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Jul
L.M., Kapiti.
I roll up small blanket put bottom of door to stop drafts coming through or lose heat. Only heat the room you are in not the whole house.
Category Archives: Heating
13
Jul
C.S., Nelson.
To save on heating costs – fill a hot water bottle and put it on your sofa with a blanket over it 15 minutes before the news starts. Wrap yourself in the blanket with hot water bottle at your feet and watch the daily current events. Don’t know if this would stretch to Coronation Street […]
13
Jul
Pamdelilah, Christchurch.
Too keep away the winter chills here is a tip for a DIY heater. You will need some tea light candles, a bread baking tin, and two ceramic flowerpots! The tea lights (up to four) are placed into a bread loaf baking tin then covered with the smaller upside-down flower pot so the pot sits […]
13
Jul
C A S, Whakatane.
We have found that by placing a fan in front of our built in fireplace we use less wood and get more heat from the fire. Basically, the increased airflow over the fires surface, transfers the heat to the air at a faster rate, which makes the room much warmer. The same fan can be […]
13
Jul
O.R.
Use a timer on oil heaters. Have it turn the heater on a couple of hours before you get up in the morning. That will mean you can cut the cost in half.
13
Jul
Mrs. Valuable Forthright Opinions, Canterbury (in the UK).
Explore the wonderful world of the hot water bottle. Warming you is much cheaper and probably healthier than heating the space around you. Re-boil the water when it’s no longer warm enough to keep you toasty but still has some warmth in it – it boils much quicker this way. And wrap the hottie up […]
13
Jul
SLC, Auckland.
I’m a single person household. So I found out years ago I could save $20 per month, by only having the hot water cylinder on for 1 hour per day. This is not enough to heat the entire cylinder to the thermostat temperature, but say only half. Of course hot water rises from the bottom […]
13
Jul
Peter Cox, North Shore City.
Oily Rag has some very good tips on saving hot water costs which inspired me to check my hot water cylinder. I found it to be very well insulated but there’s a one meter long copper pipe coming out of it which is always too hot to touch. The heat loss from this pipe must […]
13
Jul
Mackie, Auckland.
Hot water accounts for at least a third of your power bill. I bought a shower timer on Trade Me for $18 and have reduced our power bill by $100 a month. We no longer have an excessive $300+ bill per month!
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Jul
Frugalite, Hamilton
I found that if I turn on my hot water at night when I go to bed, and turn it off in the morning when I get up (about 7am) I saved about $80.00 on my power bill each month!