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The house is very drafty.
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Longstreth works out of a studio apartment attached to his house, a drafty Victorian in Echo Park.
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Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Since the furnace works to keep the home warm in the winter, and the air conditioner is primarily responsible for keeping the home cool in the summer, any drafty areas of the home where heat can flow freely through the walls reduce its overall efficiency.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025
Some of the most common repairs— leaky faucets, drafty windows, clogged drains—can be solved with simple DIY fixes that don’t require special (or potentially expensive) tools.
—Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2025
On a hot summer afternoon in a neighborhood just east of a city skyline with hardly any trees or green spaces, a mother tapes plastic over her drafty windows.
—Lenwood V. Long, Sr., Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Since the furnace works to keep the home warm in the winter, and the air conditioner is primarily responsible for keeping the home cool in the summer, any drafty areas of the home where heat can flow freely through the walls reduce its overall efficiency.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025
Some of the most common repairs— leaky faucets, drafty windows, clogged drains—can be solved with simple DIY fixes that don’t require special (or potentially expensive) tools.
—Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2025
On a hot summer afternoon in a neighborhood just east of a city skyline with hardly any trees or green spaces, a mother tapes plastic over her drafty windows.
—Lenwood V. Long, Sr., Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Drafty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drafty. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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