Winter is slowly creeping up on us and the temperatures have begun to drop dramatically in the past few weeks.
This cold snap has prompted the annual rush to the wardrobe to fish out the hats, scarves and gloves in preparation for another chilly end of the year.
Whilst being on the hunt for the big coat and thermals – it’s worth taking some time to think of how you can beat the chill inside the home without the stress of constantly thinking about your energy usage.
Keeping warm and comfortable in the colder months doesn’t need to be a big event. Fully insulating your home would obviously provide a great deal of warmth but it’s not always an option for some.
Fischer can provide a few simple tips and tricks that will keep you feeling consistently toasty.
Only Heat The Room You’re In
It doesn’t make sense to be wasting energy, and heating upstairs if you are spending the majority of the time downstairs. In the same way, you wouldn’t leave the Fischer’s HeatCore Radiators running if you weren’t in the house. With the exclusive Wireless Thermostat, you can heat and control only the rooms you are using.
All Fischer electric heaters can also be controlled from your smart phone or tablet. Enjoy even ultimate control over your heating and energy use by programming your electric heating system from home, work or even when you are enjoying a holiday with our Wi-Fi enabled thermostat!
Room by room heating is the perfect way to lower your energy use efficiently and smartly.
Explore Your Options
Deciding on what electric heating system you’d like in your home is the most important step of the journey to keeping warm. There is no point in installing a product that isn’t going to suit your needs and still make you uncomfortably cold.
An Electric Boiler might be suitable for one but an Air Source Heat Pump, is another. It’s not a one size fits all approach. Fischer has the solution, by offering free, no obligation heating surveys. It might even be the case that you keep your old gas boiler but only use it a few days a year as a top up!
Every heating installation means we will be able to recommend a heating solution that strikes the right balance between being powerful enough to meet peak demand for heat and being efficient enough to keep consumption and emissions down.
Wrap Up Warm
It sounds simple but many still forget one of the cheapest and most effective ways to keep warm in winter is to layer. Stocking up on those thick jumpers and woolly socks has the potential to drop energy usage, because you won’t need to use the heating.
Whilst it might be good to keep an eye on the degrees and the amount of layers you are stocking up on. At the first sign of a chill, pop a jumper on, wait 10 minutes and if the cold persists – then – reach for the thermostat…you won’t have to reach far…it’s wireless
Become A Masterchef
Well, not literally, but learning how to, or honing your cooking skills isn’t a bad idea when looking to keep warm in a creative way. Using the oven or the hob will provide the kitchen with additional heating whilst you whip up a masterpiece.
It’s also a great way to keep healthy and learn new dishes, you never know you might unlock a hidden talent!
Another great tip is, if the oven has been in use for an extended period of time, you can leave the door open to release all the pent up heat even after it’s been switched off!
Spend More Time Upstairs
Heat rises so it makes sense that if you stay upstairs, you’ll naturally be warmer. If there is the beginnings of a chill coming, make the excuse to change the bedsheets, clean the bathroom, anything that’ll keep you from that cooler downstairs areas.
If you are blessed with space, moving the office or the TV to a higher level in the home would be an optimal way to stay warm during those dark, gloomy evenings.
Conserve Your Usage
With Fischers HeatCore Radiators, the unique element is the 40mm HeatCore material.
Our HeatCore is made from a material called ‘Chamotte’ which is composed of silicon dioxide and aluminium oxide. The HeatCore works in conjunction with our wireless thermostat which detects the heating requirements of each room and adjusts to suit them by controlling the charge to the 40mm HeatCore.
This means the radiator will continue to give off heat even when it’s not drawing energy!
These are just a few tips to help out this winter – remember them, keep warm and it’ll be summer again in no time!
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