20 electricity saving tips for your home
1. Keep your appliances clean and well maintained. Vacuum the coils of the fridge. Clean the filters on your wall heater. Clean the filters in your dishwasher. Keep an eye on build-up in your washing machine and dishwasher. Vacuum out your computer, it attracts dust which makes the fan work much harder.
2. Have appliances such as heaters and air conditioners checked out annually by a qualified service technician. This can reduce the appliance’s operating costs by as much as 20%, extend the life of the system, and improve its safety and air quality.
3. When using air conditioners, it is best to establish your comfort temperature, and then set your thermostat at that level permanently. This will definitely save on electric bills because the air conditioning unit takes less energy to cool air four to five degrees than it does to cool air eight to ten degrees.
4. Keep your deep freezer full. Fill empty bottles with water and use them to fill space in your freezer, you freezer is more efficient because objects hold the cold, whereas air needs to be constantly cooled down.
5. If you experience a power outage, keep your fridge and freezer closed as much as possible to conserve the cold air inside so your food does not spoil.
6. In refrigerators, do not over stuff compartments with bottles and plastic containers. Cool air must circulate freely to avoid overworking the condenser. Don't have your fridge set to such a low temperature that it freezes your food.
7. Hang dry your washing. Electric dryers use huge amounts of power. If you have central heating vents, you can hang your washing on a rack and place the rack over or under a vent.
8. Always use energy saving lights or light bulbs. These energy saving lights or light bulbs usually last up to 12 times longer. Plus, energy saving light bulbs consume less energy.
9. In winter, set your heating a little lower and put a sweater on.
10. Turn off lights and appliances when not in use. This one is a no-brainer. Why would you leave something turned on when nobody is using it?
11. Install lined curtains and draw them in the evening to keep the heat in. Or during a hot day, to keep the heat out.
12. Don't heat or cool rooms you are not using.
13. Turn heating off, or lower, at night.
14. Block drafts coming in under doors with a rolled up towel.
15. Insulate your hot water heater, wrap it up to keep the heat in it.
16. Consider installing double glazed windows. They keep the heat out in summer and the heat in, in winter.
17. Turn appliances off at the wall. TVs and computers still draw decent amounts of power when in standby mode.
18. When using your oven, cook several things at once, or one after another. This saves your oven using energy to heat up from cold multiple times.
19. On a cold day when you've finished using the oven, leave the oven door ope so the residual heat can help heat the house.
20. Instead of leaving outdoor security lights on all night, install a sensor, so they only light up if they detect movement.
There they are, twenty electricity saving tips, see how many you can initiate today.
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