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How to Keep Your Home Warm in Winter

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Published
02/16/2025

Your home should be a place that you can go to seal yourself away during the cold winter months. Keeping it warm is a top priority, but it can also be expensive. While there are some pricey upgrades that you can make, there are also plenty of cheaper solutions that can prove to be highly effective. This blog post will look at a combination of solutions and via some of them, should be able to have a warmer home throughout the year.

Improve the insulation 

Insulation is the number one way that you can look to ensure that your home is better kept warm. Of course, you have plenty of big, wholesale changes that you can make here. To begin with, you can look at the loft or attic area and ensure that it is properly insulated. You can also look at the highest energy efficient windows as so much heat can be lost through poor quality or old windows. However, there are also the cheaper solutions out there than can include sealing up any draughts around the property that you have left alone and not really dealt with as they need to be.

Set your thermostat well 

Your thermostat can be your best friend or it can be your worst enemy. If you don’t set it at the right times, it can leave your home freezing cold to come back to. Equally, if you have it blasting out all the time, this can lead to a situation where you are heating your home unnecessarily. Many people have a smart thermostat in the modern world and this gives you the highest level of control to stop you using the thermostat in the wrong way.

Use your curtains properly 

A solution that doesn’t have to cost you a penny is to simply use your curtains more effectively. Some people will barely open or close them at all. However, if you keep them shut at the right times, this will help to keep heat nicely contained in your home. Equally, you should make sure to open them up nice and wide during the sunlight hours as this will allow your property to get some free heat from the sun, which no one should complain about.

Add rugs or carpets 

While a big chunk of your home’s heat can be lost through the roof, you should also pay attention to the floors and what you can do to stop it seeping out here. One of the best solutions that you have available is to upgrade to a thicker and shaggier carpet as this is going to absorb the heat and stop it from being lost through the floor.

All of these are amongst the effective solutions that you have available for ensuring that you keep your home warm during the winter months of the year. Sometimes, the big solutions are going to have a significant impact, but it is also the smaller steps that you take that can all end up contributing as needed.

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