What do you do to weatherize your place?

Well last year HEAP sent someone in to blow insulation into the attic, so that helped, I have a a/c unit that is the bedroom window and it has some drafts around it, we usually take it out each year, but this year going to leave it in and just cover all of the window with plastic. Really no place to store it. Need to caulk some of the windows, it is really the landlords place to do it, but when I do it myself I find that it gets done. Need one then draft things for under the door too. Really need plastic on the windows in the living room, but I have to have some source for fresh air.

we don't have snow here in my country but still it gets pretty cold starting november. the wind gets colder. though i think in your standard that is not really cold enough for you. but the weather here if it gets cold, i need to wear warmer clothes as i am not really used to cold weather like when the wind gets really cold.

well, I need to run weather stripping around the back door again - don't know WHY it keeps coming off of course, we ARE talking Texas where we are far more concerned about keeping out the heat than the cold

We just moved in here last September so we weren't real sure how the house would be during the winter and it wasn't pretty. Even though it got really cold in our area last year I still thought the house was too cold for the winter. We used our regular gravity furnace heater as well as four different small electric heaters throughout the house but you always have to worry about blowing a fuse that way which happened a few times. So this year we decided that we were going to try and see what we could do to help keep the cold out this winter. We went and bought thick plastic and put over every window in the house, which I think will help because we have the older wooden window and they alone bring in a bunch of cold drafts. Then we went and also bought two of the door stoppers for both doors which I already put down and they seem to be helping already. We didn't really do much more than that besides our electric heaters and even though it hasn't reached below freezing it does seem a bit warmer in here so far....lets just hope it stays like that when it begins to get really cold.

We took the air conditioner out of the window. We put the storm windows back on the windows. My husband clean our furnace and ducts and put a new filter in it. About 6 years LEAP had a company blow insulation into the walls and attic and that helped alot.

I see a lot of people in my apartment building putting plastic on their windows. I don't blame them, we have electric heat in the building and the bills can be ridiculous. But I cannot bring myself to do it! I really like having space and windows and being able to see out, and one thing I found really hard to get used to when I moved from England to America is having screens on the windows. I miss being able to open the window and lean out, though I do appreciate the defense against insects! So for me, to have the screens and then have plastic would kind of make me feel like I'm in prison! We are moving in February so I am hoping we can find somewhere with big windows, so I won't mind so much, and I would like a window in the bathroom this time...lol

Actually we don't have any problems keeping the house warm. A few years ago we sided the house and had all new windows installed. Not only does it keep drafts out, our heating bill is quite a bit less than the years prior to installing the new windows. If the wind blows from the south and we get a slight draft at the bottom of the front door, I will put a towel down to block it but can only remember doing that once in the last several years.

i am hoping that my hubby will do this since it always seems to be cold in our house and i dont want to turn up the heat any. we do wear sweaters around the house but still, if we could stop the cold air from coming in, it would be great.

Plasticizing windows is the first & foremost! Then I build a little insulated house with another door that is like a tunnel for my dog/cat door. Clean the chimney, replace the seal on the wood stove door....and the biggie is to make sure that the Woodshed is FULL, as all my heat is wood! One of the biggest things that I have to do (already done) is to remove all my down pipes, from their underground drainage, add 50 or 60 feet of hose, and divert all the winter rains away from the house! I, quite a few years back, spent a fortune getting a "bobcat" in to dig up all the perimeter drainage...put in NEW drain rock...but never helped, my basement still either flooded or got very damp. So now I just divert all the water away! Another thing, that I haven;t done yet is to sift all the wood ashes (from what I have saved)...as I use them for sanding the driveway....works like a charm, and is way more enviro friendly...as I put wood ashes in my compost too! Almost ready...but I DON'T want to say, Let is snow, let it snow...LOL!

I put the plastic over my windows every winter - it makes such a big difference with the old windows in my house. I go around and make sure all the windows are closed properly. Take out the AC and cover the hole with siding and insulation for the winter. The door i rarely use i actually take a door sized hunk of styrofoam and put in the door. To seal off the draft from that door. Often in the winter i also place towels at the base of each outside door. This year i intend to chaulk around the edges of the bedroom windows and bathroom window.

We close all windows except for just alittle bit open in the evenings sometimes. Close blinds to help keep the wind and air out. Turn the fan off and heat on. Put something up against the A/C so no air can get in. Close the bathroom so it is warm when we go into it. That is about it.