How to seal windows and reduce heating costs: detailed instructions

We tell than actually dangerous drafts, which factors determine the tightness, how to check and replace the seal on the windows.

Croaching - a friend or enemy?

Residential premises need permanent air exchange. We feel good if you breathe clean and cool air. And the draft is becoming a friend when it brings a living room to a stuffy roast room. Of course, in a moving stream of air, a person loses heat more intensively. But he does not fall from draft, as such, but from supercooling.

Comfortable conditions for living - this temperature is 18-21 ° C and air humidity 50-60%.

And in the summer it is undesirable to replace the open hand to the working air conditioner. This device reduces air humidity in the room. And on time, not purified filters begin to distribute pathogenic microorganisms around the apartment. In the winter, unregulated radiators work in most Russian apartments. Therefore, the air during the heating season is overly dry and warm.

In such conditions, we sweat and lose the necessary liquid organism, the nose mucosal dry out, which increases the risk of respiratory diseases. Obviously, in this case, the greater danger comes from closed windows and submarines, and not from drafts.

Of course, excessively cold air, which is constantly penetrating into the house through the leaky window frames, also does not promise anything good. Because of it, the temperature and residential premises are descended to be constantly hung, spending a lot of funds.

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Factors affecting the tightness of the windows

Different factors affect the tightness of plastic windows. First, this is the quality of the frame. Secondly, the tightness of the glass package. And also the degree of pressed sash, for which the sealing profile meets. The appearance of condensate on the glass, the window freezing, a loose fit of the sash and a tangible draft near the window opening unequivocally indicate its wear. Perhaps the problem will solve the master who adjusts the plastic window. But what to do if there is no positive result, and the replacement of old glass windows is not new in the nearest plans of the homeowners? This unpleasant situation will change the update of sealing window profiles.

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Preventive inspection of windows against draft

First of all, you need to check in what condition the window seals and where exactly they pass the air. The easiest way to do it in cold windy weather with the help of a burning candle. If the fire fluctuates, it means that the tightness is violated.

Another option is to lay the paper sheet into the open window. After that, close the sash and try to pull it out. If this managed to do this, the seal replacement is necessary. The domestic market offers products from ethylene propylene rubber, silicone, rubber, thermoelastopolymer. Cost 1 pm € varies from 30 to 55 rubles.

The process of sealing windows

1. Before starting work, the old seal dismantle and purify the surface from its residues. The window frame is wiped with a cloth moistened in water with a small amount of dishwashed soap, and give it to dry.
2. Measure all sides of the window frame. After that, lay a fresh sealing profile and cut it in accordance with the dimensions.
3. Gently glued profiles. With one hand, the paper protecting the adhesive layer is removed, the other is tightly pressed the profile to the frame.
4. In the corners of the joints of individual sealing profiles glue with each other.