Do people still use draft excluders? I remember in the 90s my grandparents had them, but struggling to remember seeing them since.

by BigBlueMountainStar

36 comments

  1. In the house where I spent the first 12 years of my life, we had a door sausage in the living room. That place was rather draughty and cold in the winter, and the long thing covering the gap at the bottom of the living room door certainly helped a bit.

  4. Modern designs mean that cold drafts under wooden external doors are much rarer now, so draught excluders probably aren’t needed as much.

    My mum has one for her kitchen door, but it’s the original wonky wooden door which opens to an unheated utility room. She also likes animals and it’s the shape of a stretched out badger.

  5. got to remember they was more common in older housing where things had swelled/shrunk leading to gaps that caused drafts.

    nowhere near as much an issue now with the materials we use to build doors/windows where they would form in the past. we still have the original door on 1 of the bedrooms and it has a huge gap at the bottom where you can see how the door has warped and shrunk a bit over time.

  7. They just use them to soak up all the condensation from their windows these days.

  8. Modern uPVC doors seal all around so they don’t have a draft at the bottom. Problem is they have a fucking draft all over depending on how well they’re made. Thankfully we’ve got a small entrance hall with another door, but I’d be looking at replacing our front door all together if it opened straight into the front room.

  12. Yep, rolled up an old towel, into a leg cut off an old pair of jeans and sewed it up

  13. Yes. I like to keep my bedroom window open, meanwhile people who are not me like the house to be warmer than that. Thus I have a caterpillar that lives at the base of my door in winter to keep the coolness within my room.

  14. Yes. Live in a rented flat in a large building, and there is a massive gap at the bottom of my front door. Helps to block out the light from the hallway, and also muffles noise.

  15. We’ve got awful snakes. I want one like in the picture.

  16. We had one shaped like a dog that our real-life dog would attack and/or hump.

  17. Yes, however 95% of the time its the doggo’s plaything.

  19. I got angry at mine when I tripped over it and throw it out.

  22. I just bought my friend one for her Victorian cottage, she lives in a very rural place that is up high in Scotland. She has draughts.

  23. In my traditional tenement flat in Edinburgh nothing fits properly so we have them on our various doors. I’ve also made duct tape draught excluders around the shared hallway doors

  24. My rented house has a huge gap under the front door, so I bought one in the shape of a giraffe. It’s my giraffe excluder. 

  25. We sell loads at work, like tons of them. Normally to younger folk too, it’s not an old person thing.

    The Range that is.

  26. I see them for sale from time to time, often in garden centres for some reason. There’s a cute one shaped like a row of sheep that I’d quite like, but I don’t have any draughts to exclude.

  27. When I was a child I thought they were called Giraffe excluders, and I couldn’t understand why everyone was worried about giraffes getting under their doors

  28. Everyone’s been using them since Ronny started slapping them in under the wall for Barca

  30. My boss uses them. He keeps telling me “Stop sending me drafts, I want to see the final report!”

  31. Draft is a rough copy before the final version. Draught is a breeze.

  33. Snek the excluder earns his living in our household. He’s a bit more floppy than he should be because he is also used as a sibling battering device.

  35. They were more common when people had open fires. As the fire sucks air from the room and up the chimney. The same under-door gap won’t have the same draft without the fire. Same reason old doors often have covers for the keyholes.

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