Heating properly: Save heating costs and improve indoor air

Whether in an apartment or house: proper heating saves money

Heating costs can be saved with quite simple measures.

Think about whether you really need to turn on the heating in all rooms in the house or apartment. Rooms in which you don't or rarely stay can be a little cooler. Every degree of room temperature that you do not heat saves 6 percent on heating costs.
For example, you don't really "live" in the hallway or in the bathroom. Always stay there for a short time. Therefore, you do not need to heat these areas or only heat them a little.
Ideally, there should be 20 to 21 degrees in the living room, 18 degrees in the bedroom and 16 degrees in the hallway.
Since you are usually only in the bedroom at night, you can turn off the heating one hour before bed. The room temperature then drops by about five degrees, but you save up to 30 percent on heating costs.

If the heat can escape easily, you need to heat more.

Use your roller shutters to save on heating costs. You should let them down in the evening. So the heat cannot escape so easily. If you pull it up during the day, the sun - if it shines - also heats up the rooms in winter.
Of course, you should keep the doors closed to keep the heat in the heated rooms. If the doors do not close well on the floor, use a draft stopper.
Windows are often weak points in energy-conscious heating. So check whether cold air flows in through joints. If this is the case, you should seal the windows. You can find tips on this in another article.
Curtains on the windows help to save up to 10 percent on heating costs. If you use floor-length curtains, the savings increase to up to 25 percent.

If the heating and radiator do not work properly, this costs energy and the apartment will still not be pleasantly warm.

Check that the radiators are also warm. If it chuckles, you have to bleed the radiators. We'll show you how in a separate article.
Have your heating system serviced regularly. If the burner is set incorrectly or soot has accumulated, heating costs will quickly increase by 10 to 15 percent.
If you have an older heating system, it may be worth thinking about buying a new system.

A pleasant indoor climate not only requires the right room temperature, but also good indoor air.

That is why regular ventilation is also important in winter. You have to ventilate the room, the tilting of the windows does nothing.
To do this, open the windows completely several times a day for about five to ten minutes.
Turn off the radiators beforehand and only raise them again when the windows are closed again.
With regular burst ventilation, you not only provide fresh air in the rooms. They also prevent mold growth, as moisture can escape from the home.

In our next post, you will find out whether sleeping with the window open is healthy or harmful.