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How to Reduce Your Gas Bill

If you use natural gas in your home, the bill can be quite expensive. Don’t worry, though! There are several strategies you can use to reduce your gas bill, like cutting back on your energy usage and making your home more energy efficient.

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2 Turn off the heat when you’re not home.
Don’t keep the heat on in your home when it’s not necessary. Turn off the heat when you’re at work or gone on the weekends. The energy saved will reduce the cost of your gas bill.^[2]
3 Save energy with radiator valves. Some areas in your home need to be warmer than others. For example, it may be important to you to keep the main floor warm, while the basement can be a bit cooler. You can control the heat by installing radiator valves on every radiator in your home.^[3]
- These self-regulating valves allow you to control the temperature of each room by adjusting the amount of hot water goes to the radiator.
4 Reduce the use of personal heaters. Personal, or space, heaters use up a lot of energy. Plus, they are an inefficient way of warming up large areas. Avoid using them and instead look for more efficient ways to keep warm—like improving your home’s insulation.^[4]
- If you want to warm a small space only, a personal heater may be more effective than heating the whole home with a furnace. Choose a radiant heater, which are more energy-efficient than other models.^[5]

1 Keep all vents and interior doors open if you have forced air. It is commonly thought that closing vents and doors to unused rooms will reduce energy use, but doing this actually drives up the cost of your gas bill.
Keep all the vents and interior doors in your home open to promote airflow.^[6]
- However, if you adjust a radiator valve to lower the temperature of a specific room, you can close the door to that room to prevent cooler air from leaking into warmer rooms.
2 Close your windows and exterior doors. If you leave your windows or exterior doors open during cold months, the warm air will simply escape. Be sure to keep all your window and exterior doors closed. If there’s a gap beneath a door, roll up a towel and place it against the bottom of the door to block out the cold air.^[7]
3 Keep your blinds open during the day and closed at night. During the day, keep your blinds, shades, or curtains open to let the sunlight in. This will help your house warm up. When the sun goes down, close all your blinds, shades, or curtains to keep the warm air in.^[8]
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