Heat yourself happy! 6 tips for the economical heat balance
Christmas is over, the one thousand candles extinguished, the warm light gone. Alas, all that remains in the room is the cool reality of January? and, of course, the certainty that it will not warm up until May at the earliest. Sob.
No reason to bury your head in icy New Year's ground. So that you do not burn away the entire holiday budget for the summer of 2018, we have summarized the best heating tips for you at home. So you save money and nerves and feel as well as after five cups of mulled wine.
Free the radiator
Almost the mother of all heating rules and physically almost super logical: The poor heating needs room to breathe. So when covered by two pianos, four sofas and ten kilos of curtain fabric, she can not spread her warmth. A blocked heating causes up to five percent more costs? So: clear the heating and enjoy the warmth.
Cross air instead of continuous air
When it gets stuffy, do you like to open the windows? also in the winter. But one should ventilate briefly and consistently by opening opposite windows. Slanting individual windows brings little fresh air and only ensures that unnecessary heat escapes.
Make a seal
A lot of heat is lost over the windows? especially at night, when it's time for Unternull. But this is easily remedied, just close curtains or shutters and it stays nicely hygge inside.
Incidentally, this also counts for the individual rooms. The optimum temperature in the bedroom and the kitchen at around 18 ° C, in the living room at 20 ° and in the work and children's room and bathroom at 22 °. To keep things from getting mixed up, just keep the partition doors closed.
Not power heating
Sure, on the way home in freezing rain, soaked and frozen than the eel in the supermarket showcase. Since you want at home only full pipe turn up the radiator. What few know: The steps do not ensure that the heating heats up faster, only longer, until the maximum temperature is reached.
So this means: Level 1 means about 12 ° on thermostatic valves. Each additional level brings 4 ° more. Level 3 is therefore 20 °, the highest level 5 is 28 ° Celsius. The heating is not faster, but just continues blowing to the desired level. After half an hour that's too hot anyway.
Incidentally, each degree costs about six to eight percent heating costs. You had all the math lessons, right?
Constant hold the level
The heating should never be switched off completely during the cold months? unless of course you're going to Brazil for five months. The reason: heating up cold rooms takes a long time and is more expensive, especially if the room is so cold that polar bears could watch a hockey game.
However, this does not apply to rooms that are not used for months. So the guest bedroom does not have to brood permanently in 25 ° Celsius, just because in two months, the gout suffering Aunt Roswitha comes to visit.
showering instead of bathing
Alright, we like Baden too. What a feeling when you get out of the bath at 50 ° after one hour and almost lose consciousness, hyperventilating, sweating for the rest of the evening. Great.
But actually every kid knows that showering needs much less water than a full bath. Namely ten times less. And because water heating increases energy use by up to thirteen percent, showering is also a lot cheaper.
