Pesky draughts - where are they coming from?

babyblooz

We have double glazing but it is an old house with high ceilings, so needs a bit to heat it up nicely. Since this windy weather, somehow, somewhere, there is a wind, and I mean a wind, coming in through the dining room into the sitting room somehow! What are the most likely places for it to be coming from?

nobile

Could be through the seals of the double glazing -

nearlyrich

Our house is really well insulated my OH is anal about draughts but tonight our curtains are moving and there is a jetstream of cold air coming in the keyhole. It's blooming windy out there I am not even going for the normal Thursday night at the local ...

ormus

do you have fitted carpets?
are the skirting boards fitted tight?
is it coming from another room? ie the back door. any air bricks?
we seal ours up in winter with some foil/tape.
(we dont use the gas fire).

babyblooz

I've been going round checking. We did have a problem with the french doors, but a man came out and adjusted them and they are fine now. We think it must be coming up from under the floor or through the cavity somehow because it has direction, its not just cold air that is sitting there.

We had a radiator put it before christmas and we had some messing about with rerouting some of the pipework and some pipes are exposed (waiting to be boxed in) and there is a small hole where it comes up from the floor and goes into the ceiling so I think it must be that, but it has to be seen to be believed!!!

I think I am going to stuff some newspaper in the gaps and see if that makes a difference.

babyblooz

Crikey, the wind is so bad now it sounds like there is a werewolf round the back door.

dipsy

babyblooz wrote: »

Crikey, the wind is so bad now it sounds like there is a werewolf round the back door.

so there isn't one? I was damn sure there was,

The extractor fan in kitchen is rattling like its going to take off and came home today to find, lots of rubbish everywhere, bin had gone over andwhereas I normally have my blue bag for paper lifted every now and again
I now have 4.... every cloud has a silver lining

babyblooz

It must be the same wind blowing around you AND me Dipsy, cos I am in South Yorkshire as well! 'So slap on thi' muffler an' wait til it blows itsen art'

for non yorkshire people, that means,
put on your woollen scarf and wait until the wind stops blowing!