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Taking simple steps to reducing draughts can have a tremendous effect on heating energy consumption, which is essentially made up of two parts:

1. the energy require to heat the cold air that comes into the building.
2. the energy that escapes through the building fabric (roof, walls, windows etc.)

Of course you need a certain level of ventilation in a house, but draughty windows and doors make for a level of ventilation that’s much higher than necessary, and lead to very high heating bills. Not to mention a cold house….

Cheap draught excluding tape and so on gives some serious energy-saving bang for your buck.

One other point about energy-efficient CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps): it’s obvious really, but the savings you get from replacing an old-fashioned light bulb with a CFL depend on how much the light is usually switched on. I’m not saying you should leave lights on to save money - of course that doesn’t make sense! However, if you have a light in an under-stairs cupboard that gets switched on for about 5 minutes every year, it’s not worth replacing it with a CFL - don’t forget that energy goes into making that CFL, after all… However, if the lights in your living room are on for 6 hours every evening, that’s a completely different story - swap them for CFLs as fast as you can!