As the winter months wear on, utilities bills can start to weigh heavy. To lend a helping hand, a British property expert has shared six easy hacks for keeping homes warmer without spending more money.
“Bleed radiators to keep them running properly,” James advises. “Leave your oven door open when you’ve finished cooking.”
“Shutting blinds and curtains can keep the heat in,” is James’s third hack. “Foil behind your radiators helps deflect heat,” is the fourth.
For this hack, James cuts rectangular sheets of aluminum foil and affixes them with double-sized tape to the walls behind wall-mounted radiators, to reflect heat back out into the room.
“Try to leave a bit of a gap between your radiator and sofa,” James continues, moving a sofa approximately six inches away from a wall-mounted radiator to allow room for the heat to disperse around the room.
Finally, James advises, “If you’re not using them, shut loft hatches and doors.”
“Wrap some card with tin foil and put it behind your radiators,” Williams specified; “there’s no point putting time and effort into organizing your heating if half the heat is just going into your walls.”
Covering the bottoms of doorways with draught excluders, and drawing thick curtains at nighttime if you don’t have double-glazed windows, are two additional ways to conserve heat and prevent extortionate utilities bills in the winter.
“Property Guy” James originally relocated from London to Portsmouth in southern England in pursuit of cheaper house prices. He bought his first home in 2016 at the age of 24, a two-bedroom apartment for 120,000 pounds (US$164,500) and lived in it during the renovation process.
He sold the house for a profit of 15,000 pounds (US$20,500) in 2017, which he promptly invested into his next renovation project. Beside hiring experts for major jobs, James did and still does as much of the renovation as he can by himself, learning from YouTube videos.
