Feeling a cold draft (locating source)
 

Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

Try lighting a candle then blow it out, move it around while its still
smoking to see which way the smoke blows. If your a smoker just move around
a lit cigarette or cigar and watch the smoke.


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Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

wrote

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from?

Go to a crafts or home decorating store and buy a couple of incense sticks.
They work great as smoke pencils and make the place smell nice too. Besides
if you have any hippy friends you'll never get rid of them ;)

buy a couple of incense sticks

Now there's a dandy idea. Saves me from having to buy some Corona Emphysemas
and polluting the house while I ferret out the Arctic breezes. Thanks Dave...

Joe

The house is haunted. What you feel is the presence of the ghosts moving
about.


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Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:53:53 -0500, "Bell"
wrote:

The house is haunted. What you feel is the presence of the ghosts moving
about.


Ghosts!

Who You Gunna Call????!!!!!


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Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie




:-P

later,

tom @ www.URLBee.com

041216 1553 - William W. Plummer posted:

wrote:

Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

Stairwells are your prime candidate. Tack a blanket across the top of
the stairs. This will block the flow of warm air from the lower level
and the cold air from upstairs down to your living area.

Check the fireplace too, if you have one...

Someone recommended purchasing incense sticks. I would add putting a fan in
the window to exhaust inside air. You want to create a draft to find the
leaks.

You should shut off your appliances or furnance when you do this. Go around
your home with the burning incense or a water spray bottle to wet your hand
to feel the cold around electric outlets, doors, floor and wall joints,
windows, paneling joints, penetrations by water or waste pipes, ceiling
fixtures, etc...

You'll find a lot of places you can seal with caulk no doubt. You can make
a list as you go of the drafty spots and go back later to fix it. Have fun.

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Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

Close the back door

wrote:
Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

On 16 Dec 2004 06:16:42 -0800, wrote:

Sitting in my living room while watching TV. I can feel a cold air
draft move by. I recently put in Celular shades to keep cold from
comming from the windows. Also put in a new storm door to reduce
drafts from the front door.

Is there a good way of targeting where the cold air is from? Also, is
it possible it would be comming from the under the baseboards?

c_kubie

You have received many replies but they're all guesses. You haven't
given enough info to determine what the source might be. Everyone
assumes you have a house just like their's or at least what they are
familiar with.

Age and configuration of house, single/multi story; basement; type of
heating system, if recirculating air, where are the outlet and return
registers located, ceiling/wall/floor; fireplace?