How to Reduce Your Gas and Electricity Bills

One way to reduce your gas and electricity bills is to find a cheaper supplier. There are a number of suppliers competing for your business, and it is worth shopping around. Savings are available, for example with British Gas, whose Dual Fuel price plan for gas and electricity can work out much cheaper, especially if you sign up for paperless billing.

Another way to reduce your bill is to make your home more energy efficient. There is lots of advice available on how to achieve this, but here are some of the key steps you can take to reduce the amount of energy you consume.

Make sure that your home is well insulated with adequate loft insulation and double-glazing. Loft insulation alone can knock up to two hundred pounds a year off your heating bills.

Try getting your walls insulated with cavity wall insulation or solid wall insulation. Roughly thirty per cent of the heat in your home is lost through your walls, so just by insulating your walls correctly you could save significant amounts of money.

It may also be worth contacting your local council as some local authorities offer reduced rates on energy saving home improvements.

Eliminate drafts to help keep you house nice and cosy. Get brushes fitted to your letterbox as this will keep drafts out. If you can seal up all the gaps between your flooring and skirting boards, you could save up to £50 on your heating bill.

Your boiler is due to be replaced if it is over fifteen years old. You can really help cut your carbon emissions and save money if you install an efficient condensing boiler to heat your home and your water. Modern condensing boilers are much more efficient than conventional boilers, and convert more of the fuel into heat.

When buying or replacing appliances in your home such as washing machines and dishwashers, check the energy rating. Sometimes the cheapest appliances have a poor energy rating and will cost you, and the environment, more in the long run than slightly more expensive, more efficient machines.

Choose British Gas over other another electricity supplier and get great energy prices for your gas electric or dual fuel.