Smart
energy efficiency will lower your utility bills. Here are 5 places to start.
· There is $215 in your living room – Start by replacing 5 bulbs on
the most used fixtures. Compact
fluorescent bulbs can reach a savings of $65 each in one year. Not only do they use less energy, but they
have a life span reaching 10 times longer than the incandescent bulbs you are
now using. That means savings for years
to come. Follow that up with a Lennox
ComfortSense 7000 thermostat and add another $150 per year to the living rooms
savings. In the summer, for instance,
this unit will managing your cooling dollars by lowering the temperature while
you are at home and let it alone while you are at work or sleeping.
· $145 is sitting in the bathroom.
By replacing your shower a 2.5-gallon per minute model and keeping your
shower time to 10 minutes you are going to be saving 5 gallons and up to $145
per year.
· You can gather up another $74 from the laundry room. Buying cold-water laundry detergent will save
$24 - $40 in fuel costs to heat water each year. $34 is stuck in the lint trap. Cleaning this trap out each load will help
increase the drying efficiency of your dryer.
· Find $36 in your basement.
Take the temperature down on the hot water heater a little to 120
degrees. This small adjustment can reach
as high as $61 each year in savings.
· Check the kitchen for another $35.
Just one drip per second from a leaking hot water fixture equals 1,661
gallons of water in just one year.
Fixing these leaks is an easy way to save electricity or natural gas.
This
list can go on and on. Some homes will
even be able to save more per room than our estimates. The point is that every little bit
helps. Starting room by room makes it
easier to get hold of things and start heading down that road of energy efficiency.
Source:
James & Morris Carey
