Heating / Cooling Tips
Just following these four simple tips can help reduce your heating and cooling costs.
- Turn off appliances when not in use – if you have left the office for the day or for the weekend, there is no need to keep heating or cooling running. If you don’t like arriving to a cold office in the morning, install an automatic timer that switches heating on half an hour before you arrive.
- Seal all draughts in windows and doors and, where possible, block unnecessary air vents to avoid warm/cool air loss. Leaks like these can add 20% to your heating costs and 15% to your cooling costs.
- Keep doors to little-used rooms closed and don't heat/cool them. If you have a central heating/cooling system, close vents in these rooms where possible. It may be cold in there in winter, but if you’re only going in to collect a ream of paper then leaving, does it really need to be fully heated?
- Put on / take off your jumper before you adjust the room temperature. Sounds too simple, but it’s the little actions like this that many people forget!