With the cost-of-living crisis continuing to impact homes and businesses across the UK, many people are starting to think about how they can stay warm on a budget this winter. If you’re looking for some tips and tricks, keep on reading!
How Can I Stay Warm On A Budget?
These are some of our key tips to help you gear up for the winter and stay warm at home.
Block Out Draughts
Identifying where you are losing heat or letting cold air in is a good first step. The last thing you need is to be heating up your home and having warm air escape under doors or through gaps in your window. Draught excluders and investing in good curtains can help to prevent heat loss in your home, meaning you aren’t wasting so much energy heating up your home.
Layer Up
It may sound simple but it’ll do wonders for keeping you warm at no extra cost. Sticking to a few thinner layers will help keep your body nice and insulated. And don’t be afraid to layer up your socks too! Walking on tile or laminate flooring in the colder months can make your feet cold, so layering socks or wearing slippers is a good idea.
Insulation
If you don’t have insulation in your home, you may want to consider having it installed this year! Insulation is great for regulating the temperature of your home in cold months and hotter parts of the year.
Hearty Meals & Hot Drinks
Having home cooked hearty meals like breads, soups and other warming foods will help promote warmth in your home. Also, drinking hot drinks like coffee, cups of tea or hot chocolates throughout the day can help you get a little burst of warmth, and can be quite relaxing to enjoy during the evening time.
Oil Heating
Oil heating is actually more cost effective than relying on electricity to heat your home. If you have an oil boiler or oil furnace, your home is likely to heat up way faster and use up less energy than an electric boiler. Oil heating is one of the most efficient heating methods for home heating, so during this time of rising energy bills, moving to oil heating for your home could be the most cost effective option!
FuelSmart
If you would rather spread your costs out month by month than paying larger one-off bills, then you would benefit from FuelSmart - offered here at Northern Oil.
FuelSmart is the simplest, most reliable and hassle-free way to ensure that you always have plenty of heating in your oil tank. Upon fitting a wireless, radar-based level monitoring device to the top of your fuel storage tank (which we will carry out at no further service cost!), we will remotely monitor your tank using the most up-to-date telemetric technology, so that you’re never without fuel. We will agree an affordable monthly amount with you to be taken by direct debit, which will cover the cost of your fuel deliveries. Save money and spread the costs of your fuel the smart way by using FuelSmart.
Northern Oil
If you’re looking for a reliable oil supplier for your
domestic needs, here at Northern Oil we offer an oil delivery service to get your oil straight to you in a timely manner. We want to help as many homes as possible stay warm this winter. If you want to find out more about our domestic oil supplier services, you can check out our website. Or, alternatively you can
contact us today to speak to our team directly!
