You will find many things you can do to lessen your heating bills, most of which are extremely easy and require little, or no financial expenditure. Those that do require a cost, usually pay back pretty quickly:

The easiest method of lowering your heating bill would be to switch of the heating completely! but failing that something a little less radical will be to to lessen the temperature of your room thermostat by 1°c. Even though it seems like too small a change to create a direct effect, the fact is that it’ll lower your heating bills by as much as 10%!

An increase of up to 40% can be achieved in the efficiency of your boilers energy costs if a good thermostat is fitted and thermostatic radiator valves TRVs are used on the homes radiators. TRVs and thermostats can be purchased relatively cheaply on the internet though we would recommend that thermostats in particular be fitted by a Leeds plumber.

A huge amount of heat is lost in every home due to poor insulation and a lack of draught proofing can leave a home feeling cold . To counter this look to use draught proofing materials like door brushes etc. Letter boxes are prime areas too. Its worth spending some time tracing down the source of the drafts and a candle flame is a very efficient way of doing it.

Switch off radiators within the guest room (unless of course you have visitors, obviously!), do the same in the second loo, utility room, etc. If a room of your house is not used frequently does it need the central heating on?

Manage the hot water temperature. Your warm water thermostat needn’t be greater than 60 centigrade (140 Fahrenheit). Any greater and you’ll simply be mixing in cold water to reduce it down again to a comfortable temperature to be used. This is definitely a job where you wont need Central Heating Plumbers Leeds help. Unless of course your boiler isn’t capable of 60 degrees or you are looking for a bathroom installers Leeds

Make sure the boiler timer is fitted and you are using it. Set the timer to switch off the system when nobody is home and you will save plenty of cash rather than forgetting to switch it off and leaving it in all day.

A regularly serviced boiler is a more efficient boiler. Serviced boilers use much less fuel and are far less likely to emergency boiler repairs than are boilers which aren’t serviced.

Make sure that you are running your system with a rust inhibitor. This is added to the water in the system and helps prevent the corrosion which is the cause of the sludge build up in the radiators. The inhibitor also helps the pump to perform better. Call our central heating engineers Leeds if you need any help with this.

When the radiator isn’t working correctly and appears to become cold at the very top and hot at the end then probably there’s air within the radiator, and the radiator needs bleeding. You need a bleeding key available from hardware stores. You should make certain the system is switched off when you are performing it. More Tips will be posted in a few days by Central Heating Leeds