Summer is over and everything is heated again.
But how do you make the rooms warm up faster?
We have tips.
Anyone who comes home after a long day at work in autumn or winter wants to come to a warm apartment straight away.
But contrary to what you might have thought, the rooms will not warm up faster by setting the thermostat to the highest level *.
Quite the opposite: you just throw money out of the window unnecessarily.
We'll show you how to really make the apartment heat up quickly.
Heat your home properly: How to get warm rooms in record time
In order for the radiator to quickly heat the apartment, you need to ensure that it is
fully efficient
.
The first step is to bleed the heater.
You can tell whether a heater needs to be vented by the fact that it stays cold or only gets warm in the area around the water inlet.
Bubbling and gurgling noises are also an indication that there is
too much air in the radiator
.
You should then take a close look at which furniture may
restrict
the
air circulation around the radiator
.
This can be a sofa that stands directly in front of it or a curtain that covers the heating.
Always keep a distance to the device so that the warm air can also spread.
With thick curtains in front of the window - which, however, must not cover the heater - you ensure that cold window panes do not affect the room temperature.
At the same time, you should check whether the windows are properly insulated and the doors are tight.
Correct heating through correct ventilation - this is how it works
Anyone who does not ventilate properly during the heating season not only loses heat, but also wastes energy unnecessarily.
That is why a
window must not be permanently tilted or left open
- here the warm air is only heated from the window or the rooms cool down so that the heating has to do even more.
Also interesting
: If you forget to take this step when heating, you pay real money - and damage the environment.
The key words here are
intermittent and cross ventilation
.
That means: ventilate around four to five times a day for around five to ten minutes.
Open the opposite windows so that a draft is enabled - the air is completely exchanged within a very short time and you can close the window again.
While ventilating, turn off the heart bodies to prevent the thermostats from starting due to the cold air.
Heating when you are absent: turn it down rather than turn it off
If the heating is not running, it cannot use any energy - at least that is the thesis.
But it's not that simple.
In fact, heating often consumes more energy when reheating a room than if it was simply turned down a little before leaving the apartment.
You should therefore
not lower
the temperature in a room by
more than two degrees
.
This means that the rooms are not cooled down too much when you come back and the apartment can be heated to the optimal temperature more quickly.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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