With the rising costs involved in heating your home you’ll need to figure out as many ways as possible to cut that heating bill.
One way you can save on heating this year is by blocking off rooms that you aren’t using. Why heat a room if you’re never in it. It’s wasted BTU’s which translates into wasted money. Money you could be saving.
To fully block off a room that you never use in your house from sucking up extra energy and raising your heating bill this year you’ll need to first close off any vents in the room. Chances are a little heat will still leak into the room but that’s good, you don’t want to turn it into an ice box.
Next remember to close the door and keep the door closed. Opening and closing a door to a room you never use would really make that a room you do use and it would be pointless to apply this money saving method to that room. But if you don’t use the room you can close the door and even throw a towel down on the floor to stop air from leaking in and out. That’ll keep the heat out and reduce the space you need to heat.
You’ll have to make sure you aren’t doing this in a bathroom you don’t use. I’m unsure if the pipes would really freeze but you can never be too careful. Check with a plumber before closing off rooms with pipes.
