If you live in a cold region, heating costs may be a big part of your monthly budget. Actually, if you pay attention to some detail, costs on hearting will be decreased significantly.
Due to the rapidly increasing costs of home heating, you may be paying much more to heat your house as you did. How to reduce the cost? Following are these money-saving tips:
1. Check your house to identify where the heated air is leaking out. Some areas such as doors, window, and fireplace need special maintenance. Use something to stop the leaks.
2. Turn off ventilation fans. Fans in Bathroom and ketch in winter will suck half of the heated air out of your room, believe it or not. They are a big factor of the increase of your heating costs.
3. Narrow down the heating area. In some places you don't visit often such as kitchen, guestroom, close the heating vents in these room and close its door to heated areas, to save the energy and costs.
4. If you just stay before a TV or a computer, use a space heater to heat the room.
5. Keep heating equipments in good condition. If the filter gets dirty, it will cost more than usual and its lifespan will be shortened.
6. If possible, wash anything in cold water.
7. Choose solar water heater. The heated water for a family may not be enough in winter, but you can incorporate it with gas or electricity, it will save you a lot of money. By the way, the water heated by solar heater can be used to wash clothes and dishes.
8. Shorten your showing time. In cold winter, nothing will give you more warmth other than hot shower and you may want to stand under it as long as possible, but you may cut your heating cost one third if you shorten your shower time half.
9. If you like sunshine, open the blinds and curtains in the south-facing side when the sun is out. It will save a lot of energy and by the way, sunshine is the healthiest and most eco-friendly heating system, in my opinion. In the north-facing side, thick curtains are necessary. It can prevent cold air from outside, which will definitely reduce your heating costs.
