My walls give off this complete coldness from outside, how can I stop it from doing that?

Question

It's like I draft from my walls and its freezing I get no heat in my room. I use my portable heater and when I get into bed I freeze because it's next to the wall and window. I moved my bed away from the wall but I still feel a draft and I want to stop it so I'm not always frozen or so the heat can stay in my room. Help please

Edward- I've been thinking the same thing and it realllllllly reallllly sucks.....its enough that's its cold outside....i dont want to be freezing in my own room

Answer 1

Walls are not properly insulated. In the short term, hang blankets on the walls for an extra barrier. You should be able to find some blankets or comforters at a resale shop cheaply. Won't look the best, but will help warm it up. Duct tape around the edges if you want to seal.

In the long term, you just need to price doing the insulation. It might be cheaper to redo from the outside or the inside. All depends on how the house was built, how old, etc. Some houses in my area have what my husband calls gypboard on the outside. It is a cheap black flimsy board that we wanted to get rid of. So, we insulated some from the outside so we could put plywood up where that was. Rooms that we renovated, we insulated from the inside since we were removing sheetrock or in our case panelling and plywood, anyway. Yeah, gypboard on the outside, plywood on the inside . . . whose idea what that?

Good luck with the project.

Answer 2

Hello, Sounds like your window may be the problem. If it's an Aluminium window or has a single pane of glass it's probably the source of the cold. Try getting a kit at the hardware store that comes with some double stick tape and plastic and it will keep the draft out and make it like a double pane window. (http://www.duckproducts.com/winterize/windowkits.asp) The other thing you can try is buy some foam gaskets for any outlets or switches on the outside wall.

Answer 3

You can buy a room sized piece of remnant indoor-outdoor carpet and nail it up on that wall. The foam backing will block any drafts and as an added bonus, it will also make that wall soundproof. The carpet looks pretty good on the wall if you install it very carefully and make sure that it's all straight and goes all the way to the corners.

Call a couple of carpet stores and ask them if they have any good sized remnants. If that doesn't work, call some installers. A lot of times they have remnants. If you can't find anything in your price range, you could try to piece a few large pieces together and make a really cool geometrical wall design.

Answer 4

From the way you describe the problem it appears your walls are not insulated. Your best bet is to contact a firm which uses the insulation you blow in between the inner and outer wall. Once those spaces have been properly insulated you should feel no drafts.Also consider laying insulation between your ceiling joists to prevent heat from escaping. If you do not have storm windows, you might want to consider storm window kits to cover your glass areas for the winter. This will also make the house warmer since much heat is also dissipated when windows are cold.. Remove in spring.

Answer 5

There are vapor barrier paints available. Glidden used to make one called Insul-Aid. There are others out there by other manufacturers. This should help seal your walls but the lack of insulation and the presence of windows are probably the cause of your problem. Go to the hardware store and get an inside window insulating kit. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Sounds like you have no insulation in the outside wall.

Simple, cheap and quick way is to put 1" rigid insulation between you and the wall. (temporary fix)

Proper way is to remove sheetrock place proper insulation of R-13 value ( for 3 1/2 " walls) between the studs cover with a vapor barrier and then replace with new sheetrock.

I hope you stay warm.

Answer 7

Your walls need to be dry-lined get some advice on this. Works OK in the UK.