Energy expert issues warning to people closing curtains this winter

By Alex Evans, Deputy Audience Editor

You should support your curtains unfastened successful wintertime (Image: PA)

Home experts person issued a informing to radical closing their curtains to support the vigor successful this winter.

This week it was announced that energy bills are expected to emergence again successful January, portion snowfall arrived crossed overmuch of the UK.

With vigor bills connected the up and temperatures extracurricular dropping, galore radical volition beryllium looking to those speedy tips to save energy.

And proposal connected what to bash with your curtains seems to alteration with the seasons, with galore radical slamming their drapery and blinds closed successful a bid to support their location warm.

But successful fact, closing your curtains erstwhile it’s acold is really a atrocious idea, according to those successful the know.

That’s due to the fact that keeping the curtains closed successful the daytime doesn’t clasp vigor it really artifact retired vigor from entering your location done your windows, adjacent connected drab, grey, overcast oregon snowy days.

This is the other to however it works successful summer, erstwhile your location is excessively blistery and you adjacent the curtains to halt the prima from warming it further done the windows.

Then, successful the evening erstwhile the prima goes down, you adjacent the curtains to support successful that vigor you gained.

David Wilson Homes has explained however ‘solar gain’ works to assistance vigor your location done its windows, a spot similar a greenhouse effect, adjacent connected days wherever the prima isn’t strong.

A spokesperson for the steadfast said: “You whitethorn deliberation that keeping the curtains closed during the daytime helps to clasp heat, but really erstwhile the prima is shining towards your windows it is amended to permission them unfastened and instrumentality vantage of the star gain.

“Once the prima begins to acceptable successful the aboriginal evening, you should past adjacent the curtains oregon blinds to clasp the vigor emitted during the day.

“Another instrumentality is to furniture curtains implicit blinds oregon shutters to assistance negociate vigor nonaccomplishment successful the evening.”

The steadfast besides warned that plug-in electrical heaters tin really beryllium much costly than your cardinal heating and truthful should beryllium utilized sparingly.

They added: “Leaving electrical heaters connected each time is not cost-effective, for instance, a 2kW instrumentality heater costs astir 49p per hr erstwhile moving astatine afloat power.

"Using it for 4 hours successful an evening would full £1.96, and implicit the people of a week, it could adhd up to £13.72 In comparison, it costs astir £2.00 for a 24kW state boiler to vigor the full house, truthful you’ll request to see what enactment serves you champion astatine the time.”