Nowadays more and more are upgrading your homes to make their household more energy efficient. If you like the idea of living in an energy efficient house, here are some easy changes which you can conduct to achieve your goal.
Insulate your home – By adding a new or additional layer of insulation to your ceiling and exterior walls you will ensure that your home is properly sealed. This will keep the warm or cool air inside and the hot or cold air outside and will drastically reduce your consumption of energy. This will instantly make your home more energy efficient and more importantly reduce your utility bills.
Upgrade the frames of your windows – Studies show that approximately 34% of the interior air is lost due to faulty and damaged window frames. So by upgrading the frames of you windows you will eliminate this unwanted tendency and keep your interior air inside. This will once again reduce your consumption of energy.
Replace your old kitchen and bathroom appliances – Old appliances require a lot of energy and water and aren’t considered energy efficient, while new appliance are specially designed to work with as less energy and water as possible. And while replacing your appliances may be costly at first it will certainly be an investment that will return your money in the long run.
Use your appliances efficiently – Replacing your appliance will get the half of the job done. The other half is to learn how to use your new appliances efficiently. So instead of throwing the instruction books away, sit down and read them in order to learn which setting are the most energy efficient and how to program and use them.
Keep your water heater warm – The idea temperature for warm water ranges from 48°C and 60°C, so there is no need for you to go above this temperature range. Also don’t turn on and off your water heater and this requires a lot of energy. Instead set the heater at a setting and let it run. Modern heaters turn off on their own once the desired water temperature is reached.
Change your light bulbs – Replace all your incandescent bulbs with fluorescent ones. Although fluorescent light bulbs are more expensive they will save you a lot of money, as they have a longer lifespan and require less energy to provide to your household the levels of illumination that you seek. By doing this simply upgrade you will drastically increase the energy efficiency of your home and decrease the overall energy usage of your household.
Know that some of these upgrades will generate some amount of rubbish, which you will have to clear from your property. However if you are too tired to remove the waste on your own don’t worry and simply company a waste clearance company. These are specialized companies that provide rubbish removal services to people that either don’t have the time or knowledge to clear their waste on their own.
Don’t worry about the price of professional junk collection services, because most companies work with cost effective prices.