Our draught proofing solutions are designed to prevent uncontrolled ventilation in your home. Ventilation is both necessary and desirable and remains the householder’s choice to control.

Our solutions do not inhibit the operation of doors, windows, fireplaces and ceiling exhaust fans, allowing you to keep your home ventilated as you please.

Its just a matter of semantics.  Draught stopping or draught stoppers is the expression most people use when looking for a solution to reduce or stop the amount of air that passes into and out of their home.  Draught Proofing is becoming a more popular term but basically means the same thing – preventing uncontrolled ventiliation. 

Draught proofing works by identifying and then blocking the gaps where cold winter air enters your home, pushing out your warm heated air that your heating system has just created.   The constantly replacement of intentional warm air with outside cold air makes your heating system work that much harder by having to continuously heat your home.  The opposite occurs in summer – leaving you constantly struggling to create a comfortable temperature in your home. 

Draught proofing involves sealing unintended openings with specialised materials such as door perimeter seals (such as draught dodgers), door raught excluders (such as brush, sweep or bottom door seals), window seals , chimney draught stoppers, exhaust fans covers, sealing unused heating vents, sealing wall vents and sealing gaps between surrfaces (such as floorboards to skirting boards, above windows and around door architraves).  

That answer depends upon how long you want your draught proofing to last.  Short term solutions include plastic stick on weather stripping, sticky foam seals around doors and chimneys balloons.  Whilst these solutions may work in the short term, they will not last any length of time, so you will end up trying to solve the same problem and will have generated landfill in the meantime.  Long term, permanent solutions include all weather timber or solid aluminium door perimeter seals, aluminium door seals, chimney draught stoppers and purpose made kits manufactured to solve specific issues (such as Goodbye Heating Vents to seal unused floor heating ducts).  

1. Yes – and no.  Skirting boards are designed to provide an aesthetically pleasing transition between your floor and your wall.   Skirting boards can help to reduce draughts in the home by acting as a physical barrier between the floor and the wall and can help to limit the flow of air.  However, skirting boards alone will not be sufficient to stop all draughts coming up from your sub-floor.  The best way to seal skirting board gaps can be found here.  Click for video 

Wall vents are open to the outside as well as the inside of your home. The external wall vents are to allow humidity management of the wall cavity.  The internal wall vents were originally designed to exhaust carbon monoxide from burning gas inside your home.  Sealing wall vents is NOT recommended for homes where gas is being used inside (such as for cooking or heating).

Often you can see straight through from the inside to the outside.  That is a seriously large amount of air exchange and will prevent your home from ever being energy efficient.   

So, yes you can draught proof wall vents by sealing them over (as long as there is no gas burning in your home). There are several ways to doing this

1. Complete removal and replaster – requires a plasterer or good handy skills 
2. Plastic stick on vents – quick, cheap but a bit ugly

Sealing the vents with Ultraclear – which keeps your vents but stops the draught.

Make sure the vents are very clean with no residual dust before sealing them.

Here is a video on how to seal your wall vents.  

Once sealed (and as with any draught proofing measure), with increasing air-tightness the onus is on the occupants to ventilate by opening windows when necessary for air quality.