Fall is coming with cool evenings, the heating season, increasing the nights and short days. How to save on electricity, not to overpay?
In autumn you most of the time you begin to live under artificial lighting. How not to splurge on electricity? Standard advice - replace lampsbulbs for energy-saving - not a panacea, if you spend the rest of the energy quite thoughtlessly. It should still conduct an audit of your habits and home improvement.
Top 9 tips on how to save on electricity in autumn
1. Turn off the light, leaving the premises.
Everytime. This, of course, tedious, boring quickly - in general, for most unrealistic. Exit - to install heat sensors that will turn on and turn off the light for you.
2. Use local lighting.
See where the apartment will be enough sconce, table lamp or floor lamp instead of 5 Pelvic chandeliers. Set the switches with adjustable light intensity.
3. At least once a week, wipe the windows and ceiling dust.
It seems a trifle, but in fact essential: dirty windows and ceiling reduce the room lighting by 35%. Let overcast outside, but it's the sun.
4. During repairs, make sure that the walls were light.
As well as furniture and decorative textiles - curtains, tablecloths, upholstery. In this case, they will reflect up to 80% lumen, while the dark wallpaper and furniture reflect only 12%.
5. Turn off at night from the outlet devices that are in standby mode.
For example, a TV, computer, printer, scanner. Chargers for gadgets remove from the outlet immediately after charging. This will save you up to 200 kWh per year. And each time to manually disable the devices is not necessary. There are timers for sockets, which can be programmed for a certain time. Or to enable or disable them remotely.
6. Regularly defrost the refrigerator if it is not provided No Frost system.
Make sure that the fridge was out of the radiators. Put it only chilled dishes.
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7. Do not iron everything.
- Today there is already all pereglazhivat both sides newborn little one - so the child adapts quickly to the outside world. And in casual dress code allows quite easy clothes wrinkled. Especially in the fall, where many synthetic fibers.
- Linens can also do not iron, simply align neatly folded and hands after drying.
- Things that require delicate handling, better iron iron cools, unplug it from the outlet.
8. Do not overload the washing machine - it just increases the electricity consumption by 10%.
In the autumn we will have perestirat all linen from the country, also have to wash bulky and heavy winter clothes for the season, wash out jeans from salt, which is sprinkled the streets in November. Nevertheless, try to reasonably regulate the temperature of wash cycle. It plays a role even a slight difference, for example, for washing at 30 degrees spent 35% less energy than at 40 degrees.
9. Install the two-tariff meter.
It allows you to save at night - from 23.00 to 7.00. This counter is beneficial for those who have energy-intensive appliances - dishwasher, washing machine, bread maker.
Life hacking for the budget
Replace conventional infrared heater on - it is more economical than the rest by 30-80%. The peculiarity of this heater is that it heats the air is not, and items from which then heats up the air in the room. There is a wall, floor and even the ceiling heaters.
When buying electrical appliances for the home, always pay attention to the energy efficiency class. For convenience, use this scale:
1. A ++, A +, A - economically
2. B, C - Acceptable
3. D, E, F, G - is not economically
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