The cost of living... what can we do?

I made some for my doors and used plastic pellets in them - the ones that are used for weighted blankets. I don't have any sliding doors and now the garden and front doors have proper "sweep" style strips affixed to their bottoms. If postage wasn't expensive, I'd ship my old draught stoppers to you!

I'm doing a lot of pick ups and deliveries today and have spent 2 cents on ink to print off a comprehensive route so as not to waste petrol. The map looks like a race track circuit but at least it will be efficient.

As a by the way, our petrol is now $1.35 per liter - that's .81 pound sterling per liter. Yup, less than a pound.

 

I had some carpet offcuts left over, cut to size, rolled & glued. When the door is shut just roll with your feet into place.

 

I used to make quite a lot of sets of bi fold doors, wooden ones that is mostly in oak and although all the running gear used to come with draught seals all round I was always a bit sceptical about how draught proof they really were in practice.

 

I've never seen bifold doors used as entryways, only as closet doors. Is this common over there?

 

There has been a big upsurge in bi folds over here, the gear we first started using came from Australia, so you can guess that the odd draught wasn't a real problem for them.
The fact you can push them right back and create a large opening with no obstruction is what everyone wants.
We used to make them with a single door at one end that operated normally for just going in and out.

Often people used to have them from house to conservatory and then another set out onto deck or patio.

 

If only Santa gave out free fuel!

 

Just edited this, I see you call those glass sliders, bifolds. I used to have those but replaced them with garden doors so that I could have a wide opening.

Sorry - I was talking apples instead of oranges!

 

I think that is what we call sliding patio doors.
Bifolds are any number of doors that are hinged on each other and run on a top and bottom track, they then slide but only one edge of each door is in the track usually on a pivoting top wheel.
They then go back concertina fashion to one end or,depending on size to both ends.