Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Central heating is convenient–just adjust one thermostat, and the heat for the whole house is handled–but it can also be a waste of energy, since it heats rooms that aren’t in use. Do you really need the bedroom to be 72 degrees in the middle of the day when no one is back there? Or do you need the heat on in the living room or home office at night?

If you’d prefer to save money by just heating the part of your house that your family is using, you might get some mileage out of the Vent-Miser Programmable Energy Saving Vent.

These special vents replace your existing floor/ceiling/wall vents and allow you to shut down heat to unoccupied rooms and force it into parts of the home where warm air is needed (they also work with central air conditioning systems).

The Vent Miser isn’t a replacement for your heating/cooling system, just an addition that runs independently. The battery-operated vents can easily be programmed for settings for each day of the week via three buttons, so you don’t have to think about turning them off and on once they’re set.

The programmable vents are certified to save you money on heating and cooling bills, and one reviewer at Amazon noticed a 30% savings after installing them.

They sell for $26 over there:

Vent-Miser Programmable Energy Saving Vent