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Default Air draft from basement

On Aug 15, 10:51*am, wrote:
Is it normal to have a draft of air coming from your basement to the
main floor? *You can feel it easily coming from under the basement
door on the main floor level. *The Basement windows and doors are
closed and when installed were sealed tight with foam. *No draft is
getting in around them. *Yet, the door on my main floor leading to the
basement has a fair amount of air draft coming in under the door. What
could be causing this?


If you realy want to know and not guess get an energy audit and a
blower door test, even a blower door test itself will give a printout
of how many air exchanges per hour your house has and should have. The
tech then pinpoints all the leaks with a smoke stick. Old houses are
leakers, the test might pay for itself in a few months, mine did. It
might cost 300, a full audit would be a few hundred more but will
eliminate guesswork on how to save on utilities.