Useful tips to conserve heat in the house

Before you close the windows for winter, clean the glass solutions prepared from water and salt.

In addition to traditional means for sealing windows for the winter, you can use composition, prepared from chalk, boiled water and wallpaper glue.

Instead of putty you can use newsprint paper, soaked in water. After drying, it will long retain strength.

More reliable than all the cracks to cover up the solution made from flour mixed with river sand, flour weight easily sticks to the tree, but the spring is easily washed off with water.

Completely closes gap foam, and air in the foam pores serves as additional insulation. Gloss over the winter cracks in the windows can also be a pasta made from construction gypsum (plaster) and the Cretaceous, some retards seizure of gypsum (2 pieces of plaster, 1 part of chalk and a little water); paste invisible on white frames, it erased the excess with a wet rag, and spring enough to open the window, and the dry plaster is easy to fly with the bindings.

Instead of plaster and foam rubber profiles can be used: they are flexible enough fit every curve of the frame, and the windows can be opened and closed at any time. Rubber profiles can be replaced by a woolen cord, cloakroom cloth or braid.

For thermal insulation of the balcony door ideal any thick material (eg, batting), which you can attach the right and left of the balcony door with hooks or nails. To keep the muzzle at the front door, you can nail it on the perimeter of the old rubber hose.

For the bond cracked glass you'll need hairpin and 2 buttons with two holes: the hairpin put one button, push a pin through the crack and put the second button.

At the time of very severe frosts can try this method of insulation of windows: a piece of polyethylene film, cut the size of the window, attach the thin rods or buttons to the frame. Top, leave a gap of 10-15 cm for air circulation.

For the thermal insulation of windows can use foam, the remainder of the packages. He does not miss the cold and long retains its white color. Cuts foam into strips with a sharp knife or a hot soldering iron. The bandwidth should be somewhat larger than the width of the gap that was part of tight foam.

Putty can be stored for a long time in the paper soaked in oil or water. To the new glass is not cracked in the frost or during the opening of windows, the size of the glass must be reduced by 1-2 mm.

To make it easier to apply putty on the window, divide it into small balls, roll them flagellum length of 5 cm, zamazhte joint between the frame and glass and putty prigladte with a kitchen knife. During the winter should occasionally check to see whether the cracked cement, not whether it fell off the pieces, otherwise it will leak heat. Cracked, but a solid putty can not replace. Suffice it to rub into cracks and fissures fresh putty, cooked a little thinner than usual. After drying over putty should be painted frame paint.

If the plaster was left behind, but did not come off, it can be strengthened. It is necessary to drill the reservoir and the syringe to fill the cavity of glue (PVA, bustilat, CMC, etc.), then put a piece of plywood and gently pull your through racks and wedge.

In order for firewood stoves are not dropping the air temperature inside the heated space because of the downward pressure of the air, passing into the furnace with an open flap, you can draw air through a pipe from the unheated basement to grate podduvalu. To do this, all the cracks in the doors, oven, the metal plate carefully fluff. In the inlet pipe to provide bolt.

In the furnace instead of the lower doors (cleaning and ash) can be left vacant openings. At the same time during the furnace firebox opening should be tightly closed with a brick. If you have an apartment heated with wood or use a fireplace, you need to properly dry and store the harvested wood. Dried them in fragmented form, adding rows. Individual rows of wood are placed perpendicular to the previous one. In this case, the wood will dry faster.

To the premises there is no loss of heat, do not place furniture near heating devices.