Sentences with word «drafty»

Curtains not only provide a perfect finishing touch to any room but they can also add some extra insulation to keep the cold air from drafty windows at bay.

Another safety factor is that some hamster cages end up being put in drafty areas of a room.

Prevent drafty areas in your pet's cage to keep them from becoming ill.

However, high - efficiency furnaces are most efficient in a big old drafty house.

Poinsettias like the warmth of centrally heated homes but they should be kept away from direct heat, as well as from drafty windows and doors.

If you have birds or smaller animals you keep as companions, make sure their enclosures are located away from drafty doors and windows.

You don't have to put up with drafty rooms.

I'm definitely with you on not wanting to feel too drafty nursing in the winter, chilly is not a good nursing look!

She lived in a tiny apartment just off the courts at Klamovka, the ancient, drafty hall that housed the only indoor courts in Prague when Martina began playing there in 1965.

Sometimes the fans get so drafty with the air.

It's the reason why older homes feel so drafty — so many holes that let out the hot air and suck in the cool air.

We have an old farmhouse with drafty floors and have rugs in the places we stand the most so I was wondering if I could just slip it under the rug and then not even worry about my certain family members who don't want to be crazy like me.

Pros: These organic - cotton flannel sheets are incredibly thick and warm, perfect for drafty bedrooms in the colder months

And after a year of running our new equipment in the new building — which isn't drafty like our old one — we found that our annual utility bills dropped by $ 60,000.

If your windows felt drafty this winter, it may be time for replacements.

Originally favoured for their portability and ability to both insulate and decorate drafty castles, the tapestry has long been a popular form of textile art.

You should also avoid drafty places as well.

Car is drafty like an old house.

«Ghost therapist» Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman) and his daughter Kat (Christina Ricci) arrive at drafty, old Whipstaff Manner.

The retrofitting that had so thoroughly sealed the building «helped cut energy costs but also trapped humidity inside that would otherwise have dried out in drafty air.

Replacing drafty windows with energy - efficient ones will save on energy use.

Churches are generally large drafty spaces, without any heating, so bring extra bedding and pillows for a really comfortable stay.

The Victorians were particularly fond of using Portieres to close off various rooms, since it allowed them to heat only small portions of those large drafty houses.

The shelter was an old drafty building that was difficult to keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

It is getting pretty drafty in my mom cave nowadays.

Avoid drafty areas and dramatic changes in temperature.

If your dog digs in an attempt to keep warm, provide an insulated dog house, give her extra blankets or a differently shaped bed that she can burrow into, move her bed to a cozier, less drafty location, or give her access to an area where she can lie in the warm sun.

The dark blue super-insulated Brooklyn rowhouse in this thermal image shows just how drafty its neighbors are.»

We set ours at 69 in the evenings... we have a very drafty house and the upstairs gets hot and the downstairs is hot or cold depending on the room... it's an old house.

I wanted to replace an older «ski - style» jacket that was waist - length to something that was long to cover my tail during drafty winds during DC winters.

«I made sure to include enough seating so everyone has a good spot,» says Christine «And there are a lot of throws around, because it gets a little bit drafty.»»

Another person suggested it may be too much moisture in the air (I work in an old drafty warehouse).

``... the film feels like a series of shorts stitched together to become one large, drafty quilt of lukewarm sci - fi.»

If you don't need to use the energy in the first place, then regardless of energy source, you can free up that money to do better things than heating drafty rooms and cooling ones which don't ventilate well.

You should avoid placing it on the floor or near drafty window or doors.

If a cage is located near an open window or air conditioner, the cage can get too drafty which can result in your hamster catching a cold.

They're perfect for drafty homes, dashing to and from cars and trucks and running outside to answer the call of nature.

Energy efficient homes are less drafty, quieter, and have lower utility bills than conventionally built homes.

While most clandestine intelligence papers were usually ordered to be destroyed, these were used to plug up drafty holes.

Researchers had thought that pollution causes larger and longer - lasting storm clouds by making thunderheads draftier through a process known as convection.

That was what she told herself over and over, making a little chant of it - a mantra - as she decapitated weeds with the guillotine of her hoe, milked the slit - eyed goats and sat down to somebody's idea of porridge in the big drafty meeting room, where sixty shimmering communicants sucked at spoons and worked their jaws.

But in the meantime, sellers who've sealed their houses tightly are coasting on easy street compared to those hurriedly trying to caulk drafty windows and doors or apply films over glazing before the next showing as temperatures plummet.

In reality, that gets thrown off by everything: sun - drenched picture windows, drafty stairwells, even computer servers create problematic microclimates, confesses Samantha Gal, a harried central dispatcher who works for a major building manager in downtown Vancouver.

Big, drafty sanctuaries, they argued, could not foster the desired sense of community.

You walk alone, down a dark and drafty hallway.

The rooms were always drafty in winter.

Not really, since no adult I know likes to take a warm shower only to step out into a freezing drafty room.