Cut Your Heating Costs and Save Money This Winter

Every Dollar Counts

One of the most overlooked ways of saving money is through lowering your heating costs and you can save big with small and simple home improvements. Listed below are a few tips on saving money on heating costs.
Programmable Thermostat
When you set back your thermostat, then you will save about 1% per degree of your heating bill every year. Granted if the degree is set back more than eight hours. You can try remembering to turn down 10 degrees manually whenever you leave the house or go to bed. However, a better solution is to use a programmable thermostat. This way you can be sure you won’t forget anything.
Space Heater
A lot of people have a tendency of spending a majority of their time in a single room within the house. If you are one of these people, then you can save a lot of money on the heating bill by using a space heater on the room you spend time the most. Heating a single room while every other room stays at the same temperature can save you at least 200$ per year.
More Tips!
Door and windows – faulty doors and windows can increase your heating bills by 10% to 25%. Therefore, make sure you have your doors and windows checked by a HVAC company for faults.
Blinds – you can save money on heating costs by opening your blinds during the daytime hours to let the heat inside. At dusk, close the blinds to trap the heat inside the house.
Weather stripping – check your exterior walls for weather stripping. If you can find weather stripping that happens to be missing, cracked or old, have them replaced as soon as possible.
Sweep – you can improve the sealing of your interior doors through the use of a sweep. You can purchase a sweep in most hardware stores. You can easily attach them to the bottom of your doors; it keeps the cold air outside.