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| Makes Your Electricity Bill Lower Posted: 11 Sep 2011 02:46 AM PDT
People living in houses as we regularly spend $ 100 to $ 150 per month, and we wonder how we do it. In essence, by saving energy. For example, always buy energy efficient appliances. We also follow the power company for advice, and find the drive is “unity of life” _ cost price in addition to what it costs to run. One of the fridge to sell $ 950 and pays $ 93 a year to operate. Another may sell $ 1050, but paid only $ 73 a year to run. $ 1,050 refrigerator is a better deal. Even taking into account lost income cost of $ 100 extra (for example, an 8 percent per year) would require at least seven years to recoup the additional cost of energy-efficient refrigerator. (Remember, the $ 20 to save each year in electricity can also be 8 percent interest.) During a lifespan of 15 years on average, sales of $ 100 fridge and $ 226 would be cheaper. To calculate the cost of life in a yellow and black Energy Guide label attached to most devices. The label, as required by federal law, said the estimated cost per unit of energy per year and helps to compare one model to another. Costs derived from average prices of electricity, so you should call your utility company and find one in your region. Our utility, Florida Power and Light (FPL), costs about 8 cents per kilowatt hour, including tax surcharge and fuel. Your utility may also give you ideas for reducing energy costs. FPL has sent us brochures on lighting our homes efficiently, saving on water heating, avoiding energy losses, ceiling insulation, shutters, gardens and many other topics. FPL has also sent a representative to our home to do an investigation of the free energy. He checked our insulation, caulking, window tinting and the efficiency of appliances, and gave us a passing grade. Here are some tips FPL has given us: -Read the manufacturer’s instructions before you begin using a device, and keep the warranty information safe but accessible. We maintain a file on each machine, including manual, warranty card and where a service call. -Clean the equipment regularly. We do at least once a month. -Open the door only when necessary, and when you do, switch it off as quickly as possible. -Turn the oven just before use. Preheating is not necessary for most foods. “Do not open the oven door to look, because you lose valuable heat. Check the food out the window if the furnace has one, like ours. -Use a microwave oven hob and compact reheat leftovers for quick meals. Compact microwave ovens – the only one we have – not heat the kitchen, which puts pressure on the air conditioner. -Use hot water only for heavily soiled clothes or normal loads, the soil starts to accumulate. Hot or cold, even for just less dirty. 3:57 Doing full loads per week in hot water costs $ 4 per month in cold water, only $ 1.20. We always use cold water setting. -Try to wash clothes during off-peak hours such as early morning or late evening. We are early risers, and we do our washing after breakfast. In some cases, go beyond what our public services is recommended. Television, radio or stereo noise ever to us. If you do not watch or listen to them off. FPL recommends setting the thermostat to air conditioning or cooling control switch to the highest comfortable temperature, and suggests 78 degrees Fahrenheit. We can go higher. We keep the temperature of 80-82 degrees during the day and 78 at night. Our utility, says that for every degree we raise, we save 6 percent to 8 percent of the electricity bill. In winter, we will save 3 to 5 percent for every degree turn to the thermostat. |
| Clearing Out Your Kitchen Cupboards Posted: 10 Sep 2011 02:45 PM PDT
To reduce the size of your storage needs well, the best thing to do is get rid of some of the things you own. This does not necessarily throw them, but put them to good use. Here are some ideas: - Check all the food in the cupboard and see if anything is beyond its expiration date. If so, should be discarded, as it will be cooler. - If you have packages open, as to do something about them and with them not just allowing them to sit in the oven until they are unusable? For example, if you have open bags of sugar, flour and cocoa, mix these ingredients with the margarine and eggs, pour over the cake cases, and you have cupcakes. Cupcakes are so easy to do, they are so good and tasty to get rid of the surplus of the ingredients of the cake. - Similarly, sacks of corn flakes or puffed rice cereal for breakfast can also make cupcakes, add a little ‘honey or jam as easy cupcake frosting if you have a sweet tooth. Bags of peas or lentils may be used as a form of soup, and so on. You can always find some simple recipes easy to use packages of food surpluses and the Wardrobe. - Do you have pots and pans too? If yes, they are very big, and you can put them in the garden and grow plants in them. It seems attractive, and they are not put to waste. - Plates Porcelain surplus can be hung on the wall as an attractive country-style design, very similar to Grandma’s kitchen. - Bottles of parts can be colored and used for ornamental purposes, empty, or with different colored sand inside. - Take a look and see if they actually use some of the things you have in your closet. Be honest and ruthless in their research. If you care about things that are broken or no longer need it for purely sentimental reasons, then it is time to get tough because we need the space they occupy. - Reorganize the things you love, you’ll be able to use the space that is available as efficiently as possible. Make neat piles of dishes and pans, and stack objects can be placed inside the other. - Rename the furniture and the brand so that you can navigate around the kitchen much easier. Research on storage space in your kitchen should not be painful or difficult. All he needs is creativity and effectiveness, and you’ll soon discover that you have a space that meets your needs. |
A common problem in the middle of the house is not enough storage space to store what we have. Although the ideal would be to build more closets, this is not always possible or practical. And even if we were to build several cabinets or shelves to put more, it is likely that we then put more in them and the problem will not disappear.| You are subscribed to email updates from Home Inspiration Ideas To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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