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   The windows will be the next thing to address.   
      
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   I hunted down the air leaks in an older apartment with a helium balloon   
   ballasted to neutral buoyancy. It rose up at the gas stove (the only heat),   
   crossed the ceiling, and rushed down alarmingly fast where cold air was   
   leaking in, then floated back a few feet above the floor on the cold layer.   
   Helium won't explode like hydrogen but the plastic will melt if you let it   
   be drawn into a hot surface.   
      
   A variation for rubber balloons that slowly leak is to dampen attached paper   
   for decreasing ballast. Mylar holds the gas longer.   
      
   Tape sticks to woodwork better than to wallpaper though the residue may be   
   difficult to clean off later. Your staples are probably the most secure if   
   you can get away with them. I was very careful not to do anything I couldn't   
   undo, but when I came back for my deposit the landlady had stripped and was   
   refinishing the place. She was good at it, too.   
      
   It was the third floor in a two story neighborhood and fully exposed to the   
   wind. I measured 45F in the winter there, and 105F in the summer. I still   
   felt lucky to find it, for its low rent, parking and clothesline in a barely   
   affordable city.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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