From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

KajiKita

This has been a really useful discussion and thank you for the links @BookWorm and @greenbee. I’ve ordered some of that silicone strip stuff to see if it helps with the howling gap at the top of our conservatory door! Not sure if we will have it coming up from the door or down from the frame for the door to close against, but either way it should help 😊

KK

badmemory

I have a draught excluder that goes both sides of the door & I have found it works better than a single one.  You also wouldn't have the problem of it making the door difficult to open.  It also stays put under the door, so you don't find yourself tripping up over it.

rtandon27

Somehow all this chat of draught excluders made me chuckle about the (former) hole in our backdoor that once housed a cat flap. For some reason the former residents of this house took the catflap but left the cat!  They boarded it up with plywood which we didn't bother to change for a few years after moving in as we were going to replace the entire door.  I got fed up and realized that catflaps are standard sizes so we bought one that locks, installed it and no longer have a draft!  There is also no need to replace the door as it is otherwise air-tight!

All that to say that sometimes those small changes make the biggest differences!  Hope you find something easy to install for LG's door!

Greying_Pilgrim

badmemory said:

I have a draught excluder that goes both sides of the door & I have found it works better than a single one.  You also wouldn't have the problem of it making the door difficult to open.  It also stays put under the door, so you don't find yourself tripping up over it.

badmemory - do you mean the stuff that is like pipe insulation in a bag, with a strip that goes under the door?  So that if you looked at it from the side, it would look something like o_o  - with the bottom of the door sitting between the two 'o's' - if that makes any sense?  

Greying X

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim - something like this perhaps?

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 said:

@Greying_Pilgrim - something like this perhaps?

Precisely that sweetie!

X

badmemory

Yes exactly that.  Mine is on the door into the porch & has made a big difference.

Greying_Pilgrim

badmemory said:

Yes exactly that.  Mine is on the door into the porch & has made a big difference.

Thanks hun, good to know - and I might see if I can conjure something up to see if it will glide over carpet OK, and stay in place.  

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Useful draught excluder chat! Our back door is rubbish - I put brushes down it a few years back which helped but they're going a bit skew wiff now so I am looking at all these options with interest!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

I'm on a bread roll making venture today.  It's currently not going well ☹️  I made the overnight fridge dough, and it didn't really move a muscle ☹️  I suspect my fridge is actually too cold.   I've put it on for a second prove and made it into roll shapes, but they are currently resembling pitta breads...... 🙄  We'll see how it goes.  I may have to make a second batch of dough and just do it in my usual way, or i'll just go to a shop and buy a roll 🙄  I didn't put black olives in, in the end.  I figured LG gets enough negative attention over what they eat, without 'ewww, wot's THAT' flying across the lunch table 🙄  Thing is, if you're eating summat nice yourself, there's no need to make derogatory comments about other's food, is there.  But that's the thing, they're not, are they 🙄

My tickly throat is still in evidence.  It's like if you swallow a hair (not a hare 🐰), and it's too forward to be able to swallow, but too far back to dislodge it with a strategic cough.  I hope it comes to nought.  I was going to walk into Greying Town today, but the weather is pants, so I may stay put, although in theory I need to think about popping to at least hB.  Not an attractive proposition - even in the car.

It's gone so dark outside!  Ugh, 12 more days until the light returns!

I can't think of anything else at the mo.  

Greying X