Door Wind Stopper Views
When the temperature drops and the cold winds of winter blow, a draft door stopper is a great way to keep those winds at bay. This simple sewing project will not only keep your house warmer, but will also help keep those ever-rising electric bills under control. This pattern is for a 36-inch wide door. If your door is wider, adjust the measurements to match.
Drafty doors and windows rob homes of heat in the winter and air-conditioned air in the summer, costing us both money and comfort. Use a draft stopper to block the gap between doors and the floor, or windows and window sills. Creating a two-sided under-door stopper keeps the stopper moving with the door so you never have to replace the stopper and when you leave the house, the stopper is pulled back in to place.
Turn the wind-stopper right side out and replace the tubes. Slide the stopper beneath the door again, open end away from the hinge side of the door and one tube on each side of the door. Adjust the foam tubes evenly within the denim leg. At the open end, trim any excess material, leaving 2 inches of demin.
Elegantly simple and inexpensive, a door draft stopper or draft snake can be as simple as a rolled bath towel or blanket, placed along the bottom crack of doors and windows. This will help take a bite out of drafts, making rooms more comfortable, and will slow heat loss. In fact, drafts sap home energy use 5 to 30%, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, while 11% of a home's heat loss is through doors and windows.
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