Gas and electricity prices are soaring. If you’re on a fixed tariff you can put the pain off for a while longer, but sooner or later, it is coming. So it makes sense to do everything you can to cut consumption now.
Some energy saving measures cost a lot of money to implement, but there are others which are cheap or free. My favourite recent discovery - reducing the flow temperature on your boiler.
I discovered mine was set at 78 degrees. I’ve turned it down to 55. The house is still comfortable. The boiler may be firing for slightly longer each day, but we are using less gas. It’s difficult to be precise, cos it obviously varies a lot from day to day. But in the cold snap in early December we were typically using 80 kWh of gas per day, and the last few days it has been more like 65-70, and I think the temperature has been lower the last few days than early December.
Here’s an article all about it, hope it helps someone.
www.theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-down-the-boiler-flow-temperature.
Feel free to add your own energy saving tips.