Tips For Reducing Household Fuel Usage

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Leaving your heating on all the time and using room thermostats to control the temperatures in your home is more likely to lead to higher fuel bills than you would have if you used the timer on your boiler to turn it off when it is not needed. You can easily test whether it would be better to control your heating with the timer or with your room thermostats simply by doing them for a week each, and comparing the metre readings. Turning off the radiators in rooms when you are not going to be using them for a while is a good way to bring down your fuel bills. Whenever you do this, be sure to close the doors to these rooms, or you will lose heat from the parts of the house you want to keep warm. Using room thermostats to control your radiators is a good idea, as if you turn off the radiator manually in a room that has a thermostat, it will force your boiler into overdrive trying to heat the rooms where the radiators are off. A very cost effective way to cut your fuel usage is to install Thermostatic Radiator Valves on your radiators, which keep your radiators at a fairly constant temperature by regulating the flow of hot water into them based on the thermostat reading. TRVs can be an excellent way to set lower temperatures in rooms that do not need to be so warm, such as bedrooms, as they allow to set a different temperature in each room. For maximum fuel efficiency, you should set the thermostat on your boiler to the maximum level, and use the room thermostats or TRVs to achieve comfortable temperatures in the individual rooms. If your boiler is more than ten years old, then fitting a modern high efficiency boiler, such as those made by Baxi UK, can seriously reduce your heating bills. Another way to improve your fuel efficiency is to fit digital programmable heating controls.