Chapter 1: What are the common sources of drafts in your house?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. The sun is shining, but there is definitely a chill in the air. The cold wind can still make its way into the little nooks and crannies of your house. So how do you stop them? Well, I'm joined by the founder of the Irish School of DIY, Declan Buggy. Declan, it's lovely to see you.
How are you? How are you, Clare?
I'm very well. And we had a great reaction to you when you came in the last time, so we wanted to have you back. I think it's freezing. Do you agree with me in your T-shirt there?
At times we walked in, we got surrounded, so we did walking in.
But it is still cold, isn't it? Like chilly.
Yeah, it is. It's chilly out. There's a chill in it. And it's obviously blowing into your houses and making your houses cold.
And everybody's talking about, you know, getting ready now for the wintertime. I know we're only coming into the summer, but everyone's a bit nervous about what the energy costs are going to be. But now is the time to fix all these little problems, isn't it?
Yeah, when we have time, we have daylight now in the evening, so why not get around to doing these small little jobs around the house that we can do just to keep the house nice and warm.
So maybe let's look at the front door first of all. The draft is coming in around the front door. What's the first thing you would be doing there?
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Chapter 2: How can you effectively seal drafts around your front door?
There are other ways we can look into it by maybe upgrading our heating systems and stuff like that. But in terms of doing small jobs, I would stick to these lads first.
OK, now you've brought in part of a door here today as well with a lock in it.
Yes.
You're showing us how to change the locks.
To change the locks is fairly simple. So the reason why we bought this in is just nice and simply just to kind of encourage people to do it at home as such. Like to change these out, there's not a big job. All you simply have to do is take out the four screws here, take out just two screws here, pull them out and pop them back.
When you were buying a lock for a door, are they standard size? Because I have a vision now of taking all that off and buying a lock that won't fill in the gap in the door.
Yeah. The most important part of looking at this is when we do take them off. OK, it's this lad here we're looking at, which is the faceplate that joins where the latch sticks out of. Okay. Sometimes when you do take them off, the locks on the inside are always the exact same size pretty much.
But we always encourage to take it off, bring it into the hardware shop and say, I want a lock that's this size.
Because they are different, are they?
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Chapter 3: What materials can be used to stop drafts from windows?
Do you know what I mean?
So the course that you were running, the summer camp, it's really to prep them for going into an apprenticeship and kind of attract them into it.
Yeah.
that's our pre-apprenticeship camps and then after that so when primary schools are off again then we have for 9 to 14 year olds we have summer camps so a lot of this is woodwork as well as a little bit of learning how to hang something up on a wall and all other like basically the whole idea is to get tools into their hands and have fun while doing it they get to make wooden projects that they bring home and these are 2040s all around the country so they're in Dublin Kilkenny Cork Westmead Leash everywhere so they are
And do you think the message is getting through about apprenticeships and about this kind of work? Because for a while, everybody thought that the be all and end all was a degree. Do you think there's a bit of a change?
I think the penny's starting to drop. Yeah, I think people are trying to cop now that like, one, why do you go to college when you don't get paid? You have to spend whatever, 15 or 16 grand for the year. Then when you come out, you're actually still getting paid less, a lot of the jobs than the lads who are now a qualified plumber, plasterer, blocklayer.
We always say, look around the Foss centres, the cars outside are quite nice.
Good advice, Declan. Thanks so much for coming in again. Declan Buggy. And if you want to find Declan, just have a search for the Irish School of DIY on social media, Declan.
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