How winter-prepping your home in summer saves money

With a few weeks to go before the nights close in, this is the time to get homes to the best level of energy efficiency and comfort

Even enjoying the carbon-neutral performance of an air-source heat pump, it's vital to fully understand the system and its settings to get the best from your central heating. Picture: Daiken

After a rocky winter for all of us in 2022/2023, and with a few weeks to go before the nights close in, this is the time to get our homes to the best level of energy efficiency and comfort we can manage. There’s always something more we can do. 

Rather than taking on the most nerve-shredding, expensive retrofits, let’s take on some positive straightforward prepping, increase our understanding of our mothership and its systems, and acknowledge self-defeating bad habits.