Why are the walls in my house so cold?

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asked Mar 10, 2022 in Other-Home/Garden by Kibbikat (1,100 points)
Why are the walls in my house so cold?

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answered Mar 11, 2022 by Sand&Salt (2,940 points)
When the walls in your house are so cold it's caused by a lack of insulation or not enough insulation.

If you feel your walls and the plaster or drywall is cold either you have no insulation behind those walls or there's not enough insulation.

Insulation has different types depending on the zone you're in so it's important to install the proper R Value of Insulation or your home can be too cold in winter and too hot in summer.

In older homes such as those homes with plaster walls or 100 year old homes they had no insulation behind the walls as the insulation we use today was not invented yet.

I live in a 100 year old house myself and I have insulated most of the house when I remodeled and took down the falling plaster and put drywall.

However my Kitchen and bedroom walls have good plaster and no insulation in behind the walls.

So I can feel the plaster and the walls are cold when it's cold outside.

I plan to rip those walls down hopefully in the next few years and do remodeling and adding insulation but for now I have to deal with it.

If you have inadequate wall insulation, wall tapestries are an easy decor fix that will help to warm up your rooms.

 The heavier the material, the better.

A quilt will also work. You can even create a fabric feature wall by applying fabric like wallpaper to one or more walls in your space using liquid starch.
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answered Jun 28, 2022 by Allert (4,840 points)

Hello, maybe you need to change the wallpaper. The right choice of canvases allows you to model the space as you need: visually expand it, smooth out uneven walls, refresh the interior, create coziness. Here you need to take into account the material, appearance, color, prints and other characteristics of the wallpaper. For example, on https://www.wallmur.com/wallpaper/leaf-wallpaper/banana-leaf-wallpaper you can pick up a banana leaf wallpaper, this is a very original option.

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