My efforts at both prepping the house for Winter and finding the source of a terrible draft were weak at best.
- I’m just not all that motivated to do stuff around the house on my days off.
After spending all week inside the commercial HVAC of my work, I want to just chill inside the central air conditioning of my home. So Winter prep was for other people for a long time. But that has changed thanks to the spiking costs of heating a home and inflation in general. Our income just isn’t going as far as it once did. So throwing away money on heating costs had to end. That’s how I ended up doing a bit of research on just how best to prepare my home for Winter. It wasn’t too tough as I just went online and found a mountain of lists and videos to get me started. Still, I wasn’t too pleased to have to get off my butt and outside on the weekend. Yet, I sure wasn’t paying anyone to do a job that I was perfectly capable of handling. So out I went and it really wasn’t all that tough to put a good seal on my home. However, I had to get creative when it came to finding that draft source. I ended up using a thermal gun to find where the heating was leaving the house later in the Fall. But once I got that thing sealed up, I was ready for Winter. We definitely saved hundreds of dollars on heating costs this Winter and I’m now a believer when it comes to Winter prep for the house.