Yeah, I’ve had foam sneak up on me too—looked fine at first, then a day later the window’s just a hair off and the lock won’t catch. Backer rod and ca...

I’ve got solar tubes in my own place—one over the laundry nook and another in a weird, windowless corner of the kitchen. The change was honestly more ...

We swapped out our old blinds for double-cell honeycomb shades last winter, and honestly, the difference was pretty noticeable in our draftiest room. ...

Had nearly the same debate with myself a couple years back—cracked fiberglass frame in the laundry room. I tried patching it with epoxy and paint, thi...

I totally get the window attitude—mine used to rattle every time a bus rolled by, like it was protesting city life. Tried draft snakes and plastic fil...

I get the appeal of top-down/bottom-up shades, but honestly, in my last place I thought they’d be the magic fix and...meh, not quite. They did let me ...

That’s exactly how I felt after tackling my 1918 double-hungs last winter. Every window was a surprise—one even had a bird’s nest inside the weight po...

Yeah, that’s the kicker—when we swapped our old wood windows for new triple panes, the house suddenly felt stuffy and we started seeing water on the s...

Those magnetic panels are a game changer for drafty old places, at least in my experience. I put them up in my uncle’s 1940s hunting cabin last winter...

That 1974 Sears catalog insulation cracks me up—my place had a stack of ancient TV Guides stuffed in the crawlspace, so I guess that was a thing back ...