Getting Your Heating and Cooling Right! | The Heat Pump People

Everyone has had the problem of attempting to adjust the temperature in their home and it suddenly going too far the other way – too hot to too cold. Getting that sweet spot when heating and cooling your home is actually surprisingly difficult.

This poses a particular problem in the extremes of heat or cold, especially when you're going between different rooms with different windows and insulation qualities.

The trick is to maintain as much control over the different factors heating and cooling your home as possible.

The Heat Pump Peopleare passionate about our products heating and cooling your homes – however, here are a few more tips to get you thinking.

Keeping your blinds and curtains closed is one of the most effective ways of insulating your homes from the heat outside. If you're expecting a hot day, only open those blinds and curtains in the house that are absolutely necessary.

You may even want to invest in thick, black out curtains with a separate lining, if you have windows that allow a great amount of heat in.

Be sure to close off unused rooms to prevent cool air travelling out from your space to an unused part of the house. This is particularly true for closing off those rooms which naturally let more heat in.

However, the opposite goes for when the air cools outside - open the doors at night to allow the cool air to circulate and cool down your home.

Bathroom fans and fans in the kitchen are designed to suck hot air out of the home and dispense with it outside. You don't want your kitchen operating as a heater when you're trying to get cool.

Curtains and blinds are good for the opposite effect when you're trying to keep the home warm. Let the sun in during the day to heat up the rooms, and then close the curtains at night to trap in the heat.

Have you ever struggled out of bed on an icy morning, and gone shivering to turn on the heater?

Well, you could be using a timing operated heating system that turns it on half an hour before you get out of bed. A sure fire way to reduce morning misery.

A lot of people, especially when trying to get heat from a single source, have a tendency to move their couches and chairs close to that source so they can be 'close to the warmth'. However, this prevents the heat from properly circulating in the room – and will leave you with cold and hot patches. Consider the positioning of your furniture and whether a heat pump that will circulate the heat (or cool air) would be more effective.

The important principle to heating and cooling your home is to think of how the air flows through your property - and how best you might regulate those flows. A heat pump is a perfect place to start - contact us todayto find out more!