Heating costs in mind: This is how you save in the cold season!

Heating costs in mind: This is how you save in the cold season!

In view of increasing energy prices and the associated challenges, tenants have: Interior and owner: Inside, the right to better understand their heating accounts. According to reports the Rhineland-Palatinate Consumer Center Rheinland-Palatinate are incorrectly in front of a third of all heating cost bills: In the inside, there is a problem. In order to keep an overview of the heating costs in these times, it is important to know when additional costs are passed on to consumers:

homeowners: Inside, price increases directly, while tenants are made differently depending on their contract with the landlord. Price adjustments are particularly possible for contracts without a price guarantee, but levies in contracts with such a guarantee can also be passed on to the tenants: inside. In order to effectively reduce the heating costs, there are some helpful tips:

tips for reducing heating costs

• lower the room temperature when nobody is at home, but avoid completely cooling.
use
• smart thermostatic valves to automatically regulate the temperature.
• pay attention to the quality of the thermal insulation, window and heating technology; energetic renovations recommended.
Reduce
• hot water consumption through savings braids or perlators.
• radiators do not deliver with furniture or other objects.
• recommended temperatures: about 20 ° C for living rooms and 15 ° C for bedrooms.
• Set the thermostats on the radiator correctly and lower at night or before leaving the apartment.
• consciously reduce hot water consumption in everyday life.

In apartment buildings, it is necessary to distribute heating and hot water costs according to consumption, whereby hot water meters are necessary to determine personal consumption. Households that consume less than 30 liters of hot water per person are considered economical. The energy advice of the Consumer center offers support for questions about heating costs. This can help with the evaluation of billing and clarify individual questions.

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