It’s important to keep your home warm and comfortable through the winter season. However, it’s also necessary to keep your home’s greatest comfort from turning into a worry. Follow a few simple ways and you will be able to keep heating your home without seeing the impact on your monthly energy bill.
1. Insulate Your Home
Improving your home’s insulation is among the first things you need to look into, to keep your spaces warm in an optimal way this winter. Steps like caulking your windows, weather stripping your doors, fitting insulation boards to walls and layering fiberglass batts on your attic floor will help you keep the heat in, and the cold out, which will reflect in lowered energy expenses.
2. Use A Programmable Thermostat
Having a heating system that knows when to turn up the heat and when not to, is a cost saving advantage you’ll definitely want to consider. Upgrade to a programmable thermostat that will enable you to set the optimal temperature when you’re home and lower or turn off the heat when you’re away. You could know more about smart usage of your home’s heat by speaking with local heating oil companies.
3. Maintain Your Heating System
Your existing heating system too can help you save on energy costs, if it’s performing at the right efficiency level. For this to happen, you need to ensure the system has its wear-and-tear and other technical issues detected and resolved well in time. Make sure to have timely maintenance checks done by any of your local heating oil companies; it’s a small investment that will help you get the most out of your system while keeping your costs to a minimum.
4. Use A Portable Heater
Space heaters are an efficient way to heat individual spaces without engaging your entire heating system to do the job. These heaters come in two main formats – convention heaters and infrared heaters. This is a great cost saving solution if you want selective heating through this winter. You could look up ‘heating oil Philadelphia’ on your browser and contact the businesses that list, to know more about installing space heaters.
5. Lower Your Water Heater’s Temperature
The water heater is one of your home’s most used appliances during winter. Lower the temperature from the usual 140 degrees to 120 degrees and you’ll enjoy the comfort of hot water, while bringing down your energy consumption.
Follow these five tips to see a dip in your energy bills without any impact on your heating comfort. If you need an expert to guide you or to install or maintain an HVAC system at your home, reach out to us at 610 595 4717 or 215 709 9196. We’re Boyle Energy, a licensed, insured and reputed family-run business that has been serving communities in Havertown and surrounding areas since 1937. We look forward to helping you stay warm and worry-free this winter, by delivering one of the most professional services in the industry.
(President, Boyle Energy)
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