This Morning expert Alice Beer has come to the aid of viewers hoping to reduce their heating bill this winter as prices are set to spiral.
Struggling households are resorting to a number of clever hacks in order to keep their families warm and fed in the wake of the cost of living crisis, with one mum sharing her spreadsheet hack to feed her family of five and others rushing to buy a £12 item that cuts heating costs.
Appearing on This Morning, Alice explained tips on how to save energy to hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
Referring to the boiler first as she questioned what measures the government were going to tell the public in the controversially scrapped energy advice plan.
She explained that the first thing that people need to think about is thermostats in the house.
"There's three thermostatic controls that you should have a look at," she said. "The first one you need to look at is the thermostat that's usually in your hall. Now a lot of people won't have their heating on at the moment; the majority of people, according to British Gas, switch their heating on in the week beginning October 24. That's about half term week when we put our heating on.
"Now that thermostat is usually in the hall. One in 5 have got that set at 22 degrees - that's Lanzarote temperatures. What it should be set at is somewhere around the 18 degrees. We know that if you turn it down, that will save you - with current figures - at least £80 a year. So that is one vital thing that we should all be doing. Absolutely, definitely."
Alice moved onto the second thermostat that people might have, explaining it would be on the radiators.
"If you've got a valve on your radiator, you need to be controlling that to get to the right level of temperature," she said. "And most importantly, you need to turn that right off if you're not using a room. You've got a spare room, dining room, any room you're not using very often, turn that valve right off."
Finally, she referred to the first control that she said many people didn't know much about.
"That controls the temperature of the hot water running through your living room," she said. "Now if you run a bath or you fill a bowl to wash up and you're heating your water to a certain temperature, and then having to add cold, then think about how you're wasting money there. Paying to heat up the water and then adding cold to it, it makes no sense."
She said that the thermostatic control on water should be about 60 degrees and shouldn't be any higher. If you've got small children in the house, it should be a lot less.
The third control is usually found in a boiler cupboard and you should be able to turn the temperature up and down.
"Try it at 55 and then if you can do it a little lower, you will notice the difference in your bills," she said.
*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV
