For the last 6 years, I’ve sort of just told myself that residing in a spacious, older home just came with drafts.
This was for sure a total cop out though. What I was genuinely doing was trying to find plausible deniability for not doing something about the heating comfort in my home, and my wifey & I fell in like with this new home almost the instant both of us walked in the door. This was the locale both of us wanted & were prepared to do the renovations that were left to do. The previous owner had sort of started updating the outdated new home however wasn’t able to finish before she simply had to sell the house. This ended up being great for us as both of us were able to negotiate the price since we’d be doing stuff like replacing the commercial Heating & Air Conditioning. But the former owner of the new home did have all the windows upgraded with double paned, energy efficient, current windows. That was a plus for sure. However, it turns out that replacing those windows was also the root cause of our heating problem. The people I was with and I had the latest in residential Heating & Air Conditioning installed shortly after both of us got the keys. And that came with a genuinely great gas furnace… Yet, no matter how great the gas furnace is, it was a losing battle against a home that had a immense problem. Turns out that multiple of those windows were not properly installed & had no insulation. I found this out when I finally decided to do some Winter prep on the new home last fall, however once I had those windows redone, both of us have appreciated a cozy Winter with less demand on the gas furnace.