Four Ideas For Green Home Heating

It can get cold in Utah sometimes, and thus it becomes important to try to keep your home warm. At the same time, Utah is one of those most beautiful states, and therefore trying to find ways to keep your house warm without messing up the environment isn’t such a bad thing either. It could even save you money; nothing wrong with that. It may seem odd talking about keeping warm during the summer, but knowing what to do ahead of being cold is smart timing. Here are four ways to help keep your house warm.

1. If your home faces east and west, it’s a smart move to open the curtains and blinds and let the sun help your house to warm up during the day. The morning sun isn’t as strong as the evening sun, but it can help take the chill off your home in the morning. In the evening, opening as many shades as possible can actually help increase the heat in your house as much as 10 degrees.

2. Electric isn’t going to cut it. Unless you live in a community that produces its own electricity, it’s imminently more expensive than gas. However, gas heaters aren’t preferred, and neither are kerosene heaters; both will do the job, but you might not appreciate the smell all the time. Instead, think about going the pellet heat route. Sure, it still takes a little bit of electricity to keep it going, but it’s been touted to save as much as 50% on regular heating bills. That, plus you can either get the small ones for individual rooms or actually change your heating system for a large one to heat the entire house.

3. If you have to go electric, then the best deal is to go for a low energy oil heater. They take time to get warm, but you get to set the temperature you’re looking for, and once it gets there you’ll not only feel very comfortable, but it will then maintain that temperature in the most energy efficient way. The oil will maintain the temperature you want longer, thus saving the energy expended by most heaters when they have to keep popping on and off, or run continuously.

4. Many people don’t know this, but having some kind of humidity in the home helps the heat to spread better and stay longer. Those who do often run humidifiers, but those not only use lots of energy, but they tend to spread calcium all over the house, even with a good filter. Instead, a great idea is to have a lot of live plants around the house. If you keep them watered, as the house warms up they’ll help put out some humidity naturally. If you have the money for it, a small greenhouse attached to your home can actually heat your entire house during the day.

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