Check for draughts in your home by looking for obvious gaps, listening out for rattling windows, especially during strong winds, and feeling for moving air around doors, windows, fireplaces, air outlets, vents, stairways, skirting boards and mouldings around doors or windows.
The most common sources of draughts are external doors and windows, as well as doors to ventilated areas such as bathrooms and laundries.
To stop draughts:
- install easy-to-fit draught excluders on the bottom edge of doors
- add sealing strips around doors and windows
- fit automatic door closers to sliding doors
- seal any gaps between walls and skirtings and fix large gaps around doors and windows
- look for factory-fitted draught-seals when purchasing new windows and doors
- avoid fitting louvre windows in areas that will need to be heated