{"id":37020,"date":"2020-09-23T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37020"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:21:04","slug":"door-draft-stopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/door-draft-stopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Door Draft Stopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insulating one\u2019s dwelling cuts energy consumption and expenses while boosting comfort. One inexpensive component of such insulation is <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/door-draft\">door draft stoppers<\/a>. They can be attached not only to outer doors but also to those inner doors that lead to the most lived-in sections, so their heat (in winter) and cooling (in summer) don&#8217;t\u00a0get lost.<\/p>\n<p>The stoppers consist of two parts, both of which are cut with scissors to the proper width before mounting: A door-mounted, adhesive-backed, semi-rigid strip of velcro; A semi-rigid strip of mating\u00a0velcro flexibly connected along its length to a foam-filled draft-stopper fabric sleeve that rests on the doorsill.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this type of stopper because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>its lower edge doesn\u2019t catch on anything it encounters when the door is opened, such as a doormat or rug (it glides over them noiselessly)<\/li>\n<li>it attaches easily\u2014with adhesive instead of screws<\/li>\n<li>the sleeve-half attaches to the door-half with velcro\u2014meaning that perfect initial alignment isn\u2019t necessary.<\/li>\n<li>The foam also provides some soundproofing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has one hidden gotcha. It must be cut to 1\/2 inch less than the width of the door, leaving a gap at the end near the hinge. This is so that the tube won\u2019t jam up against the molding when the door is opened. But the gap can be covered with a cut-to-size piece off the leftover adhesive-backed strip\u2014a bit of a pain. (This is something I realized after I\u2019d thrown my leftovers out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-sided door insulator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37023,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions\/37023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}