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Post subject: 50 Energy Saving Tips From Journal Live
 Posted: Sep 25, 2008 - 01:50 PM CST
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1) Insulate your water tank – Making sure your hot water tank and pipes have adequate insulation could save you £5-£10 a year.
2) Insulate your loft – Insulating your loft to the recommended depth of 270mm could save you up to £155 a year.
3) Fit double-glazing – Energy Saving Recommended double-glazing could save around £110 a year.
4) Draughts – Save around £25 a year by draught-proofing doors, windows and letter boxes.
5) Recycle – Recycling the waste from all the bins in your house cuts the energy required to make new products.
6) Insulate your walls – Cavity wall insulation helps reduce the amount of energy you need to heat your home and save around £120 a year. For older properties why not insulate the inside/outside of the walls? It will save £360-£380 a year.
7) Turn appliances off stand-by – You could save £28 a year by ensuring appliances are not left on stand-by.
8) Lightbulbs – Replace all the inefficient lightbulbs in your home with Energy Saving Recommended ones and save around £45 a year.
9) Fit thermostatic radiator valves – Control individual room temperatures with thermostatic radiator valves and prevent heating rooms not in use unnecessarily.
10) Upgrade to Energy Saving Recommended appliances – These could save up to £34 a year.
11) Install a water displacement device – Putting a water displacement device in your toilet cistern is a simple way to save water.
12) Take a shower – A shower uses one-third of the water of a bath.
13) Replace your old boiler – Swapping your old boiler for a new condensing one, with full heating controls could cut your bill by 45%, saving around £250 a year.
14) Reuse leftover food – If everyone in the UK eliminated their food waste, the carbon dioxide saving would be the same as taking one in five cars off the road.
15) Greener gardens – Invest in a water butt and use the collected water on your garden or to wash the car.
16) Close your curtains – This stops heat escaping through your windows.
17) Heating – If everyone in the North East turned down their heating by 1C, we would save enough energy to heat more than 80,000 households a year.
18) Computers – It may not be practical to switch off your computer, but turning off the monitor when you’re not using it will save energy.
19) DVD players – Most DVD players and recorders can be switched off completely when not in use without losing their settings.
20) Television – Turn TVs off when not in use. LCD and plasma screens can use 400 watts when in use, but only four watts on stand-by.
21) Chargers – Switch off mobile phone chargers when they are not in use. Chargers left plugged in unnecessarily waste more than £60m and are responsible for a quarter of a million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.
22) Lighting – Turn off lights when leaving the room, even if you’re just going out for 10 minutes.
23) Wash clothes at lower temperatures – Washing clothes at 30C, as opposed to 40C, uses 40% less energy and is generally as efficient, according to the Energy Saving Trust.
24) Clothing – Reaching for a jumper rather than turning the heating up when it gets cold can be an effective way of saving energy.
25) Temperature – Make sure your water isn’t too hot. The cylinder thermostat should not need to be set higher than 60°C/140°F.
Read all the tips here:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/lifestyle- ... -21900429/ |
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