9 Energy-Saving Tips for Keeping Your Home Warm This Winter

Keeping our homes warm in the wintertime can be difficult. But it’s essential. Keeping your home warm protects your health and boosts your mood, but it also helps you to avoid dampness and condensation, which can lead to mold growth, unpleasant smells, and other damage to your house. This year, most of us are trying to find ways to reduce our energy bills, which can seem impossible when it’s so cold outside. But it’s not. Here’s a look at some great ways to save energy, while keeping warm. 

Add Insulation

Insulation is one of the most effective ways to keep our homes warm, reduce energy waste, and cut our bills significantly. If your home hasn’t got insulation, or it’s got some but not enough or not in the most important areas, then this could make a huge difference to your comfort, your health, and your bank balance. 

You should have at least 10cm of loft insulation, to stop heat from escaping through your roof. If you’ve got some, but not enough, adding more is fairly straightforward. You should also check to see if you have cavity wall insulation. 

Block Draughts

Even small draughts let cold air in and warm air out. Check around windows and doors for draught and make repairs to seals as needed. Adding a thick curtain and a homemade draught excluder to your external doors can make a big difference. 

Invest in a Fireplace

A traditional fireplace in the form of a wood-burning stove can be an excellent addition to your home. It’ll look fantastic and help you to create a cozy atmosphere, after all, there’s nothing more warming than snuggling up with a hot chocolate in front of the fire when you come in from a cold day. 

A wood-burning stove can also be an excellent alternative to central heating and gas fires when it comes to heating your home. It will keep you warm during the colder months, heat your rooms quickly, and save you money on heating bills. 

Light Candles

Candles don’t give off a lot of heat. But they do give some, and they help us to create a cozier atmosphere, which can help us to feel warmer. This is a small step that shouldn’t be underestimated. 

Add Heavy Curtains

Heavy curtains help to trap warm air in and keep cold air out. As soon as the sun goes down for the day, close your curtains, and if they are above radiators, tuck them in, so that the heat doesn’t go straight out behind them. 

Roll Out a Rug

A rug can make your floors warmer and more comfortable, especially if you have wooden floors, which don’t seem to get warm. 

Make the Most of Any Heat That You Generate

Trapping heat in is great, but have you considered the other heat that you generate during the day? Something as simple as leaving the oven door open to cool once you’ve cooked can warm the air in your home and save you energy. 

Close Doors

Closing internal doors, and even turning the heat down in the rooms that you aren’t using can save energy while keeping the rooms that you are using warmer. 

Move Your Furniture

If large pieces of furniture, like your sofa, are next to the heaters, you might feel warm when you are using them, but they are actually stopping heat from travelling efficiently around your home. Move furniture away from heaters to better circulate warm air. 

For a comfortable and healthy home, you should try to keep your rooms above 18 degrees, but that doesn’t mean that you need to run your heating constantly. These energy-saving tips can help to keep your home cozy, without running up huge bills.