These Five Tips Are Easy Ways to Improve Your Home Heating Efficiency
It’s the middle of winter in the Buckeye State and cold weather is upon us. Are you looking at your utility bills and wishing they weren’t so high? Well, here are five tips to improve your home heating efficiency for the next few months until the sunshine and warm weather returns to Central Ohio.

5 Easy Tips to Improve Home Heating Efficiency
1. Properly insulate all of your doors, windows, and attic. Keep your windows locked to help keep them totally closed and sealed.
2. Use insulated curtains or blinds to help keep heat inside. Keeping your existing curtains or blinds closed can help, too.
3. Use a programmable thermostat to adjust temperatures in your house based on your family’s daily schedule. If your house will be empty for an extended period of time every day, adjust the temperature down a few degrees when no one is home.
4. Maintain a proper humidity level inside your house, which in the winter usually means increasing it. Humidity has a big influence on how warm or cold you actually feel. Here’s an explanation from howstuffworks.com – “Humans are very sensitive to humidity, as the skin relies on the air to get rid of moisture. … If the relative humidity is low, we can feel much cooler than the actual temperature because our sweat evaporates easily, cooling us off. For example, if the air temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit and the relative humidity is zero percent, the air temperature feels like 69 degrees Fahrenheit to our bodies.”
5. Make sure that all of your heating vents are open and are not blocked by any furniture. Closed or blocked air vents will prevent the warm air from your furnace from getting to where you want it to go.
6 (Bonus). Have your heating system tuned up and maintained by CARE Heating and Cooling.

The Importance of Furnace Maintenance
While all of these tips can help to save money and improve your home heating efficiency, annual furnace maintenance is the most important. A furnace tune up from CARE Heating and Cooling will help prevent breakdowns and reduce your utility consumption. We can catch small problems and fix them before they become big ones. A tune up will also ensure your family’s safety – at CARE any time we service a gas furnace, we run a computerized combustion analysis and perform a check for carbon monoxide.

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