The best ways to reduce your gas usage
To keep your home comfortable, we have some top tips to help reduce your gas usage and optimise your boilers efficiency. With the colder months approaching and winter being on its way, your energy bill is likely to increase.
Set a Heating Schedule or Install a Smart Thermostat
By having your heating set to a schedule, this will allow your boiler installation to turn on and off at specific times that fit in with your needs. This will prevent unnecessary usage when you do not require your central heating to be on, especially if you are not at home. A good alternative can be to install a smart thermostat to your property. With a smart thermostat, this allows you to control your homes central heating by mobile phone. There are several makes and models. AWP Boiler Installations offer Hive and Hive Mini thermostats, along with Nest, at the most competitive prices.
Lower Your Heating by a Degree or Two
By reducing the temperature by just a few degrees can significantly lower your energy bills and reduce your carbon footprint. Setting your thermostat to a temperature between 17C – 20C degrees is the ideal setting. This will save you money on your gas bills.
Turn Off Radiators in Unused Rooms
By turning off the radiators in the rooms that are unused in your property, you will not only save on your gas bills but will also improve the performance of the other radiators left on in your home. Your central heating will not need to work quite as hard to heat your home.
Check Your Hot Water Temperature
Another good way to save on energy bills is to check the temperature to which your hot water is set. The recommended temperature is 60C degrees for modern homes. Setting it higher than this will waste energy, whereas turning below this number can save on energy and also prevent scalding. For example, while running a bath, turning on the cold water to mix and cool the hot temperature, all this is doing is wasting energy unnecessarily. Adjusting your temperature in the first place to a lower setting, is a more economical choice when it comes to keeping energy costs lower.
Service Your Boiler Regularly
Keeping your home warm and providing hot water to your home is what your boiler is there for. It is very important to keep up on maintenance and have an annual boiler service. The necessary safety checks will examine all key components in the boiler, along with thermostats. Having an annual boiler service can help with preventing costly boiler repairs or even boiler replacements. With a boiler service by AWP Boiler Installations, we can help keep your boiler reaching its optimum performance all year round.
Speak to an Expert
These top tips we have given can be excellent ways to keep your boiler costs and energy bills lower this winter. However; if your boiler is outdated or needs upgrading to a new energy efficient model contact us at AWP Boiler Installations for a free quote, or some expert advice for your homes central heating system, in the areas we cover. Our Gas Safe registered heating engineers serve Solihull and surrounding West Midlands.
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