Locate indoor air leaks

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Locate indoor air leaks

by Patricia Mayville-Cox (Subscribe to Patricia Mayville-Cox's posts)
Nov 30th 2007 @ 6:00AM

Check for indoor air leaks around your electrical outlets, switch plates, windows, baseboards, doors, fireplace dampers, attic hatches and wall or window air conditioners.

Gallery: Home Heat Suckers - Common areas we lose heat

Here's information from the EEEE on how to detect air leaks at home and it involves incense. Yes, this is your government telling you to light up the incense. In summary:

Turn off the furnace on a cool, but windy day and shut all windows and doors.
Turn on all exhaust fans, such as bathroom fans.
Light a stick of incense and pass it around the sites of common leaks. If the smoke gets sucked out, you've got a draft.

You can try this without turning off your furnace also. In addition, if you can shut your doors or windows on a piece of paper and pull it out without tearing it, you've got a leak.

Now that you've found all the leaks in your house, here's how to seal them up!

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