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As winter's icy grip nears, countless households find themselves with little option but to turn their heating systems up to maximum capacity. However, it's frequently the case that the warmth takes an extended period of time to spread throughout the space and heat it adequately.

A heating engineer from Your Plumber has revealed a vital adjustment housholds can implement to help them "channel the warmth" throughout their living spaces more rapidly, potentially delivering savings in both time and expense. One essential measure to enhance your heating performance is to do with furniture placement.

The specialist has unveiled a clever technique for maintaining a warm household - "put shelves above any radiators to stop wasted hot air rising".

To "channel the warmth into the room", an additional suggestion is to move any furniture, such as a sofa, away from any radiators.

One more recommendation is to "cover a thin sheet of card with tinfoil and place it behind your radiators".

This straightforward DIY trick will "reflect the heat back into the room", accelerating the heating process and preserving the temperature for an extended duration.

It's equally important to "bleed your radiators" to remove any "air pockets". Housholds can determine whether bleeding is required by checking around each radiator to confirm it warms uniformly, rather than solely at the lower section.

Mark Ingram, a technical gas and plumbing tutor at Engineering Real Results (ERR), emphasised the significance of bleeding radiators.

He said: "If when you touch all of the radiators you notice any cold spots, you might need to bleed air out of the system, which is an easy job people can do themselves.

"With bigger concerns, you should always seek advice from a registered Gas Safe engineer. As time goes on and the temperatures get cooler the demand will only get higher and people may find they have to wait days for an engineer to become available to fix their problem."