How To Find The Causes Of The Cold And Insulate An Old Apartment

2023 Author: Philip Bishop | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 07:54

If with the onset of cold weather the temperature in your apartment tends to zero, then you have a choice - to make all rooms with heaters and wrap themselves in a blanket or thoroughly insulate your living space. Let us consider in order a list of possible problems of heat loss in an apartment.

Common causes of coldness in an apartment

1. The first and most common reason is cracks in window frames. If you do not have the opportunity to put sealed double-glazed windows, then seal the gaps between the frames yourself. To do this, you can use foam rubber, paper or pieces of fabric. Take one of the listed materials, roll tightly and place in the gaps between the frame and the window opening. Seal the cracks on top with strong construction tape. This will significantly reduce the flow of cold air into the apartment, but will not provide complete thermal insulation.

2. If you live in a panel house, then the second common cause of cold in an apartment may be poor-quality joints between the plates. Your management company is obliged to seal the external seams. But, as a rule, the procedure for filling out and signing an application for such work can take a very long time.

3. If you want to solve this problem quickly, you can contact a construction company engaged in sealing joints between panels using the method of industrial mountaineering.

4. However, even all of the above measures may not be enough to insulate a corner apartment on the 7-14th floor. Wind gusts at this height are much more intense, and the water in the heating system, rising from the first floor, has time to cool down considerably. Therefore, you need to thoroughly insulate not only windows and interpanel seams, but also the walls themselves. Sandwich panels can be used for wall insulation.

5. You can fix the sandwich panels on cold walls inside the apartment. This is a relatively new, but easy-to-process construction raw material. Besides, it is the most economical option, because you yourself carry out all construction work and pay only for the material. But the thickness of the sandwich panel can reach 25 cm. This means that the area of the room along the entire length of the wall will decrease by exactly that amount.

6. If you are not ready to part with a part of the usable area of your apartment, you can contact a construction company, and the sandwich panels will be fixed outside. This is an expensive procedure, but at the same time, it is the only effective method for insulating an old apartment on the top floor.

For more complex and incomprehensible reasons, it is possible to detect cold places in an apartment using a thermal imager that can easily determine areas of heat loss. The only negative is that this device costs a lot of money, however, you can call a service that will give an exhaustive answer about cold zones in the apartment and about places where heat is lost.

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