A significant reduction in heating costs is primarily associated with large investments, such as insulation of the walls of the building, replacing windows, installing radiators with heat -reflecting screens from aluminum foil and installing electronic programmable thermostats that support the given temperature in the room.
Where does the cold come from the house?
For obvious reasons, not all investments from the listed list can be carried out immediately, but there is always the opportunity to reduce heating costs by simply reviewing and changing your habits. Our ultimate goal is to reliably protect the house from cold penetration. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of the sealing of windows and doors, the device at the entrance to the basement of the vestibule, the widespread use of flooring and carpets, which will act as insulators that keep heat.
When warming the room, it should be remembered that the ventilation grilles in the kitchen and the bathroom cannot be closed.
A person feels good when the temperature in the room is in the range from 19 to 22 degrees. At night this temperature can even be reduced to 17 degrees. Therefore, it is necessary to install the thermostat so that the house is warm, but not hot, and a feeling of light coolness disappears if you put on a sweater and warm slippers.
The implementation of such a solution allows you to perform an electronic thermostat, which can be programmed to maintain a higher temperature during the day and lower – at night. You should refuse to heating unused rooms or reduce the temperature in these rooms to 7 degrees without risk to freeze the heating system.
Rational use of heat
Rational choice and competent management of heating devices can also contribute to the general process of reducing heating costs. Therefore, irrevocably abandon the use of various heaters as the main heat sources. Review your habits and give up drying linen on batteries and radiators. In winter, replace long curtains and curtains with short, not covering heating radiators.
You can use even heat generated during cooking – cannot stand hot pots and pots on the balcony, just let them cool on the stove, and thereby heat the air. If possible, prepare in the afternoon and not in the evening and during cooking and pastries, leave the kitchen door open to warm up to the apartment.
Proper ventilation of the premises
You can reduce heating costs if you pay attention to the preservation of the heat already received by various methods. At the same time, to prevent heat loss, first of all, the doors to the balcony and to the corridor should be thoroughly sealed. But this does not mean at all that the premises should be abandoned. Regular ventilation is the issue of emergency, as it prevents the formation of mold and fungus on the walls.
The premises should be ventilated regularly, but in order to minimize heat loss for ventilation, you should choose the most suitable moment. The right time open the window in the morning, when the temperature lowered at night did not begin to rise and the radiators have not yet been warmed up in the evening, before going to bed. Do not forget that the thermostat was turned off during the weathering process.
