Upgrade your home’s insulation

 

If you’re looking for a more permanent solution to keep the heat in, upgrading your home’s insulation is more costly, but has longer lasting effects that can help save on your energy bills. Ensuring your home is well-insulated with cavity wall and loft insulation is a great way to help prevent heat from escaping using a similar approach to the use of curtains. The layer of insulating material forms an additional barrier between the internal warmth and external cool air.

External walls, roofs, and lofts are the two main areas of a house that require insulation either installing or upgrading, with around ⅓ of heat loss in an uninsulated home occurring through the walls. Homeowners can also benefit from laying insulating material underneath the floorboards and carpets.
 

Turn down your thermostat

Simply lowering the temperature of your thermostat by one degree is perhaps the easiest way to lower your energy bills.

Turning down the thermostat reduces the amount of time the boiler is running, using less energy as a result. Official government guidance estimates that reducing the temperature from 19°C to 18°C can reduce heating bills by up to 13%.
 

Turn individual radiators off

If there are rooms in the house that you don't use very often, if possible, it could be worthwhile turning down or off the radiators in these rooms. This can usually be done by manually adjusting the valve at the bottom of the radiator. By only heating the rooms you use more frequently, the central heating system doesn’t have to work as hard, meaning that every radiator you turn off effectively results in less work for your boiler to do, which can have a significant impact on lowering your overall gas consumption.
 

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