Eliminate Drafts in Your Beautiful Old Home

[caption id="attachment_8622" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sealing Drafts is as Easy as Adding a Bit of Insulation[/caption]

In older homes, the gorgeous woods doorframes and window frames can warp and sink, leading to drafty conditions and increased utility bills. But solving the air leaks in your home doesn't necessarily mean gutting out the original wood and putting in new frames. Sealing the leaks can be as easy as popping off the frames and sealing them with insulating foam.

As is the case with most remodeling projects, many of this house's walls were going to remain intact, so Tom had to consider how best to retrofit the energy-saving material without gutting the entire building—a job that would have blown the $250,000 renovation budget. Where the walls were open—in the revamped kitchens and bathrooms, for example, and in the attic stud bays that had never been covered—he went with his top insulation choice: polyicynene, a cream-colored liquid polyurethane that foams up and stiffens after pros spray it in place.

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