Winter-Proof Your Windows: Tips for Cold Weather

hey guys Sean with American Window Concepts and today little tidbits of advice or information about how to weatherize your windows for the winner let's talk about that to make sure that your windows are good to go for the winter just go around the perimeter of the outside and just take a quick look on the outside make sure that the bead of cocking that's around the window is complete there's no brakes there's no there's no cracks in it if there is just make sure you fill those voids or if you have had them installed qu eye recently see if they'll come back out and reservice the windows and make sure that they are nice and tight for you if you do see the brakes in the caulking make sure that that gets taken care of that's number one you might have stucco there might be cracks in the stucco that could be an issue for you normally under stucco you'll have black building paper that will Shear off any water or anything else that's trying to get through inside of the house usually anytime you get your house painted they're going to go around and check for cracks and they're going to fill those anyways before they paint your house right and you can get polyurethane sealants you know at Lowe's Home Depot Ace you can get them anywhere let's say you've check the outside of your windows and everything looks good on the inside you're like okay well how do I keep some of this draft from coming in like air so I have an old replacement window that we took out recently and replace it with new windows so look at how thin this window is Right single piece of glass this little cold aluminum frame let's say this is what you're dealing with in this channel right there is the ability to pull this weather stripping out and slide new weather stripping in and by weather stripping I mean mole hair weather stripping okay no compression like that is Anin triple fin mole hair with the stripping so this stuff here is helping whenever it closes it seals against the main portion of the frame and it helps stop airf flow from coming in so anyways that's a few tips there's probably more tips that you can find online as well as to how you can weatherproof your windows um the other thing would be to paint them believe it or not this would be for wood windows you know you want to make sure that those wood windows you know they have sealant where it needs to be a lot of times you're not going to have any weather stripping and pretty much no place to really put weather stripping on those windows because of the way they were made and they really weren't thinking of weather stripping back then I hope this helps like I said go online there's so many different tricks and tactics you can use to weatherize your house I'm talking about a couple tricks you can do for your windows make a great day hey guys if you live in the Ventura or Long Beach area and are interested in a free in home estimate go to our website American window concepts.com and we'll reach back out to you as soon as possible if you guys find this information valuable and you want to continue to learn more about Windows and Doors subscribe to our Channel thank you so much