10 hacks to keep warm and save money at home as temperatures set to plummet

Keeping your home warm during the winter months can be tricky as temperatures drop and energy prices remain high.

However, there are a number of tips and tricks you can try to make your home more energy efficient as well as keeping things cosy without adding lots of extra money to your bills at the end of the month.

To help out, TikTok account @thatpropertyguy shared 10 hacks to help keep your house warm, with some as simple as moving your furniture a little or closing your blinds. The social media video has been liked more than 115,000 times with more than 8,000 people sharing the clip to help out others. So, to help you keep cosy for less, here are the top 10 tips.

10 hacks to keep your house warm this winter

1. Bleed your radiators

This can help make your radiators run more efficiently as it will allow them to heat up properly. You should do this every year before the winter weather settles to make sure you are not colder or spending more money than you need to be.

2. Give your radiators a boost

You can do this by using reflective foil to reflect heat back into your room and away from the wall your radiator is mounted on.

This can help boost the amount of heat in your room without having to add any additional heating methods as it prevents heat loss through your walls.

Reflective foil for radiators can be snapped up from various online stores, such as Amazon. You can purchase Radiator Reflector Panels for just £13.99 from the online retail giant at the moment as part of its Black Friday sale.

3. Use thermostatic values

Woman's hand adjusting the thermostatic valve of the natural gas heater in room — Using a radiator valve to alter the power of your radiator in different rooms can help save money (Image: Getty)

These valves can be used to easily control the level of heat from each radiator in the rooms around your home. It means that you will not need to crank every radiator up to the max to heat up the room you are sitting in.

Instead, you can pop your living room radiator on high as you chill out and watch TV, your bedroom radiator on low to take the chill off before you head to bed, and even turn radiators in spare rooms down completely if they are not being used.

4. Programme your thermostat

Doing this can prevent you from wasting heat throughout the day.

You can set the time and temperature, meaning you can choose when you want your heating to go on and off and the temperature that shuts off your eating completely.

5. Close windows, blinds and curtains

Man closes curtains — Closing your windows, blinds and curtains can help keep the heat in your home (Image: Getty)

This can help you keep the heat in your home. Having windows open can allow heat from radiators to escape, meaning it can cost you money in time and money to keep your home cosy.

Shutting blinds and curtains can act as an extra seal to keep the heat in.

6. Move furniture away from radiators

Heat can become trapped behind furniture, with large bits of furniture such as your sofa actually absorbing heat. This means that your radiator needs to work harder to heat up the whole room.

Giving radiators space can be an effective when trying to heat your home more efficiently.