Sentences with phrase «drafty house»

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

Readers who comment on a special blog series, the «Drafty House Rehab,» will have a chance to win one of four available gift cards.

Jackets and coats are often best for outdoors because the material provides a windbreak as well as warmth, while a sweater might be appreciated in a drafty house.

At sleepy on hudson, we are big, big fans of the sleep products at Little Lotus because they solve the problem of the over active heating / drafty house, and they do it with well designed sleep sacks and swaddles that improve sleep right from the get go.

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.

But for those, like the author, willing to wrap themselves in a blanket and brave the unfriendly aesthetics, the drafty house was a home.

Because of Buffalo's tough winters and beautiful but old and drafty housing stock, most of the neighbors paid more for utilities than they did for rent!

Homeowners are so used to cold and drafty houses in the wintertime that absolute thermal comfort is quite unexpected and hard to comprehend.

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.

Not exact matches

My house is drafty.

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.

We live in an older house and our windows are drafty.

Especially in our cold Midwestern winters in our drafty old house.

At the time, they were living in a big, drafty, old house set in the rolling hills, thirty minutes outside of the village of Perth - Andover, while my brother - in - law worked hard to get his forestry business off the ground.

Like most houses of that era, it was drafty, poorly insulated and cost a fortune to heat and cool each year.

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 clients, whose extended families owned large, drafty, energy inefficient homes, immediately latched onto the Passive House standard for both the energy savings and the increased comfort.

They will perform CO2 tests, and use Infrared technology to determine if the house has energy leaks, specifically spotting drafty areas through windows and doors and there's a blow door blaster test included.

Four and a half years ago, living in a drafty two hundred year old brick cape farmhouse with my mother in her mid-nineties, we were burning more than six cords of hardwood and more than 2000 gallons of fuel oil keeping the old girls (both my mother and the house!)

Inventor Andy Rawson says on Kickstarter, «I have a 100 year old house that can be drafty and hard to heat in the winter.

«Ask lots of questions while the evaluator is at your house, especially if you have specific problems like a room that is colder or draftier than the others.

If home owners» houses felt drafty this past winter and they have single - pane windows, there's a good chance those were one of the culprits.

If the house is old and drafty this is less of a concern (the draw of the heater will pull outside air through cracks in the house) but still not totally mitigated.

My house is old and drafty and the carpet helps the room feel warmer, too.

old houses were drafty and hard to heat.

This house was pretty drafty so this helped to make the living room cozy.

We are renting a house right now, so the big green things — replacing the drafty windows and old a / c — aren't possible for us right now.

Funny — that window is original to the house and is really drafty and old but I love it.

Ghosts, major repairs and drafty rooms are just some of the reasons British house - hunters are refusing to move into period properties, according to new research.