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2. 20 Affordable Ways to Prepare Your Home for Extreme Weather - AOL

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   Keep air from seeping in cracks along your windows and doors with inexpensive weather stripping. These seals, which you can find at your local hardware store, can also cut down on your heating and ...

3. Weatherstripping - Wikipedia

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   The materials used in door weatherstripping are thresholds, a piece of material (either a sweep or a J-hook) to match the door to the threshold, and the actual weatherstripping itself. Doors can usually be divided into private homes and commercial properties. Some of these doors receive custom weatherstripping at the factory. Pre ...

4. The Best Way To Keep Spiders Away From Your Home ... - AOL

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   Check for holes in screens and gaps in weather stripping around doors and windows. Replace worn door sweeps, and the brushy piece on the bottom of exterior doors, says Gray.

5. How to Seal Up Drafty Windows (and Lower Your Heating Bill) - AOL

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   Cut a piece of adhesive-backed foam tape weather stripping to the correct length. Peel off the backing and press onto the bottom of the lower sash and the top of the upper sash. Close and lock the ...

6. Weatherization - Wikipedia

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   A weatherized building is protected from the outside elements in order to maximize energy efficiency. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Weatherization (American English) or weatherproofing (British English) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption ...

7. Draught excluder - Wikipedia

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   A door draught excluder is placed at the bottom of a door to cover the gap located at the threshold. [1] [2] In the Victorian era these draught excluders would be sausage-shaped and made from fabric stuffed with sawdust. [3] Tubular sand-filled fabric draught excluders are commonly referred to as "door snakes" in Australia.