Martin Lewis reveals five tips for keeping warm WITHOUT putting the heating on ... trends now
As winter continues to drag on and people in the UK feel the chill, Martin Lewis has shared some of his tips to keep warm without breaking the bank.
The Money Saving Expert is on a crusade to help people struggling with soaring heating and energy bills amid the cost-of-living crisis that has gripped Britain.
On his ITV programme, The Martin Lewis Money Show, the financial guru revealed a number of useful tricks to keep the temperature up that some viewers may not have thought of.
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Energy prices have more than doubled since 2021, and although the Government has introduced a scheme to limit the impact on households, many are trying to find ways to cut their bills
Lewis said while effectively layering your clothes can help, there are other ways to keep warm when you have the central heating turned off.
On the November programme, the 50-year-old said his team had done research in how to keep warm and how to save people money during the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
'It was really depressing, the fact that we needed to do it because of the way energy prices were going and the way some people wouldn’t be able to turn their central heating on,' Lewis said.
'As it turned out the research that we did has been really useful, not just for people who are in desperate states... but for many who just want to reduce their central heating.'
Energy costs have soared, with Ofgem's price cap rising again this month to such an extent that an average family home would pay £4,279 a year for gas and electricity.
The Government's Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) means prices are capped at £2,500 based on typical use for an average household, but this will rise to £3,000 in April.
While energy prices are expected to finally drop in the summer, that will come as little comfort to those struggling to pay bills at the moment, with many desperately trying to cut back on their electricity, gas and water use.
Lewis has urged people to try the 'one degree challenge', where people turn their thermostat down by 1C in a bid to save electricity.
He said doing this could save people 10 per cent on their heating bill, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying healthy adults should be ok with their thermostat at 18C.
He added that there are other tricks to save money such as fitting free water saving shower heads, making sure the temperature of your fridge and freezer are not too low and turning the temperature on your boiler down to 60C if is higher than this, with the latter of these potentially saving £100 a year from your heating bill.
These are some of Martin Lewis's tips to keep you warm without putting the heating on:
Clothes heated by electricity
While many already known about electric blankets, there are a host of other electrical items that can help people stay warm at home.
These clothes are cheap and cost-effective, with some using as little as 1p of electricity per hour, the read more from dailymail.....
