$50 QUESTION -- Category: Power House

Once walls have been insulated, unimproved doors and windows can still account for how much heat loss in winter?

  1. Every bit of it -- 100 percent. After all, the walls are insulated. Duh!

  2. Up to 50 percent.

  3. None. If you keep leaky old doors and windows closed, they don't cause any problems.


    Congratulations! You got that one correct. Give yourself $50.00! Some heat will be lost through insulated walls, but air can seep through cracks around door and window frames, and heat can be transferred directly through a window's glass and frame through the process of conduction. Loosely fitting windows can lose up to five times more heat than tightly fitting ones!

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