Every house has a handful of openings doing most of the leaking — a door with daylight under it, an attic hatch sitting on bare drywall, a trim joint the summer opened up. We find them and close them, before the forecast makes it urgent.
Not a checklist for its own sake. These four account for most of what you feel standing in a hallway in January.
The one you can usually see daylight under. New weatherstripping, a sweep that actually meets the threshold, strike and hinge adjustment so the door closes against the seal instead of past it.
Operable windows get fresh weatherstripping and the sash hardware checked so they close tight. Fixed glass gets the exterior joint re-caulked where the sun has chalked the old bead off.
A pull-down stair is a hole in the ceiling with a thin panel over it. Gasket it, cover it with an insulated hatch box, and latch it so it seals — one of the cheapest fixes in the house with the most obvious result.
Exterior caulk at trim joints and wall penetrations, vent covers where the local code allows them, gutters and downspouts cleared so meltwater has somewhere to go, and loose outdoor items put away.
We walk the exterior openings and the attic access with you, on a cool morning if we can get one. You'll see what we're looking at rather than taking our word for it.
Line by line, ordered by how much difference it makes — not by what's easiest to sell. Plenty of people do the top three and stop, and that's a reasonable way to spend the money.
Sealing work batches well, so most of a list lands in a single trip. Anything that needs a material ordered in gets called out on the estimate rather than discovered on the day.
If we find something outside handyman scope behind a hatch or under a threshold, you get told plainly, with what it is and who handles it. That's a note on the invoice, not an upsell.
There is no flat "winter package" figure, because a house with four leaky openings and a house with fourteen are not the same job. Here's what moves the number.
Which room is coldest, which door you can see daylight under, whether the attic access is a hatch or a pull-down stair. That's enough to start.
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