This Morning expert Alice Beer has offered three tips to change settings on your central heating that could save huge amounts off your heating bills. Alice explained tips on how to save energy to hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, reports The Mirror.
She people need to think about the thermostats in the house.
Alice said: "There's three thermostatic controls that you should have a look at. The first one you need to look at is the thermostat that's usually in your hall. Now a lot of people won't have their heating on at the moment; the majority of people, according to British Gas, switch their heating on in the week beginning October 24. That's about half term week when we put our heating on.
"Now that thermostat is usually in the hall. One in 5 have got that set at 22 degrees - that's Lanzarote temperatures. What it should be set at is somewhere around the 18 degrees. We know that if you turn it down, that will save you - with current figures - at least £80 a year. So that is one vital thing that we should all be doing. Absolutely, definitely."
The second thermosats are temperature controls attached to each radiator - the valves that usually have numbered or gradiants and can be turned up and down. Alice said: "If you've got a valve on your radiator, you need to be controlling that to get to the right level of temperature. And most importantly, you need to turn that right off if you're not using a room. You've got a spare room, dining room, any room you're not using very often, turn that valve right off."
The third thermostat is found on your boiler and controls the temperature that water reaches.
Alice said: "Now if you run a bath or you fill a bowl to wash up and you're heating your water to a certain temperature, and then having to add cold, then think about how you're wasting money there. Paying to heat up the water and then adding cold to it, it makes no sense."
She said that the thermostatic control on water should be about 60 degrees and shouldn't be any higher. If you've got small children in the house, it should be a lot less.
"Try it at 55 and then if you can do it a little lower, you will notice the difference in your bills."
*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV
