We all hate bills and loosing money! So here are some simple tips to keeping money in your pocket and keeping your house warm.
1. For each degree you lower your thermostat, it decreases the money you pay on your fuel by approximately 3%! Lowering you thermostat from 72 degrees to 68 degrees may not feel like much comfort wise, but it saves you 12% on you bill.( If you’re using a coil-type thermostat, you’ll get more accurate readings if you clean it. Pop off the thermostat cover and blow or gently swipe away the dust.)
2. Clean the coils that cool your refrigerator. These coils take the heat out of the inside of the fridge, and this layer of dust prevents them from doing that efficiently.
3. If you have a certain room that is always cold and doesn’t keep heat well, use something to cover the possible points where heat could escape. Even stapling a quilt or tarps over the window(s) could help loads.
4. One of the main places that heat escapes is doors. Place a draft stopper at the bottom of your door to reduce any airflow.
5. Don’t use bathroom fans or any type of ventilation. A bathroom fan can suck all of the heat out of an average house in about an hour.
6. Take shorter showers
7. Wash your clothes in cold water whenever possible.
8. Use space heaters in the rooms you spend time in.
9. Try to keep the lights off.
10. Heat escapes when you go outside. There is a very simple solution to this…don’t go outside! Stay inside as long as possible and come visit us here at Tutorial Ninjas! Our tech experts can give you tips on all sorts of things that you may want to know! Alternatively just make sure you shut the door behind you when you go out. The screen door is not effective at keeping heat in.
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