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    • How to get started
      • Finding Draughts
        • How to survey a building for draughts
        • Dry lined homes
        • Modern timber frame
        • Victorian terraced houses
        • Chalet Bungalow
        • Cross walled homes
        • Early cavity wall homes
        • Concrete panel houses
        • Solid stone and cob homes
      • Windows and doors
        • Front Door
        • Draughty roof windows
        • Trickle Ventilators
        • Trickle Ventilators
        • uPVC door problems
        • UPVC window seals
      • Redundant AirBricks
      • Floors
      • Loft and first floor ceilings
      • Loft Traps
      • Pet Flaps
      • What is going on under your bath?
    • Going Further
      • Help Reducing Energy Use
      • First Floor Void
      • Controlling your heating system
      • Heat loss from unused chimneys
      • Problems with Drylined Homes
        • Problems with dot and dabbed walls
        • Around openings in walls
        • Draughts in the first floor void
      • Types of damp in the home
      • Controlling condensation
      • Condensation mini case study
      • In House Winter Cooling Systems
      • Advanced Air Sealing
      • More Advanced
        • Upgrading to Underfloor Heating
        • Lead Pumping
        • Why so many flat roofs fail
        • Summer Condensation
    • Books
    • Videos
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Get Draughtproofing Support
  • Volunteer
  • Journal
    • Case study 2023 of a 1980’s house
    • Case Study Window Condensation 1960s House
    • A Case Study of a flat in 2022
    • Problem encountered during 2021/2022
    • DraughtBusters Winter Report Dec 2019
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3 September 20203 September 2020Uncategorized

What is going on under your bath?

Winter 2020 we saw this under a bath    There is daylight showing over (actually all round the bath waste pipe) the […]

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7 July 202021 July 2020Featured, News

Covid recovery package to include vouchers to help pay for energy saving retrofits

Up to £5000 to help pay for energy saving home improvements expected in government’s Covid-19 economic recovery plan.

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17 December 201917 December 2019Uncategorized

DraughtBusters Winter Report 2019

DraughtBusting activity continues with some work and a lot of consultancy outside the area. Some very very draughty new homes in the […]

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2 June 20192 May 2020DraughtBuster news, Featured, News

Lockdown Actions

Draughtproofing windows, doors, floors, ceilings, penetrations, round pipes, beside wires in ceiling roses etc

Replace heating controller and thermostat with a better form of control like a programmable room thermostat or smart controller like Hive or Nest.

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23 December 201723 December 2017DraughtBuster news, News

UPVC Door Problems

Remarkably this year 2017 we have seen for the first time a lot of problems with uPVC doors. In previous years we […]

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