Draught proof doors

• Draught strip doors with self-adhesive flexible strips or nail-on brush or rubber strips.
   

• Use acrylic sealant or decorator’s caulk to fill external and internal gaps around door frames.
   

• Fit a draught flap or brushes inside the letter box opening.
   

• Add secondary glazing over any single glazed panels.
   

Before draught stripping …
 

• Use acrylic sealant or decorator’s caulk to fill external and internal gaps around door frames.

Savings — draught stripping [Savings information from EST]

Typically, draught-stripping windows and doors could save £20 each year for a gas-heated semi-detached house and will cost about £75, or £45 if you install it yourself — so it takes about 2 — 4 years to cover your costs.

Grants

Scottish Executive Warm Deal grant scheme — draught stripping for windows and doors is included in the scheme for people aged 60 or over and for people on some income related benefits.

The Scottish Executive has appointed Scottish Gas to run the Warm Deal scheme until 2008.

Go to www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/people/
olderpeople/homeimprovements

Scottish Gas, Freepost, SCO 4421, Edinburgh, EH6 0BR.
Freephone: 0800 316 6009.

Choose the right type of draught stripping:

Self-adhesive rubber strip for sealing around doors.

Brush strips for sliding patio doors and on the back of the bottom of wooden doors.

Screw-on brush or rubber wiper kits for external doors.

Compression threshold strips for the floor under external doors.