All:
We have a sort of three-season room on the north side of our house. It faces off into a yard surrounded by privacy fences and a couple garages. The room is sort of unique. It started life as just an open deck. We had a pre-fabricated aluminum room added shortly after we took up residence here. This room is all aluminum and glass with two aluminum doors and many sliding windows. During winter we use this room as a sort of mud room, and it's where we groom our dogs as well. Because of that, when it was constructed, the deck floor was taken up, and an aluminum screen was put in place, and the deck flooring was then replaced on top of this screen. Our idea was that snow from boots and shovels and dogs, and spillage from our fountain etc. would just drain through the cracks between the decking, an bugs couldn't come through either and that part's worked well for us. We've been having snow here, more snow than anybody's seen in twenty or thirty years. It blows here too, and there's quite a bit of snow piled and drifted around this three season room. To keep it more or less useable, we have one of those Sun Twin 5,000 BTU heaters there, and typically, it keeps the temperature between 20 an 25 degrees above the outdoor temperature. This year though, it's been keeping the room about 30 or 35 degrees above the outside temperature. I imagine a lot of this is because of the snow around the foundation. There are several gaps that allow air to circulate pretty freely under thestructure. So, it might be a good idea to block these gaps, though probably only during the Winter months. Does anyone know if there might be say, bladders, that I could fill with a compresser that would form themselves in a way so as to fill gaps ofa few incheshere or ther, and if so, what is the correct term for them? Thanks in advance for any input on this. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
