How to Keep Warm When Heating Fails You

Its inevitable that at some point in your lifetime your heating system is going to fail you. The most common issue we encounter is the collapse of our gas central heating system. The trouble being unlike an electric fire, gas central heating boilers have so many different components that ca go wrong.  Once you can track down a heating engineer, the chances of them being able to rectify the problem on the day they first show is highly unlikely.  Of course the biggest issue is that its not very likely that your central heating is going to fail in the heart of summer, no its going to happen when winter kicks in and it’s a strong chance that this will occur the minute that you get that first really cold snap.

Having suffered a number of times in my life with a lack of heating it was only yesterday in conversation that I discovered that very few people know how to keep warm in the winter without heating.

Please note that some of my methods are not cost effective, some are borderline dangerous but if you follow my instructions you could be in for a much warmer time when heating lets you down.

First up and I appreciate this might not always be a possibility is portable heating. Oil filled radiators are a good option, they are more cost effective than a lot of heating options and they are fairly reliable to leave on unattended providing you don’t let anything over hang them or nowhere near anything flammable. Positioning is pivotal. To stay cost effective you only want to be buying two of these in the UK this can be achieved for about forty five pounds. It depends on the sort of property you inhabit but if you live in a standard house the best thing to do is leave one on the ground floor in the hallway, and one upstairs in the hallway. If it can be achieved the middle of the hallway is the best location. Leave the doors of the rooms you are going to inhabit open and shut the doors on the rooms you’ll seldom use. Now others might dissuade this action, but you have to bear in mind that if you heat only certain rooms, the minute you open doors the heat will shoot out so if you heat the corridors into the rooms you use you stand more chance of circulating even temperatures. Another really good point is that oil filled radiators do not dry up the air like convectors or halogen heaters.