Best Tips for Saving Money Spent on Heating Home Interiors During Winters

Winters can be severely chilling and you may need all the ways through which you can heat up your home interiors, and enjoy comfortable living. Heating costs during winters can be high, just like the cooling costs during winters. AC manufacturers suppliers offer you best-in-class HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems that provide for efficient heating and cooling of a home interior. The HVAC’s timely care and maintenance also helps in lowering of energy bills.

There are some ways that will help you lower your electricity and heating bills. We detail them here so that you can follow them with ease and perfection.

Patching the leaks

Leakages are as bad for home cooling as they are for home heating processes. Look for the poor insulation methods employed, the drafty window/doors and the poorly laid and undersized ductworks. You can also get an energy audit of your home interiors done by a professional HVAC and air conditioning unit installer. Once you fix all the problematic heat-loss leakage areas, you stand to gain by up-to 30 % on your energy bills.

Close the fire place damper

If you possess a fire place within your home interiors, then you must close the damper of the fireplace. The valuable warmth escapes through the damper.  Start by closing the flue, but this would not seal the whole of the gap. You can have a glass door on the fireplace or can also have a fireplace insert.

Be ahead in your HAVC’s maintenance

Do not wait for the winter to set in, and get your HAVC unit serviced beforehand. Studies say that each HAVC unit should be thoroughly inspected after each successive 6 months, for best energy efficiency and optimal performance. This ensures that all parts of the units, including the evaporator, compressor, refrigerant and other unit parts are working in an optimized manner. RefComp compressor manufacturers also provide you with care-booklet that has tips for maintaining and inspecting an HVAC unit. Use the guidelines and tips to get a better performing HVAC unit. 

Thermostat adjustment

Always have the adjustable thermostat (provided by the air conditioner suppliers) for your home’s HVAC unit. It has programmable settings. You only need to input the settings once, and the thermostat only allows the HAVC to work when you are at home. This saves a lot of electricity and consequently you spend less on the energy bills. Keep the temperature of thermostat at around 70 degree fahrenhiet, which is more of an optimized temperature setting that is comfortable and provides for energy efficiency as well.

Adjust the water-heater settings

Most homes have the water-heater set at 140 degree fahrenhiet, which is a lot more than what is actually required. A lowering of the temperature settings brings in 3 to 5% of energy saving. Also use the faucet aerators and the low-flow showerheads, for more energy conservation.