What causes air leaks and ice around doors and door handles?
My front door has ice by the weatherstrip on the handle side, what causes that and how can I fix it?
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Doors are one of the most common areas for air leakage in homes. The constant opening and closing means they cannot have the same airtightness and other openings in your house such as windows. And with air leakage comes condensation and frost in winters, so that is likely what you are seeing. It can be many things including air pressure imbalance or very high humidity. We have a question that I think may answer your question, so have a look here first and if it doesn't help much give us more details and hopefully we can help more, but see here first -
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