Safe (and cheap!) ways to keep your home warm
In our experience, keeping your home warm during those frosty winter months has more to do with trapping in the heat, rather than creating more of it.
Get started by doing a walking tour of your home and take note of the uninsulated areas, like space in between your door and your floor, as well as any thin windows.
To shore up your too-high doors, we recommend either investing in—or making your own—draft guards. Adding these to the rooms will help you have a fighting chance against any heat that might escape under that space. Learn how to make your own, by clicking here.
As far as thin windows are concerned, we always make sure that ours are covered in bubble wrap in the colder months. Just a layer or two on the interior sides will do. Although the hack may not be an especially pretty one, it sure has had quite the positive impact on our steep winter electric bill!
Now that you know about some good alternatives to those costly and potentially dangerous space heaters, it’s time for you to see just how damaging an unattended space heater can be. To see a simulation of a space heater going up in flames, be sure to watch the video below. Here’s to a warm and fire-free winter!
From: http://tiphero.com/space-heaters-power-strtips/
