Tips from experts to cut energy bills this winter and keep your home warm | UK | News

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Annual dual-fuel bills price cap will rise to £1,717 per year, with households using a typical amount of energy seeing a £140 increase.

Fortunately, with a few investments and clever upgrades, you can keep heating costs low, protecting you against colder weather while cutting energy bills.

The first tip may seem obvious, but by sealing doors, particularly the front door, you can minimise any draughts entering the home by sealing gaps or cracks.

Draught excluders can be used inside or outside doors or around window frames, effectively reducing energy costs.

Weather-stripping tape can also be applied to the sides of doors and windows to fill gaps where hot air is escaping. Keyhole covers are inexpensive metal discs that plug any air gaps around keyholes.

Insulating your roof is one of the best ways to retain heat in your household, reducing heat loss by half.

Rolls of mineral wool insulation between the joists on a loft floor are recommended by the Energy Saving Trust.

The independent organisation added: “ If you’re doing any DIY insulation, be careful that you’re not covering any vents, grilles or airbricks.

“Installed correctly, loft insulation should pay for itself many times over in its 40-year lifetime.”

Other ways to retain heat in your home during winter include well-fitted lined curtains, wooden interior shutters, thermal blinds, and window insulation film.

Thermal curtains or blinds help maintain a more stable indoor temperature by preventing heat transfer through windows, which ultimately lowers energy bills.

“By restricting the flow of air between the warm and cold areas of a space, curtains aid in heat retention,” explains Reynolds Blinds.

“Also, double-glazed windows will allow heat to escape, but heavy curtains will act as a barrier, preventing air from flowing from the main room to the window.”

The final tip to help keep your warm extra toasty this winter includes warming up your walls.

Andrei Tartza from Pioneer Insulation spoke to The Telegraph and explained that “houses built before the 1930s tend to have solid walls”.

“Opting for external wall insulation provides a layered shield that not only gives the building incredible kerb appeal, it protects your home, long term, from the elements outside and stops heat from escaping.”

Tartza added how warming your walls also “helps to regulate the temperature indoors throughout the year and will work towards stamping out condensation, damp and mould.”

“Cavity walls can be insulated by a professional, who will inject insulation material into the cavity – or space – in the wall,” added the Energy Saving Trust.

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