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"  My husband and I thought we had done everything possible when it came to sealing up our house and keeping the conditioned air inside. We replaced the old windows and caulked all the windows and doors, but I always felt cold right in front of the basement door and I couldn&amp;#039;t figure out why. Finally, I realized that it the gap at the bottom of the door to the basement was letting in lots of cold air, causing us to unnecessarily raise our thermostat. We went to Home Depot the next weekend and bought a door sweep. In case you&amp;#039;ve never heard of one, it&amp;#039;s a pretty simple device. It has a metal strip on the top that gets attached to the bottom of your door and a hard plastic strip that hangs down, touching the floor and closing any gaps between the door and the floor. You can also use a door draft stopper but I didn&amp;#039;t want something that you could see on the outside of the door. A door draft stopper usually consists of two fabric cylinders that sit on either side of the door. It was an amazingly simple solution to the problem! Door stops are sold in standard door sizes so it didn&amp;#039;t have to be cut and only required three screws for installation. Simply by having that barrier between the unconditioned space and the heated space, makes the whole area in front of the door warmer and allows us to keep our thermostat set at a reasonable temperature. Be sure to check out Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s other articles about getting ready for winter: Winterize Your Home, Winterize Your Yard and Winterize your Doors: Bring Back The Door Snake on thedailygreen.com. And don&amp;#039;t forget, if you&amp;#039;re in the New York City area be sure to come take a tour of the GHRI labs! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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