Cut Your Gas Bill And Stay Warm!

Struggling to heat your home this winter with rising gas prices? Want to save money on your gas bills? Then today's video will give you some tips to reduce that gas bill but more importantly, cut the amount of co2 emissions you emit. Some of these tips won't require ANY money to be spent upfront and some may require longer-term investing. If you're here just to save money and not the planet that's fine but maybe considering saving the planet long term will also save you money.

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00:00 How To Cut Your Gas Bills
00:14 Change Boiler Settings
04:13 TRV Valves Rads
06:18 Change Thermostat timings
07:16 Windows loose heat fix this
07:59 Turn the thermostat down
08:32 Make Your Radiator Work
09:54 Heat YOU not the Room
10:07 Stop them draughts

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[bordersw]

Tip if you’ve got elderly relatives . Get them an electric heated over blanket that they can use during the day, I think this will save my mum about £400 this winter.

[mariaspellacy]

If you have back problems get a far infra red waist band, and watch tv, cosy with blanket over you, warming & healing your body at the same time. Also there are now “hoodies” oversized fleecy wearable blankets you can move around in. And fleecy onesies have served me well over the last few winters

[martynjlee]

Some great tips here - I’m definitely going to use these to save some money.

[sjcsystems]

Interesting points but you must remember that heat will migrate from hot to cold. So having a warm room or landing next to an unheated one means your door and walls will leak heat. Another comment mentions damp. You’re asking for trouble with cold rooms and preventing airflow across window frames. You put a throw on but you’re wearing a t shirt. If you’re house is t shirt warm, it’s too warm.

[mathewlawrenceml]

Thermostat set to 20 ha mine is set to 17... Nothing wrong with jumpers.

[RWBHere]

This competition is a pretty good idea, but was somewhat unfair to people who do not have central heating, and who are already using far less energy in their homes than average. There should also be a reward scheme for those people. Maybe Octopus can come up with something for future years.

[TroggyPB]

Small terminology point. The boilers don’t “condensate”. That is a thing, not a verb. By virtue of their construction they “condense” (verb, the vapour in the exhaust fumes) and so produces a liquid that is termed condensate. This action is then applied to the boiler to give it the term “a condensing boiler”.
Interesting content. I have a HW Cylinder and will check its temp and that of the rads with a heat gun I already have.

[ScrapKing]

I’m in Canada, and most people I know use electricity for everything (home heating, hot water heater, kitchen stove, etc), so I’d not heard of an “electric shower”. Looking it up is… interesting. I wonder how its efficiency compared to a heat pump electric hot water heater (centralized hot water heating with via a heat exchange unit mounted atop the hot water heater itself)? One of those was my plan for the next time the hot water heater needed replacing. But I might go this route instead of, or in addition to. Time to do some math!

Third is a video with some really good advice. Fascinating to me how different things are in the UK. Where I live in Canada, radiators are something I associate with old buildings, with new homes being either electric baseboard heating or heat pumps.

[tedgreagsbey]

Just one thing to add DAMP. Cold/cool rooms can/will get damp. I tried not heating my home office a few years ago what did I get, black mould! I now run two dehumidifiers one 24 hrs the other during the day. They do switch off at the required RH % so although "on" they do not work all the time. Office temp 19 RH about 54%, lounge 19 at about RH 49%

[davidbrown]

Thank you. I'm seriously tempted by one of those heat guns.

[edwyncorteen]

Don't think I will win, so far have used 252kWh above my target!

[GlennPierce]

What were those thick blinds you have ?

[jimmyc]

Thank you. When you say outside thermostat, I’m guessing you’re referring to a Weather Compensator. I know you mention Tado which is a good system, my preference is Honeywell Evohome, however as I understand it Tado (certainly Evohome does have this) has Opentherm. Opentherm is rated at a higher Erp class (therefore saves more) than Weather Compensation, and as I understand it Opentherm over rules the Weather Compensator (ie you don’t need this and most won’t work with the two together)
Opentherm in effect controls the flow temperature of the boiler to persuade the boiler to be on “condense mode” ie to keeps the return temp to lower than 55°C
Some controllers such as EvoHome has energy saving features such as turning down the temperature before the end set point, so some of the manual tasks you feature are built into many smart thermostats now
A thing to note is the minimum output your boiler will module to, so if you fit zone valves, ensure that you don’t just heat one or two rooms with radiators since the boilers output will be higher than the rads output meaning the boiler will just cycle and won’t be in condense mode so to speak
Unfortunately I know I won’t stand a chance with the competition, as when I installed Evohome five or so years ago, I saved more than 20% then 😂

[dsc]

So they must still be overcharging if they can giveaway prizes like this.