Effective protection from drafts

A typ­ic­al scen­ario dur­ing the cold sea­son: All win­dows are closed, the heat­ing is on non-stop, but the house still feels chilly because there’s a cold draft. The reas­on could be an improp­erly sealed front door. To pre­vent this from hap­pen­ing, the joints between door and wall must always be filled with a seal­ing tape when installing a new door or repla­cing the old one. This not only stops annoy­ing drafts, but also pro­tects against noise and driv­ing rain. And if the joint seal­ing tape is cer­ti­fied with the EMICODE^® seal, there will be con­sid­er­ably few­er harm­ful emis­sions.

Your front door is the call­ing card of your home. It gives vis­it­ors a first impres­sion – and first impres­sions count! Not only should it look wel­com­ing and beau­ti­ful, but it must also offer secur­ity and pro­tec­tion – from burg­lars but also from the weath­er. Nat­ur­ally, the same applies to bal­cony and patio doors. Apart from expert install­a­tion, also prop­er seal­ing plays a key role – the same as with win­dows. In order to pre­vent later dam­age, the joint between the door and the wall must be filled with a spe­cial joint seal­ing tape. Since this tape can­not be installed sub­sequently with the door in place, the seal­ing needs to take place in the course of door install­a­tion.

This spe­cial seal­ing tape (also called back­er rod) is a flex­ible product con­sist­ing of pre-com­­pressed foam. After being applied to the doorframe, the foam slowly expands until it fits snugly against the edges of the joint. Being coated with a water-repel­lent syn­thet­ic res­in, the seal­ing tape later provides effect­ive pro­tec­tion against driv­ing rain but also noise. Thanks to its heat-insu­lat­ing prop­er­ties, less heat­ing energy is lost in autumn and winter. Pos­sible drafts are no longer allowed to enter the house unim­peded through leaky doorframes.

In your home, how­ever, you not only need pro­tec­tion from burg­lars and the weath­er, but also from poten­tially harm­ful sub­stances. A “healthy home” is becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant. When under­tak­ing a build­ing or renov­a­tion pro­ject, it is there­fore of vital interest that you put your trust in the right products. Emis­sions from build­ing mater­i­als have a neg­at­ive impact on indoor air qual­ity and people’s well-being. Low-emis­­sion seal­ing tapes and oth­er build­ing products can be eas­ily iden­ti­fied by qual­ity seals like EMICODE^®.