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[monicakm]

@Kachina624 

I know, and I'm excited!

[SilleeMee]

Arctic air is moving in this weekend here in Colorado. Below zero temps but no snow locally.

When it gets below zero around here I hang blankets over some of my windows. Even though I have good insulative windows, it's just too cold for any kind of window to handle.

[Kachina624]

@SilleeMee.  My nemesis is my sliding patio door.  There seems to be no way to prevent air from coming in.  It's a nice one, double paned glass with mini blinds between the panes, but it's drafty and it faces North so gets the cold winds.  I use a dog door panel but took it out when the cold weather hit.

[SilleeMee]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@SilleeMee.  My nemesis is my sliding patio door.  There seems to be no way to prevent air from coming in.  It's a nice one, double paned glass with mini blinds between the panes, but it's drafty and it faces North so gets the cold winds.  I use a dog door panel but took it out when the cold weather hit.

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@Kachina624 

I know what you mean about those sliding doors. So cold no matter what. In a house I once lived in, I made a quilted Roman shade for a slider to keep out the cold. It helped a lot. 

[Estellee]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

This cold front currently making it's  way across the country is vicious.  This morning in Albuquerque we awoke to a little snow, temperature in mid-20s and howling North wind.  Wind chill is 11°.  Tomorrow to be colder.  My dogs went out and just stood there wondering what was going on.

AND IT'S  COMING YOUR WAY!!!

@Kachina624  Look at that beauty, he or she isn't going anywhere 

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[rockygems123]

@Kachina624 

Brrrrrr it's going to be cold here the next few days yikes!  How 'bout you?

[Kachina624]

@rockygems123.  Pretty cold and windy here too but no snow expected and we need it.

[Kachina624]

@SilleeMee.  My parents had a second slider indstalled next to the first which worked great but I can't figure how the installer did it.  No room with mine.

In my youth I made a lined, pleated drapery for a slider.  What a job that was.

[rockygems123]

@SilleeMee 

Brrrrr.   The next 4 days will be something else.  I don't hang blankets but keep the wood slats closed, that seems to be ok.  I may try the blanket idea however as this is a long stretch.

Those Duraflames & Dysons will be cranking out the heat here too to help out the central heat.  

Do you use those?  Since I keep to a room at a time i.e. home office, then the family room I tend to use those more and have lowered the Xcel bill significantly in the last few years.  

[SilleeMee]

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@rockygems123 wrote:

@SilleeMee 

Brrrrr.   The next 4 days will be something else.  I don't hang blankets but keep the wood slats closed, that seems to be ok.  I may try the blanket idea however as this is a long stretch.

Those Duraflames & Dysons will be cranking out the heat here too to help out the central heat.  

Do you use those?  Since I keep to a room at a time i.e. home office, then the family room I tend to use those more and have lowered the Xcel bill significantly in the last few years.  

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@rockygems123 

Indeed it's gonna be cold! I have a couple of these infrared heaters but I have only used them with a generator when I lost electrical power to my house in windstorm. Those infrared heaters work nice but I don't really don't need to use them b/c my furnace does the job plus my house is very well insulated. It never gets cold inside thankfully. 

ETA- Our local weatherman mentioned blankets over windows when it gets below zero.