Weekend Warrior: How to Make Your Doors Draft-Free with Weatherstripping
Unfortunately, a door's weather seals, if it has any at all, can rip, compress, bend, or wear out over time, leaving chilly winter air free to enter (or expensive air-conditioned air to leave). Fortunately, attaching new weather seals is a straightforward exercise, far cheaper and faster than installing a new door. And when you consider that even a tiny 1/8-inch gap around a typical entryway door is the equivalent of drilling a 5 ½-inch-diameter hole through an outside wall, closing that gap is well worth the effort. Any well-sealed door requires two components: weatherstripping, which covers the sides and top of the door, and a sweep, which fills the space between the threshold and the door bottom. Hardware stores and home centers sell an array of metal, foam, felt, and plastic products for this purpose. Tom prefers a weather seal system that includes a tubular silicone weatherstripping that fits against the doorstop and a twin-fin silicone sweep that fits beneath the door. Silicon makes an ideal weatherstripping because it's durable, soft, and has no "compression memory"; it remains tight as the door swells and shrinks. Read on here.
Weekend Warrior: 12 Quick Room Makeover Ideas You Can Do Now
Weekend Warrior: 12 Quick Room Makeover Ideas You Can Do Now. Try these 12 fast decorating ideas and you can renovate any room in a flash. Read on here.
Doolars for Scholars
We are so very proud of our Windermere office colleages who provided funds for the Cobalt Mortgage Dollars for Scholars Program. Our scholarship was awarded to a young man named Benjamin. Together with Cobalt's matching dollars, we all helped Benjamin make college possible. Congratulations Benjamin!
13 Amazing Uses for WD-40
Find out what this garage staple can do to make your life easier. Read on here.
Tired of receiving telephone books at your front door? Opt Out!
Want to stop delivery of useless Yellow Pages, White Pages, Phone Books? Opt out of Yellow Pages and stop the delivery of wasteful printed directories you don't want to receive at your door. Opt Out here.