There is really nothing that can prepare one for a Saskatchewan winter, but E and I are doing our best to be as prepared as possible this year. We broke down and turned the heat on in the house this week. We already turned it on for a few days during a cold-spell in September, but the weather actually stopped sucking for the rest of the fall, and the heat has been off-again until now. The weather is still quite nice for mid-October, but it's just a little too chilly to go without the furnace on these days.
This will be our fourth winter in this house. While it has some good attributes, the windows are NOT one of them. During the winter, the house always feels cold because of our single-paned, drafty, POS windows. They are bad enough that they routinely freeze from the inside. And the heat bills are atrocious. So, we decided to seal all the crappy windows with plastic this year to see if it helps.
It only took us about 2 hours to seal up 8 windows, and it was actually kind of fun. The plastic is actually shrink-wrap that you stick to the window frame with double-sided tape and then heat-shrink with a hair dryer. It amused us anyway.
We'll see if it makes any difference in comfort in the house or the heating bills!
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