We're still in the Fall season, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be proactive. Start immediately with small basic tasks to welcome the winter comfortably without the stress of heating.
INVESTA Real Estate – real estate agency Larissa, has collected ways to keep the house warm on cold winter days, without excessive consumption of electricity, gas or oil.
Radiators are a solution that most of the population no longer chooses, or will necessarily choose given the conditions they are called upon to cope with. Heaters, as well as air conditioners, raise electricity bills to the heights, so people are looking for solutions to keep a constant temperature in their homes.
These ways vary:
Autumn is the ideal time to clean the gutters, your fireplace, replace cracked or broken pipes, or to clean the radiator bodies found in every area of your home. The chimney of your fireplace should also be cleaned, with care, because many nocturnal animals often find shelter there.
Where you feel there is a gap in your frames and cold is coming through, seal the gap with silicone. Silicone does not cost but saves, when we want to close water or air leakage points.
Cover the floors of all areas of your home with carpets, rugs, floor mats or even rugs that are now in fashion. In this way, the heat does not dissipate from the floor. In addition, you will not freeze if you walk without shoes or slippers on the frozen tile or marble.
Use your curtains properly. When it's sunny outside, take advantage of the sun's free heat by opening the curtains in all rooms and letting the sun do its work. Then, when it gets dark, close the curtains to act as insulation to keep the rooms warm.
A very good solution for maintaining temperature in your premises is the use of a dehumidifier. In addition to absorbing the humidity of the house, which is often the reason why we get cold, it also dries clothes faster when we lay them out indoors in the winter.
In case you have autonomous heating, install a programmable thermostat. Avoid having the radiator on all day because it will cost you dearly for no reason. Try scheduling it to turn on just before you get out of bed and just before you get home from work. In this way, you will reduce the annual cost of energy consumption by 10% and you will not waste a lot of electricity when you are asleep or away.
A good solution to maintain a constant temperature in your space and avoid heat loss, would also be the thermal facade, or thermal insulation of the roof if you are on the top floor. About a third of the heat in an uninsulated house leaks through the walls while 25% of the heat is lost through the roof.
If you feel drafts coming in under the doors, buy or make your own long, narrow cylindrical pads that prevent the cold from invading your space. You could also cover your windows with aeroplastic, the ball-shaped plastic we wrap around fragile items, greatly reducing heat loss from cold windows. At the same time, draw the curtains so they don't spoil your aesthetics.
If you have a dual-rotation ceiling fan, reverse the direction of motion. These fans are designed to rotate clockwise and push cool air from the top down to create draft. In winter, reverse the direction of their helices. So the fan will take the cold air from below and drive it upwards. In addition, turn on the heating a little. The room will heat up much faster.
Create a homemade terracotta stove. Take a large candle in a container so that it does not melt, support two clay bricks to the right and left of the candle and place on top an upturned ceramic pot (new, not soiled). Then place the improvised stove in the fireplace, if you don't have wood for burning, or on some other safe surface inside the house.
Thermophores are also a good solution to keep warm, even if we associate them with old age. By boiling water and placing it inside the thermos, you can stay warm for quite some time even throughout the night in your sleep. There are still dressed in knitted sweaters in various designs and colors.
In simple and easy ways, each of us can cope with the low temperatures of this winter as well.
