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That $600 heating bill woke me up to a drafty basement door
I paid $600 last January for heat and half of it was going right outside through a gap under the basement door. A $15 weather strip fixed it in 10 minutes, anyone else find a stupid simple fix after throwing money at something?
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carr.elliot25d ago
Used to think weatherstripping was one of those things that didnt really matter that much. I mean how much could a little gap really cost you right? Then I actually sealed my attic door last winter and my heating bill dropped almost $100 the next month. Went from a doubter to a total believer real quick. Its amazing how a tiny crack or gap can just bleed heat out all day and you never think twice about it until you actually see the proof in the numbers.
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mark_price25d ago
Right? Its funny how you convince yourself a little draft is just normal house stuff. @carr.elliot you basically proved that attics are just big money vacuums sucking your cash right out. I did the same thing around my front door last month and my wife keeps joking that I should do it for a living now. It feels like such a small dumb thing until you get that bill and its all the proof you need. All those little gaps add up to a whole lot of wasted heat and money its kind of embarrassing how long it took me to figure that out.
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wells.karen24d ago
My buddy Jim replaced the rotted trim around his back door last fall and his December bill was $80 less than the year before. @mark_price that's the same thing he said about feeling embarrassed it took him that long to figure out.
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