Heating. Tips for cutting home heating bills - Continued

Use a blanket or a sheet and fold it up to stop the airflow during the coldest of winter months. There are specialty pillows that are made just for this but you do not have to buy anything, a felt blanket does the same job.

Back up in the attic of your home, you need to have a good layer of insulation along the entire portion of your home. If you don’t use your attic, or even if you use your attic, there should be some amount of insulation on the attic floor to prevent the warm air from rising through the ceilings and out through your attic. You can use rigid insulation, which is the easiest to work with, insulation or blown insulation and get the same results. 

Have your furnace checked regularly, at least once a year. Cleaning the filter or changing the filter is going to cut back on how hard the furnace has to work to heat your home. Every five to ten years you might want to consider replacing your thermostat as well. While this is an inexpensive item, if the thermostat is off it can cause your furnace to run more often. 

Have your thermostat put in the room where you spend most of your time. If the thermostat is in a hallway or basement where there are more drafts, the furnace is going to run more often. If the thermostat is put on an inside wall, in the living room, this will be a good gauge for how warm your home really is. The thermostat on an outside wall, the walls that are on the outside of your home, will feel colder because cold is being conducted through these outside walls and into your home.