Heating properly: Knowing this can save you a lot of money

When it comes to heating your own four walls, do you think you are doing everything right?

Maybe something can be optimized at one point or another.

Heating is currently very expensive *.

In view of the rising costs, how can you save a little money at least in one area or another?

In many households, this question arose first when it came to the thermostat on the radiator.

As a guideline, you should note that

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 often 

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, as the consumer advice center informed.

Heating thermostat: which numbers represent which temperatures?

Because

only very few people know

what the numbers on the

actually mean, according to the sustainability

.

According to the experts, the numbers stand for "fairly accurate" room temperatures - this is what it looks like:

• Level 1

  : about 12 degrees

• Level 2

  : about 16 degrees

• Level 3

  : about 20 degrees

• Level 4

  : about 24 degrees

• Level 5

  : about 28 degrees

"On the radiator thermostat, the individual levels are divided again by three lines," it says on

Each line stands for one degree.

The specified temperatures would apply “to almost all thermostats”.

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Nevertheless, according to the advice, the real room temperatures could differ slightly.

For example, when curtains covered the heater or through window sills above the heater.

This saves you money when heating at home

Another piece of advice: the thermostat only controls the desired 

.

If you set the thermostat to level five, you don't just wait as long as you would with level three until it is warm again.

Rather, it may even heat longer if it is not turned back in time.

Which means that heating costs rise unnecessarily.

Also interesting:

According to

Programmable radiator thermostats are also recommended - you can use them to determine, for example, that the heating should be throttled at a certain time at night and restarted early in the morning.

And thereby save a lot of money in terms of energy and money.

"Programmable thermostats usually need a battery that has to be replaced every one to two years," the portal reports.

Cheap models are available from around 15 euros.