Combi Boiler tips: Save money on heating your home during cold months

Here are some tried and tested tips from Indira Mwale of Grace Plumbing.

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00:00Okay, here are my five top winter warmer tips from Grace Pleming.

00:06Tip number one is layers. I don't want to sound condescending but if you're putting your

00:13heating on and you've got shorts and t-shirt it's it's a waste of money. Make sure you've got

00:19your socks on, trousers, dressing gown, maybe a hooded fluffy dressing gown, anything to keep

00:25yourself warm before turning the heating up. My second tip I would say is draft excluders.

00:33They are so simple to make if you don't want to buy one. Yeah, they're simple to make. A pair

00:39of tights, some old clothes in it, put it under the gaps in under your door, covering the gaps

00:45on your flooring, windows, having thick curtains in the winter. Yeah, those kind of things can help

00:52reduce the amount of heat loss in your house and again save you money on your energy bills.

01:04Number three is your boiler. If you have a combi boiler you can set your setting for the heating

01:12to 55 degrees and the reason why we have it at this temperature is because most combi boilers

01:20now are condensing boilers and that is when they are condensing they are run at their most

01:25efficient saving you energy and a lot of people put it up but really 55 should be fine. If it's

01:33a bit colder maybe 60 and that will also save, that could save you almost 50 percent. This can

01:41save you up to 50 percent a year on your energy bills. My fourth tip I would say is your thermostats.

01:52So your room stats, they can be set to whatever temperature you want. If you have it on the ideal

02:00temperature which is between 19 and 21 degrees maybe try just turning it down by one degree.

02:06All right so what I would say is turn down your thermostat. I would say again with your system

02:18controls it would be the TRVs which is your thermostatic radiator valve and in the rooms that

02:24you're using you can turn them up and in the rooms that you're not using turn them down a little

02:31and also with your timers and programmers set them for a time maybe half an hour before you

02:38get into the house and on an evening and maybe half an hour before you get up in the morning

02:46and have it on for a couple of hours in during that time where you're getting ready

02:51and getting dressed and then make sure that it turns off whilst well before you go out.