Jim Nyberg

Renovation of outer doors

The soot above the masonry doors are from opening the doors and adding wood when needed when in full fire mode.

Iam filling the cracks between floor and cellar now with polyurethane foam. The rats seems to love that stuff.

Thinking about stacking some hay bales or loose hay beneath the out-hall(pre-house) floor.

Certainly draft is my biggest issue.



Regarding the moist. My worry is that the moist will create a breeding ground for mold in my cellar roof insulation.

I will also have to seal the small draft windows better in the cellar

We don't have insulation curtains on windows. Didn't even know they exist. Would be an idea. Recommended material? Felt is kind of expensive here. We have 2-3 thick cotton curtains on the doors but plan to add even thicker ones.

Double glazing from the 90s.

Haven't crawled the crawling space on the attic but it was insulated in the 90s, I recon it would need some looking in to.

The doors

The house is built 1790 so a lot of features are to keep the old feel. But it's a double insulated log house.

problem areas are the living room floor. Wide board wood planks single insulated from the basement with 50mm brown pressed fiber boards (?). At winter times there is a lot of draft between the planks. Beneath the living room is the cold cellar which is very moist. I want to add insulation to the ceiling of the cellar but don't want to create a mold growing ground. So iam not really sure how to go about it.

Second problem area is the air duct between the main house and the pre-house(don't know the term) which is uninsulated. And the doors are really old wood doors.

3 years ago we bought house in the middle of Sweden. It's about 1500square feet.

The temps at winter can go down to -22F (-30C)

If I can improve what we got that would be easiest but iam not foreign to change or rebuild.

We have a Air heat exchanger pump. Mitsubishi 6kw but I prefer not using it if I don't have to.

Iam not sure about the English names for these setups.

In the large living room we have the big white(se picture) it retains heat for some time but doesn't give enough to reach comfortable temps at winter.

In the kitchen we have a iron stove also used for cooking. This gives quick heat. But the house is still a little bit too cold =)

The red clay chimneys are I'm the middle of the house with steel pipes inside

Thanks