The winter is coming! 10 simple ways to insulate your home

The rapid onset of cold weather on all fronts, and now everyone around is wrapping themselves in warm clothes. Alas, someone is forced to do this at home. According to standards, the average temperature inside residential premises in winter should not fall below 18 degrees, but for many this is clearly not enough. Read and find out how easy it is to insulate your home, stop wrapping yourself in sweaters and live in comfort.

The easiest way to increase the temperature in an apartment or house is to find and close all the cracks. First of all, you should take care of window openings and vents.

Metal-plastic windows are quite dense, but the same cannot be said about wooden ones. You can seal the cracks with special insulation tape, the shelf life of which, however, is one season. Although plastic windows often need modifications: perhaps, if they have been standing for several years, it makes sense to adjust them, change the seal, and heat loss will be significantly reduced.

If you train yourself and your neighbors to constantly close the vestibule and the entrance door, the average temperature in the house will rise by 10%.

The presence of an insulated loggia will significantly increase the overall temperature in the house, especially if the structure is connected to several rooms at once. According to engineers, a closed balcony retains about 15% of heat in an apartment.

Polyurethane foam is a good insulator; it can be used, for example, to additionally insulate window openings. If a metal-plastic window was installed by an unscrupulous team, then the installers could simply leave cavities in the window sill area, and then hastily give the surface a “marketable appearance.”

If it is blowing from under the window sill, it is worth tapping the window opening and using polyurethane foam if necessary. It can also be used to eliminate cracks in entrance doors, which are also often a source of heat loss.

Modern minimalism in the interior should be left for the warmer seasons. Oddly enough, in addition to imaginary beauty, various carpets that were popular in the Soviet past also had a purely functional purpose.

“Its fluffiness” will perfectly serve as additional insulation for cold walls and floors. And if you have noisy neighbors, then the soundproofing function of the carpet will not be superfluous.

Any apartment or house is equipped with ventilation. Before the onset of cold weather, you should inspect the hole, check whether the grill fits tightly to the walls and, if necessary, “foam” the excess free space.

A gap in the doorway leads to drafts and leakage of warm air. If it is not possible to install a double door, then it is necessary to strengthen and insulate the existing one. So, for example, you can walk polyurethane foam over the jamb looking for cracks or use foam rubber for insulation.

An easy way to raise the temperature in your apartment by a few degrees is with a fan. It is enough to install it in front of the radiator, and then point it at the hot battery. The air flow will quickly spread the heat throughout the apartment.

What often happens is that the battery simply heats the concrete wall and not the room. Heat loss can be reduced using a conventional reflector, a two-layer film that motorists often place under the windshield when parking for a long time.

The insulator will allow more heat to be redirected into the room, rather than onto the bare concrete behind the radiator. But it is important that the gap between the wall and the radiator is at least two centimeters, otherwise impaired air circulation will have the opposite effect.

Yes, an ordinary heating pad is a real salvation at night. The fact is that it is at night that maximum heat loss occurs in the apartment. If you want to wake up in the morning without body aches and sore throat, it is recommended to fill up a heating pad in advance and take it with you to bed.

The functions of a heating pad can also be performed by an electric sheet, which does not cool down until the morning, maintaining a temperature of 30 degrees. Although getting out of such a warm bed in the morning will not be easy.

Pipes, batteries and riser must be at the same temperature. If this is not the case, then the system fails. Most likely the problem is the hard limiters on the radiator. The reason may also be wear and tear of the entire system or a malfunction of the boiler. In any case, you should keep all this under control and try to fix the problems before the onset of serious cold weather.

If it’s still cold in your apartment or house, despite all these tips, then all that’s left to do is warm up your loved one, or go to warmer climes for a while!