Draught Excluders

Butterfly_Brain

www.craftycrafty.tv has a tutorial on making them

Archiel

You can use old plastic shopping bags - and old clothes, towels, etc. To weight them down use, sand or fish bowl pebbles.

Butterfly_Brain

Try this one I found on flikr it uses pipe lagging and is really easy to make.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notmartha/sets/72057594068949613/

mardatha

Somewhere on here I read of a clever way of making a snake stay attached to the door, so that when you opened the door the snake went back with it when it closed. Anybody know how to do that ?
Also how do you make a door curtain that will cover the facing and yet not catch in the door when you open it ?

zippychick

Hi Mardatha

Glad I didn't get this thread confused with the Vegetarian sausages one he he! :rotfl:

Hmmmm.... they would need to be connected at both ends to the door... check this thread to see if there's any ideas in there. Maybe with a simple tab connected to a mini hook on the door? Thinking out loud here.....:D

Ill add your thread to that one later
thanks
Zip


Edit - this kind of?

Oh - cool!

Butterfly_Brain

I think this is the one hun
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notmartha/sets/72057594068949613/

mardatha

Oh aren't some people great at solving problems ? this is superb, thank you. Now I get to play with my new (freecycle) sewing machine whoohoo !

ginnyknit

Well done on the freecycle sewing machine! The draught excluder looks simple, just what I need

mardatha

I am miffed. I made the double roll one featured on one of those links and it works fine, but the daughter laughed at it and thinks it's silly. I hope she uses it.

csarina

You need a portiere rod for the door curtain it liffts the curtain as the door is opened and drop it down when the door closes. Look on E bay.