Efficient tips to reduce your energy bill in winters

UK witnesses one of the coldest and snowiest weathers in the world making it necessary for the UK residents to keep their house warm and have access to hot water all winter long. Energy Costs are rising each day so we should find some energy efficient solutions to avoid high energy bills. What could you do to save some money out of your energy bills?

Save energy costs in 6 simple steps!

Keeping your home warm enough and having your bills reduced is not an impossible task. These simple tips will guide you through a better and warm energy efficient winter. You just have to be consistent and practical

1. Use of Warm clothes

People tend to comfort themselves by turning the heating on full capacity and roam around there house in summer clothes. This is simply wastage of energy. Be consistent and practical and turn off the heating at night before bed and wear warm clothes. So you can save yourselves which you waste by leaving the heating ON for the whole night.

2. Maintain an ideal temperature

Maintain an ideal temperature, 20 degrees is economical enough to maintain comfort and warmth inside your home. Turn off the heating at night for a better and efficient heating experience.

3. Check Insulation Measures around your home

Make sure you have kept a check on all insulation measures around the house, weaker insulations make it easy for heat to escape through your room or house

4. Turn off your Heating during the night time

Blankets are enough to keep you warm for the night. Turn off your central heating system at night because you will be wasting more than 70% of the energy you don’t require.

5. Get to know your Heating System/Boiler Well

Understand your boiler for a better and efficient heating, go though it’s manual for functions and controls. Understand its timing program so that you can efficiently spend energy whenever required without wasting it.

6. Automate your heating system

It is absolutely useless to keep your heating ON at night while you are asleep, but then it is no fun waking up on a cold morning or returning home from work to a cold house. That’s why it is essential to understand the boiler programming functions. Properly adjusting the program means you can set to turn ON and OFF your boiler automatically.

Consider your family’s routine to make the most out of this feature. Program your boiler an hour before the earliest riser in your family and set it off half an hour before everyone leaves for work. Similarly set it ON an hour before you come back from work so that you can have a nice comfy, cosy feeling on arrival.

7. Adjust your valves

Boilers and thermostats work together to provide heat through your radiators which then spread heat around the room. Adjust your valves accordingly, open them up when you have entered the room and lower them till you are comfortable enough.

You also have an option to Zone around the heating in your house, implying to keep the valves open in the living rooms or lounges and turn the valves low in rarely used rooms to make the most of your heating efficiently.

8. Invest in Heating

Energy efficiency is a big issue nowadays which should be dealt personally, if you own a boiler for ten years or longer then, it is time for an upgrade. By upgrading your boiler you can save around 50% on your heating bills.

Boiler replacements aren’t cheap enough they cost around an average of £900 plus installation charges. If you cannot afford a replacement consider investing on other heating components, get valves installed on radiators around your house which may cost around £150. Think about upgrading your boiler controls so that you can make the most out of your heating efficiency.