Posted: January 12, 2026

How to Improve Energy Efficiency in Your Home Heating

Add warmth to your home with a space heater from Buster Brown

We can say one thing with a great deal of certainty – once winter rolls around you want your home heating system to work efficiently and effectively. After all, an effective and efficient heater is what is going to keep you and your home warm and comfortable throughout the cold season.

Therefore, the question becomes what you can do to optimize your home heating system. Not only will optimizing your heater keep you warm, but also it will help reduce your energy bills. It’s a total win-win!

Follow the below tips from Buster Brown Propane to help improve your home heating system’s energy efficiency.

Call in the professionals

Just like most of the equipment that you have in your house, your home heating system needs annual professional maintenance. This is the best way to ensure that it is working at peak performance level.

On top of that, servicing appointments can catch small issues before they turn into large and expensive problems. They can also help extend the lifespan of home heating system.

What a homeowner can do for a home heating system

Aside from regular tune-ups from a professional service, homeowners should also be doing their part to help their heaters work properly. This can mean:

• Adding insulation to an attic or a roof: prevent heat from escaping and insulating your walls will reduce drafts.
• Keeping the doors to rooms that aren’t occupied closed: so that resources aren’t being used unnecessarily to warm those rooms.
• Installing weather stripping or caulking: to close up any gaps and drafts around your doors and windows.
• Keeping your curtains, blinds and shades open: when the sun is out to add some additional natural warmth to your home.
• Utilizing a smart thermostat: which lets you create heating schedules and adjust your home’s temperature while you’re out and about.
• Keeping your vents and registers clear: of any dust, furniture or curtains so that air can properly flow from your heater.
• Integrating zoned heating into your home: Since not every room in a house always needs to be heated at the same time you can close the vents that are in empty rooms so that the heated air is going to rooms that are full, add a zoned heating system that lets you keep specific rooms at different temperature than other rooms or invest in a space heater. This last part is something Buster Brown Propane is more than happy to help you with!

Add warmth to your home with a space heater from Buster Brown Propane

If you have a area in your East Texas home that doesn’t seem to get or stay warm, such as a garage, workshop or an addition, or if you are looking to add some efficiency to your home heating system consider a propane space heater from Buster Brown. Our team can help you find the space heater that will work best for your home and then we can install it for you.

Contact Buster Brown Propane today to learn more about the expert propane space heater installation services we offer throughout the East Texas area.