There is a draft. Where the fuck is it coming from?!

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I'm in bed sick, so it's not the vent for the back boiler. The windows are all shut, as are the curtains, and there is a curtain on the front door too. All seals etc are fine as far as I can see, but the windows are fairly old.

Attic is insulated, loft hatch isn't, and there is a slight hole in the ceiling. But no windows in the attic, and as far as I'm aware no obvious breeze in the attic.

I can feel a very clear breeze. How do I find where it is coming from 😩🥶

Gap under front door? Round windows, any faulty catches?

There was a guy on the news last week who was checking his house with a thermal imager thing, and the blue areas showed up the draughts, front door was the culprit, even with a draft excluder. It looked a useful little gadget, I wonder if you can buy or hire them?

I found the Flir cameras for sale, but for £500

I'll stick a link in for a crowdfund 😉😂

My guess atm is the pipes in the bathroom. Shutting the bathroom door seems to help a bit, but not a magical fix. Finally feeling well enough to be out of bed, but still not quite up to traipsing round with a candle! Couple more days and I should be able to find the answer. Then I have a few rolls of duct tape to tape up wherever it's coming from

We have wall to wall carpets and good underlay, I’ve spent the last couple of years in our new house wondering why my feet are constantly freezing. When I was painting the skirting boards recently I was shocked to be able to feel a draughty blast. Air comes through the air brick and up through the floorboards and then up under the skirting boards.

Better than our last house. The first winter we were there I got in bed and could feel cold air on my nose!

Quite a lot gets under skirting boards. My next door NEIGHBOUR, ffs, smokes heavily and the smoke was leaking into my son's bedroom. It stank, I had to get expanding foam, push the carpet back and fill a massive gap between the floorboards and the skirting. Don't ask me how it crept between houses, but it did. The older the house the worse the problem I guess - my floorboards are in a shocking state.

Your atti will be very airy so it will be gping bathroom to atto or vice versa.
I put isolating tape around loft hatch, the draught proof thick strips and it helped. Bathroom is ridiculous. I think it's from underfloorboards/around pipes.

I've already planned to duct tape the hole shut too - will teach the landlord not to leave problems unfixed! 😂

Next time it's breezy outside, go around your window frames with a feather & see if there's even a tiny bit of leakage. I did this and was shocked how badly draughty my double glazing is. I put that foam on a roll around the edges.

I used an infrared thermometer to check around a cold room (one of those gun type ones that lots of people bought because of covid). I checked the temperatures of walls, door frames, skirting boards etc. It helped me track many cold spots. Loft hatch was a biggy and the fan vent.

Aha! I have possibly managed to get somewhere!
Took my bathroom nets down to give them a wash, and the double glazing has blown on one of the windows...