Pop quiz: Is it cheaper to keep your heating on all the time at a low setting or turn it on and off at a higher one?
Or how about this one: Is it cheaper to heat one room with a gas fire or the whole house on central heating?
We ask because BritMums has teamed up with sponsor British Gas to highlight easy Winter Savings Tips that everyone can use.
While we’d all like easy ways to keep our families warm over winter (our recent post featured a host of easy DIY winter savings tips), sometimes it’s hard to separate the myth from the truth.
Watch the video below to discover 6 common beliefs about energy use in the home — you may be surprised at how many of them are wrong. We were!
Something else you may not know: There are ways you can get help with your bills and energy consumption. Various schemes mean that if you qualify, you can get free help with your home’s insulation, free safety checks, help if you have trouble paying your bills, a one-off payment with the Warm Houses scheme and more.
Check out the Ways We Can Help tool to find out which British Gas or government programmes you could be benefitting from.
Find out about some of the top schemes in this video.
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Tom @Ideas4Dads
Monday 20th of January 2014
Brrrrrrrrr....with all this cold weather we ar looking at getting a log burner for our lounge :-)