For the last six years, I’ve sort of just told myself that living in a spacious, older home just came with drafts. This was for sure a total cop out though. What I was really doing was trying to find plausible deniability for not doing something about the heating comfort in my home. My wife and I fell in love with this house almost the instant we walked in the door. This was the place we wanted and were prepared to do the renovations that were left to do. The previous owner had sort of started updating the old house but wasn’t able to finish before he simply had to sell the house. This ended up being good for us as we were able to negotiate the price since we’d be doing stuff like replacing the commercial HVAC. But the former owner of the house did have all the windows replaced with double paned, energy efficient, modern windows. That was a plus for sure. However, it turns out that replacing those windows was also the root cause of our heating problem. We had the latest in residential HVAC installed shortly after we got the keys. And that came with a very good gas furnace. Yet, no matter how great the gas furnace is, it was a losing battle against a home that had a big problem. Turns out that several of those windows were not properly installed and had no insulation. I found this out when I finally decided to do some winter prep on the house last fall. Once I had those windows redone, we have enjoyed a cozy winter with less demand on the gas furnace.