We prepare the windows for winter. I must say that the main heat losses in the house occur through the balcony doors and window frames. In order to simply and quickly insulate the apartment, you need to take newspapers, roll the tubes out of them and put these tubes into the gaps between the slopes and the doors. However, you will achieve the best result using gaskets from a chemist's rubber tube. You can also use a cotton underwear cord. It is fixed with glue. Mistresses often use foam pads. But they are less effective, because they can not keep the density for a long time. There is another way. It is necessary to take paste from chalk and glue in an equal proportion. Then dilute with water until the putty is thick. Such paste should fill all the cracks along the entire perimeter of the window. In the spring, as soon as you open the windows, such a paste will fly off the frames. There is still an old proven method. Take the white paper. Such special paper for windows is sold by rolls. It is dense and very well adhered with the usual soap. In a large plate poured water, then you need to moisten the paper, and then walk on it with soap. After that, it is gently glued.
What you need to do to keep the heat in the house:
1. Do not block heaters. Warm air should move freely and warm the room.
2. Close tight curtains at night. This will prevent heat leakage.
3. To ventilate the room and not cool the room, apply "shock" ventilation. This means that it is necessary to air for a short time, but intensively. The air will have time to change, but the surfaces in the apartment will not cool.
4. It is necessary to replace all the cracked glass in the windows. Slots along the perimeter of the window should be covered with heat-insulating material. You can use a special sealant, but you can use ordinary medical cotton wool. Wide clerical tape can be glued on top of the cracks.
5. Install a heat reflective screen behind the battery. It can be a special material, called penofol, or you can take a simple foil, which you paste on plywood. This heat reflection will increase the temperature in the room by 1 degree.
6. The front door must also be insulated. If you insulate the gap between the door and the doorway, it will raise the temperature in the room by about two degrees.
7. Batteries should be painted in a dark color. It is proved that a dark smooth surface emits more heat by 10 percent.
8. If you have a room that is blown out from the outside on all sides, then you will have to take care of its warming. Using heat insulation materials, which are now on the market a lot, you solve your problem. All of them have low thermal conductivity, and therefore for thermal insulation of the premises perfectly suited. After warming, there may be problems with ventilation. Most modern apartments do not have ventilation holes, except for the bathroom and kitchen. But there are two ways out: to install a ventilation system in the house or better and to ventilate the room more often.
To keep the house warm, buy heaters.
1. Oil heater. The principle of its operation: inside the radiator there are two or three teens. They heat mineral oil. This oil has a very high boiling point. When heated, the oil gives off the heat of the entire metal surface of the heater. Such a heater very quickly warms the air and does not overdry it. The heater can have a thermostat. It will automatically switch off when heated to the set temperature. If there is such a thermostat, the heater can not be switched off at all. If the house has small children, then you have to be careful. The edges of this radiator heat very much, you can get burned.
2. Convector. With such a device, the cold air passes through the tan, heats up and through the grilles in the upper part of the casing already comes out warm. The heater housing also heats up, which is an additional source of heat. Such convectors can be mounted on a wall, or they can be mounted on legs. Such a device is relatively safe, because the heating element is inside the metal housing, and in the presence of a thermostat it can work continuously. However, its downside is that the heater will not be able to heat up the room quickly. Such convectors are more suitable for maintaining a certain temperature, and a hot shell is capable of damaging nearby furniture.
3. Thermal fan. Such heaters have a thin spiral. It heats up to very high temperatures. The air, heated up, spreads through the room with a fan. The room heats up instantly. The device is small, it is easy to move indoors. Such fan heaters are in demand especially in offices. However, it will dry the air in the room during operation. This has a negative effect on health. It is especially undesirable to use such heaters in the room where the asthmatic is. In addition, noise is heard during operation, and it is very tiring to use it around the clock.
4. Infrared quartz radiator. The quartz radiator does not heat the air, but the objects around. And already from the floor, walls, furniture, the room is heated. All surfaces that fall under the zone of action of the radiator give off their heat. And this time of work of the heater reduces, the electric power consumption decreases. From the point of view of economy, this type of heater is considered the most profitable. However, we must admit that infrared quartz emitters require not only professional editing, but also the most expensive ones.
The result. To calculate how much heat you need, calculate the area of the room. For a standard apartment with a ceiling height of 2, 75m, you need to buy a heater so that its power is not less than 1 kW for every 10 square meters of the room area. It is good if the heater has a temperature and power regulator. So, if you decide to purchase a heater, you need to understand for yourself why you are acquiring it. If the goal is to warm the legs under the table with warmth, then the fan heater will suit you. But it dries the air, and, moreover, disperses the dust. Infrared radiator works in some way according to the principle of "warm floors". If you set a goal - quickly heat the room, then you should pay attention to the oil coolers. But the safety in the first place is a convector heater, although the price bites. In general, the choice is yours.