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| Measurements of low cost to increase the Energy |
| Save energy |
In the summer, put his thermostat to 78 grades
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Did you know that the North American typical family spends close to $ 1,300 dollars a year in his energy invoice?
Unfortunately, a big quantity of this energy is wasted. Every year we waste across windows and
doors badly isolated a quantity of energy almost equivalent to the quantity of energy.
If you take some measures of low cost to increase the energy efficiency in his hearth, it can reduce his energy expenses between 10 and 50 per cent simultaneously that helps to reduce the contamination of the air.
The progress in the energy efficiency not only turns his hearth into a more comfortable place, but they produce a long-term economic benefit. The cost of the progress in the energy efficiency of his hearth or of an efficient domestic appliance as for the energy consumption, which can be more expensive, can recover across a minor operation cost.
If it carries out although it is some of the progress that can help him to increase the energy efficiency, it can do of his house a place more comfortable than him it will produce long-term economic benefits.
Change the compact fluorescent bulbs. One of the progress easier to save energy is remplazar a bulb of incandescent light for a bulb of fluorescent light (CFL), that it consumes a third of electricity and lasts many other years.
Check the isolation of the attic. There is needed isolation grade R-38 in areas of the attic, and grade R-22 in the warm walls and domed roofs. Ideally, it should have from 12 to 16 inches of isolation in the roof. His principal priority should be the isolation, since 40 per cent of the money that spends in air conditioning can get lost on not having had appropriate isolation.
Help to his air conditioner to fulfill his task: (a) keeping the windows and the blinds closed to block the light of the sun, which can increase the demand of his air conditioner in almost 30 per cent; and (b) calling a professional so that it carries out a preventive maintenance in the air conditioning system so that it works with major efficiency and this way to avoid light interruptions in the summer.
Install draft excluders and caulking about the doors and windows. A gap of a quarter of inch in the lower part of a normal door.
| New programs can help it |
| Avoid to lose his property |
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Andrea Alemañy
Washington Hispanic
In these times, they listen to many persons' comments that lose his housings. But the economy is affecting his all and it is greatly that can be done not to be the protagonists of these histories.
The most important thing is “not to remain without doing anything”, says Fanny Bonilla real property reagent of Bonilla&Asociados and public notary.
One of the most recent options is to apply to the new program of the President Barack Obama who allows the modification of the mortgage loans or to refinance the property before doing a short sale or Shortsale. Next, Washington Hispanic offers to him more information that will help him to choose the best way to save his housing.
Accessible Modification of mortgage loan
The professional real estate agency, he mentions that this program will be current until December 31, 2012. The money-market rates it can decrease up to 2 per cent, for a minimal period of 5 years, and increase in 1 per cent per year, up to reaching the interest of the market.
“ Also they might, to extend the loans to 40 years to reduce the monthly salaries and to eliminate the second loan”, mentions Bonilla.
The persons who want to refinance, also can apply to the program of refinancing, which the principal requisite under the program of the President Obama, will be only for those loans that they are assured for “Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac”.
It is necessary that the property is being occupied by the proprietors, and that it is paid punctually.
This refinancing program ends in June, 2010, and, in any cases, it will not be necessary to do a valuation of the property. They will be able to do the refinancing for the period of 30 years.
| Children are the most affected |
| Install well his TV |
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The new television of 46 inches flat screen can be his pride and happiness, but: did you know that also it can be a risk for the safety? As other types of heavy furniture, unduly guaranteed his TV of flat screen can get overturned, squashing, hurting and even killing the small children.
Between 2000 and 2006, according to more recent available information, 180 Americans died immediately after the TV of the furniture fell down, and 80 per cent of the deaths were minor children of 10, according to the Commission for the Safety of the Products of Consumption of the United States (CPSC, according to his acronym in English).
The injuries index has increased more than 40 per cent in 10 years of period of study. “This tendency demonstrates the insufficiency of the current strategies of prevention and emphasizes the need to increase the safety efforts in the hearth”, says principal Dr. Gary Smith author of study of the director of the hospital of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, some basic advices:
Do not underestimate them - The elegant, thin TV of flat screen causes a false safety sensation for his size and weight. Bear in mind that these TV sets can think 100 pounds or more about his compact design. By what it needs to be well assured by supports specially designed to support it.
Good assembly in wall – The assembly of the wall for a flat screen has numerous advantages, between them the esthetic attraction. But if it is realized correctly with a device of high quality, a flat screen is much surer that to put it on the furniture.
15.000 children younger than 18 years are attended in the emergencies.
| Electrical products for the garden |
| Start engines |
I equip for the location maintenance of nowadays
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Eel electrical equipment for location maintenance of nowadays is impelled by engines that save more fuel, they are more lasting and in average they work in 70 per cent with major clearness than those facts in 1990. According to Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, the new technologies designed by manufacturers worried by the environment have been faced to the production of small engines that do not need fuel. The entire contribution of the causative emission of the contamination between the whole electrical equipment for gardening and lawns of nowadays is a minor of 1 per cent. The piece of news podadora of gasoline with button for ignition Ryobi has an engine of low emission and it is the first and only podadora in the industry that comes with a button for ignition.
One hopes that the electrical equipment demand for maintenance of lawns and gardens should raise more than 2 per cent a year during 2011, which is equivalent to more than $ 10 billions as MarketResearch.com. The new draft tractor zero iSeries of 42 " Cub Cadet is driven by an engine of 12 horsepowers of Kohler Courage; it is a smaller, more economic tractor and zero has a draft radio with a covering of 42 inches twin choppers.
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