- Turn your water off at the house meter when going away for the weekend or a longer vacation.
- Consider a tankless water heater, thus substantially cutting cost for
the hot water portion of your energy bill.
- Consider a time clock on your electric water heater for significant energy savings.
- Insulate hot water tanks, pipes and heating ducts.
- Caulking and weather-stripping your home can result in energy savings
of 10% or more.
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Seal holes where conduits and pipes enter the attic along partition
walls, eaves and knee walls. Use caulk or compressed fiberglass
insulation.
- Change air filters in your furnace every month. Heaters use more
energy when the filter is full of dirt or dust.
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In the winter, reverse your ceiling fan motor so that the blades push
air up toward the ceiling, where hot air normally rises. The fan will
drive the warm air back down around the edges of the room, which can
result in more even heating. Better heat circulation will help combat
the problem of sweating windows that some homes experience in the
wintertime because of condensation on the glass.
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Keep the fireplace damper closed when the fireplace is not in use.
Closing the damper prevents up to 8% of furnace-heated air from going
up the chimney. If the fireplace is never used, the damper should be
sealed with weather-stripping and the chimney stuffed with fiberglass
insulation. Remove this material from the chimney before a fire is lit
in the fireplace.
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