If your home is in need of heating repair, you may be putting it off. Finances are an issue for many Americans, and if you truly can't afford any home improvements, there are alternative ways to keep warm.
Amid our nation’s current economic difficulties,
many homeowners are increasingly stingy about paying for needed repairs, and heating repair work is also finding themselves on the back burners of homeowners’ to-do lists, which could be more accurately referred to as to-find-money-to-pay-to-have-done lists. A keeping-up-with-the-Joneses materialistic mindset tends to promote placing a priority on the kinds of things neighbors or passers-by will readily notice, and HVAC issues certainly aren’t visible to the casual observer.
However, the charred remains of all your worldly possessions would be a bit more unsightly than siding that could use a new coat of paint or landscaping that’s fairly lacking. Yes, failing to secure the needed heating repair services can lead to house fires, which can affect more than your treasured stuff: The lives of those you love are hanging in the balance.
If you know that your home needs heating repair work done but you truly can’t afford to have your system serviced at this point, there is one major preventative measure you can take to ensure that your family is at minimal risk and that you take care of the problem as soon as you can possibly do so financially: Do not turn on the heat.
If your system needs repairs, turning on the heat can prove to be truly hazardous to your health. To prevent hypothermia, these are the two methods can help take the edge off of the bitter cold: internal warming and external warming.
1. Internal warming
This can take the form of eating hot food and guzzling hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, and hot cocoa. Of course, alcoholic consumption can also help people feel as if they are warmer than they truly are, but the lack of lucidity that comes along with such lack of feeling can cause additional dangers, so it is not recommended.
Some women find that the inner “hot water bottle” formed through pregnancy can bring added heat to one’s body, but attaining such a status may not be advisable if money is an area of such great concern.
2. External warming
Basically, this is what those who lived before the time of central heating systems did: They bundled up. Adding extra clothing, blankets, and hot water bottles can help elevate the body’s temperature, greatly. Hats and heating pads can also be employed. As long as your clothes dryer is in good working order, you can use the devices to heat up blankets and clothing for additional (if short-lived) warmth. A popular favorite method of external warming is good, old-fashioned cuddling.
Body heat from other family members, and even pets, can help you stay warm; what’s more, it might remind you that even if you can’t afford to have your heating repair needs met, at least you still have each other.
After a while, internal and external warming methods are bound to fall short. Even if you have to take on an extra job, eventually you’ll find a way to afford heating repair services you need.
