First part of this new section added to Practical Home Energy Saving showing what can be done in each room of the house. Over the next few weeks this will be developed further. Tips are also colour codd to indicate cost.
Practical Home Energy Saving has just introduced a new series of electricity saving room by room giving information on no cost ways of saving electricity.
You can drop the temperature in your house, especially upstairs, by several degrees, if you open the loft hatch and open doors and/or windows on the north side of the house. By doing so you create a chimney effect; hot air is able to vent from the loft through the eaves and cooler air is drawn up through the house from the north side. Deepending on the structure of the building this can have anything from a modest to a quite noticeable effect and it’s a lot greener then air-conditioning.
How much are you paying for unknown electricity use? Practical Home Energy Saving has just published an article called Hidden Electricity Users. This is another step in helping to reduce high electricity bills.
Check out Towards low-cost LED Lighting which holds out some interesting promise for the future.