Do you know the ideal temperature for your home in winter?
To have a cozy little nest without blowing your bill, the good temperature is 19°C .
No need to overheat your house!
It's not good for your wallet, your health or the environment.
Know that heating your house to 1°C more means consuming 7% more energy, according to Ademe.
Over a year, I assure you that it really hurts the wallet!
To help you save money, here is the practical guide to know what is the ideal temperature in each room e . Watch:
As you will have understood, 19°C is actually an average for the whole accommodation.
The ideal is to be able to modulate the temperature according to the rooms.
So you don't need to heat the bedrooms as much as the living room for example.
Here are Ademe's recommendations for the temperatures of each room in the house:
- Living room, dining room and living room: 19°C
- Bedrooms: 17°C
- Baby room: 19°C
- Bathroom: 19°C
- Kitchen: 19°C
- Toilets: 17°C
- Corridor, entrance, laundry room, storage room: 17°C
- While you are away or at night: 16°C
- Unoccupied rooms or during an absence of more than 24 hours: 12°C.
For the less cautious among you, know that you can easily lower each of these temperatures by one or two degrees.
There are tricks to regulate the temperature in each room. For example, room thermostats.
An outdoor sensor allows the room thermostats to adapt the indoor temperature according to the outdoor temperature.
There are also programmers that can help regulate the temperature at home.
Even better, some smart thermostats like the Nest allow you to control your home temperature from your smartphone.
Handy for turning off the heating remotely when you forgot to turn it off when you left in the morning.
But some people are more chilly than others and suffer more from the cold. No need to turn up the heating!
These recommendations can easily be adapted and personalized to each person's needs:
- an electric blanket or simply a plaid will allow everyone to be warm at night without increasing the heating. Don't forget that you sleep badly in a room that is too heated.
- in the bathroom, a heated towel rail allows you to have a hot towel after the shower to wrap yourself in. It's much more pleasant than turning up the heating unnecessarily!
There are also plenty of simple and effective tips for keeping warm at home without spending a fortune.
Here are the 10 best tips to easily save money on your bill while keeping warm:
1. Use a hot water bottle in bed to warm up.
2. Use newspaper to insulate your windows.
3. You can also use bubble wrap.
4. Or plastic overglazing film.
5. Make a homemade draft excluder out of newspaper.
6. Don't forget to wear a sweater (or even two) even at home.
7. Use aluminum foil to increase the power of the heater.
8. Remember to drink as many hot drinks as possible.
9. Don't forget to close the shutters at night.
10. Use an electric blanket to stay warm.
Now that you know the ideal temperature in each room in winter, you need a device to measure it.
For that, nothing could be easier! Just invest in a small home thermometer like this. It has the advantage of also displaying the humidity level in the room.
It only costs a few euros and it will allow you to always keep an eye on the temperature of the room.
The best is obviously to have one for each room.
