31 ways to save on winter heating for $30 or less

Blankets between rooms can hold heat in a smaller area.
Or setting an old jacket along the bottom of an outside door.

Using heat tape can keep from heating the whole area they are in.
And even though many of the heat tapes are temperature regulated.
Putting the heat tape on a timer can reduce the power used. On for a half hour, off for 1 1/2 hours will often keep them from freezing.
On real cold nights it might need changed to on for 1/2 then off for an hour.
Makes the heat tape last longer too.

I have plastic on the outside of the whole west wall in my drafty old house.
Black plastic lasts way longer in the sun.

This thread came up in my e-mail. Maybe something was changed to the first post. Anyway: I think it's the right time to 'bump it up'

As I am sitting on my couch in the corner of the room that's the furthest away from the windows, with my wool blanket over my lap and legs, I feel very comfortable. It's even better when the sun shines in through the (South-East facing) window. On such moments the sun heats my living-room more than the temperature I set the thermostate on (19,5 degrees Celsius), so the central heating doesn't go on.

The living-room is the only room in which the heating works with that thermostat. In all other rooms there are radiator-thermostat-buttons (I hope you understand what I mean), to regulate only that one radiator, and I put all of them on '1', the lowest setting. I don't need real heating in those rooms (the kitchen, my bedroom, the 'guest room' and the utility room) , because I only enter them when I am busy doing something, or when I (go to) sleep.

I have to add: I live in a ground-floor apartment. I have neighbours left, right and above me. Maybe they heat my apartment, at least they give me 'insulation'.

Add some more: I can not leave my kitchen and guest room without any heating. That side of the house is damp. If I would not heat at all, there would be black mould on the outside walls!

I was reading early posts to this thread and a "dog bed heater" kept coming up. I initially thought the idea was that you invite your dog into your bed to heat it up. I was disappointed to learn what it actually is. I think the other idea is better.

Randy Eggert wrote:I was reading early posts to this thread and a "dog bed heater" kept coming up. I initially thought the idea was that you invite your dog into your bed to heat it up. I was disappointed to learn what it actually is. I think the other idea is better.

I thought the same thing that you did, so what is it actually?

Anne Miller wrote:

Randy Eggert wrote:I was reading early posts to this thread and a "dog bed heater" kept coming up. I initially thought the idea was that you invite your dog into your bed to heat it up. I was disappointed to learn what it actually is. I think the other idea is better.

I thought the same thing that you did, so what is it actually?

Apparently is a heating pad designed for a dog kennel.

Randy Eggert wrote:

Apparently is a heating pad designed for a dog kennel.

Thanks , yes that is a thing.