How to Save Electricity in Your Home

Nowadays our energy costs has grown to some frightening numbers.
Folks are struggling to lower their electricity bill.
Here are 10 steps to ensure your house uses less electricity.
1.
Add insulation to floors and ceilings.
This ensures that during the Winter less heat escapes from the house and increases the need to use heating.
2.
Get rid of and switch the shower head with what is called a low flow shower head.
They typically cost between $40 to $80, but can save more than $80 per year on energy expenses.
3.
Be certain that any home appliance that has a standby function is turned off when it is not being used.
It's believed that about 10% of the typical household electricity costs is because of home appliances that are left on standby mode.
4.
Use the dishwasher along with washing machine only if they are just about full.
5.
Swap aged appliances with energy efficient kinds.
This can be carried out by looking at their particular energy star ranking.
Appliances which have an energy star ranking typically use about 30% less electricity than their counterparts.
6.
Wrap your water heater with padding.
Doing this can cost you only around $10, but has the potential to save $100's due to the fact that water heating is responsible for a high portion of your electricity expenses.
7.
Clean out any air filters that have collected dust in the house.
In addition make sure that their is not something near them that might prohibit air flow.
8.
You may try planting trees in the yard.
Not only will they improve the look of the house but they will also ensure that your house is shaded in the Summer.
9.
If you're still not satisfied, you might like to install solar panels as well as a wind turbine for the home.
Perhaps you might even choose to go the do it yourself route and make them on your own.
10.
Carry out an energy audit, so you can see where inside the house can be improved upon to ensure it is more electricity efficient.
Those are all of the 10 methods.
The majority of these methods are easy to do and wouldn't cost you too much money, but if carried out properly these methods can help save lots of money along with increasing the quality of your property.
So what are you waiting around for?