How to keep a good temperature at home

Here are some ideas to maintain a good temperature at home:

• An adequate isolation: to avoid heat loss and get it to be kept into the room, it's indispensable to have a good isolation. Using double glass in the lock of doors and windows let us to save money in the energetic consume of heating.
• A good maintenance of the heating system: indispensable to discover if our radiators have pressure losses. That is why it is necessary purging them regularly, to use the maximum part of the heat that they send out.
• Keep the temperature between 16º and 20º: The Consumers and Users Organization of Spain (OCU) advise to keep the temperature at 20º during the day and at 16º at night.
• To get good regulation of the temperature it's recommended to install programmable thermostats, to let us stable the temperatures of the different stays of the house, depending on the occupation that they have during the day.
• A good us of the blinds: If we live somewhere with a good solar irradiation we need to take advantage of the natural heat that enters through the windows to heat up the different stays and to consume less heating. At night, instead, we have to take down the blinds to minimize the loss of the heat that entered during all the day.
• Using a heater reflector: It's a flexible sheet, with a thin insulating foam and a silver metallic surface, which are placed between the wall and the radiator. They work like a mirror, preventing the heat from spreading on the wall into the heater.

These tips will help you to reduce the energetic consume at home and to keep a nice warm temperature during the coldest days.