How To Reduce Your Electricity Bill

[ateer]

If you have been bogged by the enormous electricity bills you have been getting, it is time to take some concrete steps. You can reduce your electricity bills by following very simple steps.

This article will list some simple, easy-to-do things to reduce your electricity bill.

Limited use: Start with the room you are sitting in. If you were to take a call in another room or join your family at the dining table, would you just step out of your room without any concern for the electrical appliances in the room? If you would, stop right there, and look around. Switch off all the appliances even if you would be back in five minutes. Yes, even that will help. Every drop of water constitutes to the ocean.

Another thing to take care of here is what you perceive as an electronic appliance. Would you switch off the television set, turn off the fan, but not the light bulb? Yes, you need light, but not now when you are leaving the room. Taking care of these small things will go a long way in reducing the dreaded huge electricity bills.

Smart investments: Make some smart power investments by replacing your incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. These bulbs are a great power-saving investment.

Buy the Power Save gadget. The gadget helps monitor the power supply to your house and uses the minimum that is needed.

Home appliance usage: Most of us complain that the electricity bill touches the sky because of the number of electrical appliances they have at home. However, the electricity bill is not directly proportional to the number of gadgets you use but the way you use them. Let’s see how you can avoid the typical power-wasters.

• Use the washing machine only when there is a full load of clothes.
• Keep the geyser on for the minimal amount of time.
• Keep the air-conditioner at the minimum low or high temperature, just enough to keep you off the heat or the cold outside.
• Switch off the computer monitor even when you take a one-minute break. It takes just a second to switch on the monitor again!

Yeah, you have to stick to this way of life for saving power at home and for the world.

Remember, reducing your electricity bill is equivalent to saving power, thus helping the world save power for its future generations.

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[macgardener]

Originally Posted by ateer

Yes, you need light, but not now when you are leaving the room. Taking care of these small things will go a long way in reducing the dreaded huge electricity bills.

Make some smart power investments by replacing your incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. These bulbs are a great power-saving investment.

CFL's are expensive and do not last as long if switched on and off all the time.

Originally Posted by ateer

• Keep the geyser on for the minimal amount of time.

[spadlet]

Originally Posted by ateer

Limited use: Start with the room you are sitting in. If you were to take a call in another room or join your family at the dining table, would you just step out of your room without any concern for the electrical appliances in the room? If you would, stop right there, and look around. Switch off all the appliances even if you would be back in five minutes. Yes, even that will help.

Except fo things like computers which take a while to start up. If you are only going to be back in 5 minutes then you'll probably use as much energy switching the thing on and waiting for it to reboot as you would save.

Originally Posted by ateer

Buy the Power Save gadget. The gadget helps monitor the power supply to your house and uses the minimum that is needed.

How much power does one consume compared to the ammount of consumption it reduces? Equally how much does one cost compared to the ammount of money you could potentially save?

Originally Posted by ateer

• Keep the geyser on for the minimal amount of time.

What is a domestic geyser and why would you need one in the first place?

Originally Posted by ateer

• Keep the air-conditioner at the minimum low or high temperature, just enough to keep you off the heat or the cold outside.

Or you could look into alternatives to air-conditioning. Would just opening and shutting the window surfice? Would it be ecconomic to change the building so that there is passive air flow through the building? If you live in a climate where air conditioning really is essential (without spending lots of money designing and building a passive house appropriate to your climate) could the energy requirements of the system be improved by using a heat enchanger to modify the incoming air temperature without using energy?

[Wobs]

Originally Posted by spadlet

Or you could look into alternatives to air-conditioning. Would just opening and shutting the window surfice?

This is why sash windows were invented. This let warm air out at the top, and cool air in the bottom. In theory.

[spadlet]

Originally Posted by Wobs

This is why sash windows were invented. This let warm air out at the top, and cool air in the bottom. In theory.

I never knew that . Maybe I can use it as justification to get my mum to rethread an old sash window in the atic rather than replace it with 'modern' double glazing (mostly coz the double glazing only seems to come in standard sizes and it's a non-standard window).

[Wobs]

Most sash windows are repairable, and you can get kits with new chord (nylon is recommended), and new beading with draft proofing.

I have two sash windows left in my house, and have renovated them both.

You can get double glazing units for them, but its debatable whether its worthwhile. There is a company that will turn up with a mobile workshop to convert them to double glazing, but will be expensive, as lead will often be needed for the counter balances, and labour costs will be high.

I'm sure you're aware the uPVC windows are the sporn of the devil.

[samfoster]

Originally Posted by Wobs

Most sash windows are repairable, and you can get kits with new chord (nylon is recommended), and new beading with draft proofing.

I have two sash windows left in my house, and have renovated them both.

You can get double glazing units for them, but its debatable whether its worthwhile. There is a company that will turn up with a mobile workshop to convert them to double glazing, but will be expensive, as lead will often be needed for the counter balances, and labour costs will be high.

I'm sure you're aware the uPVC windows are the sporn of the devil.

Hey,

Such a good information.

I also renovated my all windows with double glazing.

[Wobs]

Originally Posted by samfoster

Hey,

Such a good information.

I also renovated my all windows with double glazing.

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[SimonG]

I have reduced my electrical energy consumption by 34% despite starting a business from home.

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[wanshun1818]

Everyone shoule save the electric energy avoiding wasting