Finish your floor with DraughtEx

If you’re renovating your wooden floor why not consider adding DraughtEx as the finishing touch. The ideal time to seal gaps between floorboards is after varnishing, oiling or waxing because the preparation has already been done. The specially formulated colour Shadow is designed to replicate the natural shades between floorboards. Therefore DraughtEx not only seals [...]

DraughtEx Can Help Allergy Sufferers

The problem of dust and pollen circulating around the house in summer is well known to allergy sufferers. DraughtEx can help solve this problem by sealing the gaps between your floorboards and stopping the flow of air – therefore restricting the movement of dust and allergens. Allergy sufferers often avoid having carpets in the house as [...]

New Gap Sealant for Sash Windows

Following multiple customer suggestions we have taken the idea of the DraughtEx floor filler and developed a similar product for draught-proofing sash windows. We knew for a long time that DraughtEx is not only good to seal floorboard gaps but also perfect to stop sash window draughts and to fill gaps around distorted windows. However, [...]

It’s getting colder!

As we all know and feel autumn is coming around swiftly. The local Garden Center starts to display Christmas decorations and we ask ourselves where this year has disappeared to. Soon enough warm clothes will have to be dug out and the heating needs to be turned on again. With temperatures dropping outside and the [...]

How much DraughtEx do I need?

Two factors influence how much DraughtEx you need to fill your floorboard gaps: 1. Total length of all your floorboard gaps added together 2. The width of your gap The total length required is quickly worked out. Just multiply the length of one floorboard by the number of floorboards. However, please note that this length [...]

DraughtEx also stops window and skirting board draughts

We call Draughtex a floorboard gap filler but it can be used as draught excluder on sash windows and skirting boards as well. The gaps between floorboards and skirting boards regularly cause substantial draughts. In the past these skirting board gaps were sealed with coconut fibre or hemp. Draughtex seals these skirting board gaps much [...]

DraughtEx customer survey winner April 2011

In April the happy winner of our Draughtex Customer Survey Competition for £25 worth of shopping vouchers was K. W. of Royston. Having completed the customer survey questionnaire she was entered into the prize draw. She said:  “I actually fitted the DraughtEx this weekend, I am super happy. What a lovely email to get, thanks so much.” [...]

DraughtEx Customer Feedback

It is always encouraging for us when a customer comes back and says: ‘Your floorboard filler really helped me out.’ Just a few days ago we received some feedback so nice we would like to share it with you: I do not normally bother with feedback but I was so impressed with your product that [...]

Draft or Draught?

This is a question often raised by our customers when they are searching for a floorboard gap filler and try to type the right search term into Google… What is the right spelling of the word and why? The Oxford Dictionary advises: “Do not confuse draft with draught. Draft means ‘a first version of a [...]

DraughtEx customer survey winners January and February 2011

In January the happy winner of our Draughtex Customer Survey Competition for £25 worth of shopping vouchers was F. H. of  Dumfries. In February the winner was Norton W. of Kettering. Having completed the customer survey questionnaire both were entered into the prize draw. Norton said: “Ironically when I entered the competition I thought to myself [...]