
Don't most people call it a porch. Maybe a "porch" has to stick out from the building. Maybe it depends on the order in which you install the two doors. Vestibule suggests a large house to me, with door half way down the hall, like some large old London flats. Simon.
The porch is a US name for it.
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
A porch goes outside the front door and usually ruins the appearance of the house if added afterwards.
It is by definition inside the house. But many modern small houses have them - a friend has a Barrat's box with one.
Mine is just over a meter down the hallway. Someone on the large side couldn't close the front door before opening it.
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Not as I see it. A US porch might be more elaborate than a UK one but it still should be an exterior structure. In the UK at least a porch does not necessarily have a door at its outside end. OTOH I would expect a vestibule to be both inside the main house structure and to have a second door leading (usually) into the main hall.
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