Expert reveals best day to put up your Christmas tree to save on energy bills

Christmas lights tin beryllium costly but these tips tin assistance you chopped backmost connected costs (Image: Getty Images)

Christmas is accelerated approaching and with it often comes added outgo - if you’re looking to prevention connected lighting costs, an adept has shared the champion day to enactment up your tree.

Sam Tamlyn, Interior Expert and Managing Director astatine Shutterly Fabulous has identified the nonstop time to enactment up your Christmas histrion to walk little than £1 connected lighting.

By putting up your décor connected December 1, you tin support full Christmas lighting costs nether £4.

Lighting a Christmas tree with 9-watt fairy lights costs conscionable 66p for the full Advent period, says Tamlyn.

For many, keeping measure costs debased is an important origin to see erstwhile decorating for the festive season.

With energy rates present astatine 24.5p per kWh, homeowners tin illuminate their homes for good nether £4 during the festive play by pursuing Shutterly Fabulous’ advice, ending the twelvemonth without immoderate unpleasant surprises. 

Many who privation to enactment up Christmas lights effort to beryllium outgo businesslike with their festive decorations (Image: Getty Images)

Shutterly Fabulous analysed Amazon’s top-selling 9-watt fairy lights to cipher the outgo of lighting a Christmas histrion implicit the full Advent play (from 1 December to the Twelfth Night ‘6 January’) for nether £1. 

It concluded that the total outgo of moving your lights for averagely 8 hours per time implicit 37 days would beryllium astir 66p based connected existent powerfulness and vigor depletion figures. 

Lighting up an full location won’t interruption the slope either - Shutterly’s experts recovered that a operation of some indoor and outdoor decorations volition lone outgo £3.62. 

To prevention wealth connected Christmas lights, you tin usage LED lights which are much vigor businesslike and past longer than different bulbs meaning you’ll prevention wealth successful the agelong run. LED lights besides emit little vigor meaning they are harmless for location use.

Experts accidental its champion to enactment up your decorations connected 1 December (Image: Getty Images)

Another extremity is to acceptable a timer which tin assistance you to lone support your lights connected erstwhile needed. This reduces energy consumption and helps you to prevention wealth connected bills.

If you’re disquieted astir costs, you tin besides bounds usage of your lights - if you trim the fig of hours you support them connected each day, this tin marque a large difference.

Tamlyn said: “Christmas doesn’t person to interruption the bank. By choosing smarter choices for your festive lighting, specified arsenic utilizing LED lights and mounting timers, you person the champion of some worlds; a beautifully decorated location and precise debased vigor costs.” 

Using LED lights is much cost-effective (Image: Getty Images)