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| Replace his domestic appliances with new and efficient products |
| It completes less energy in his property |
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You as owner is always thinking about how to save money. According to the Manufacturers' Association of domestic appliances of the hearth (AHAM) a good place to begin the saving is in the kitchen. The replacement of the ancient and inefficient devices, for more modern devices, is an important way for the consumers to harvest an enormous energy saving.
It is very important to consider the change, bearing in mind that the quantity of energy consumed by the new domestic appliances has diminished drastically from the year 2000. The omnibus accounts of the refrigeradoras, the dishwashers and the washers of clothes mean 43 per cent of decrease in the energy consumption from the year 2000, and the decrease of the energy consumption, in turn, diminishes the costs.
On having replaced his ancient fridge, dishwasher and clothes washer by new efficiency devices, the consumers can save about $ 95 per year in energy invoices. The replacement of his washer of clothes will save more than $ 60 in the costs of the electricity and nearly 5.000 gallons of water per year.
The consumers can achieve additional savings by means of the domestic appliances buy with mark of Energy Star. Next we present some advices to him for the energy saving:
• If you are replacing his fridge, do not use the ancient icebox as the second fridge. This is not going to produce any energy saving. Insure of recycling correctly the old domestic appliance.
• Allow the warm food to cool down before placing them in the fridge, and always cover the food that can liberate the moisture in the fridge.
• Limit opening constantly the doors of the fridge and of the freezer. Label the food before his storage to identify easily the products.
• Scrape, but not pre-rinsing the plates before putting them in the dishwasher. The dishwasher does a big work of cleanliness of dirty plates.
• Use the configuration adapted for the load of his washer. If his clothes wash-down is small, insure of changing the load and the use of cold water whenever it is possible.
• Not on - seque the clothes. This provokes the contraction and generates the static electricity. If his dryer has an auto-drying term, use a temporizador to avoid the loss of energy.
• Always clean the filter of the dryer of clothes after every use. A congested filter will reduce the yield of the machine.
For more advices information for the energy saving he can visit www.aham.org.
| Preliminary review will avoid his future problems |
| Clean and repair the roofs and canaletas in autumn |
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The autumn is one of the ideal epochs to repair the roof of the house and to clean the sewer pipe canaletas because of the fall of the sheets. Nevertheless, to do both works common sense and many precaution is needed to avoid an accident
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Are here some suggestions that him will be very useful in his works:
• Before rising to the roof, inspect ocularmente the affected areas. If it has good sight, it is well, if it uses binoculars, better. This way, when rise will go straight to the damaged part.
• Use a strong stairs that it exceeds when less 39 inches the level of the roof and make sure that it should be fixed properly to the apartment.
• The gum shoes are ideal to avoid a possible slip. Seen pants and shirt of sleeve chatter.
• When he decides to work on the roof, he chooses a sunny day, with dry roof and without winds. If it are necessary, sweep and clean all kinds of garbage that could cause an accident.
• Do not raise the stairs loading heavy things. It is preferable to use a rope to raise the tile bundles; throw in a bucket the small things — like nails, gums, tacks, hammer, tweezers.
• A piece of thick carpet is the ideal thing while it does repairs on a sloping roof. Neither the hardware nor the boxes slip with gums, nails and tacks.
• If the roof has inclination of more than 30 grades, better do not rise. Much less if it is of double apartment. It is preferable to entrust the work to specializing persons.
• Try not to walk very much on the pasteboard floor tiles arenado, it might damage them.
• Carefully extract tacks or nails of the floor tiles that it is going to change. On them having substituted with the piece of news, insure of supporting the exact alignment, being based on the lower floor tile and that of a side.
• To make sure that it will not cause leaks after fixing the floor tiles, put a gum in every nail or tack … and do not try to save nails, tacks and gums. Key in accordance with the official construction specifications. See and count the dives in the rest of the roof so that it should have an exact idea.
• Be useful to clean of sheets and garbage the canaletas. Use a hose and throw water to pressure.
• If there is very much waste in the canaleta, use kitchen pincers or do a dustpan cutting diagonally with knife or scissors the low part of an empty packing of one liter plastic (1/4 of gallon) of oil.
• Check that the canaletas are held properly and keep on supporting the inclination adapted for a good sewer pipe.
This review and repair tries to repeat it every year. He will avoid damages bigger than the property and, especially, inconveniences during the rainy days.
| Seal the energy filtrations in his housing |
| Useful advices to save in his invoices |
EnCortesía of Content ARA
One imagine to leave a window opened in the winter. The loss of heat and the waste of energy! If his house has a stairs desplegable towards the attic, a fan for the whole house, a chimney or a dryer of clothes, you cannot know what every day happens in his house.
Not to not know these holes or to spend them for high place generates big losses of energy that is reflected in his invoices monthly.
Most of the owners realize much and do small changes to limit to the minimum the loss of energy that they produce to themselves across the cracks about doors, windows, tubes, etc.
But: what can you do with the "holes" in his house, folding stairs for the attic, the fan of the whole house, the chimney and the dryer of clothes?
These are some advices and skills that can help him in an easy, rapid and economic way to seal these holes.
Stairs for the attic
When they install the stairs to themselves for the attic, there is created a hole (approximately 10 square feet). His attic is ventilated straight of the exterior. In the winter, this space can be very cold, and in the summer it can be very warm. And what separates the roof of his house with his attic, is this thin plate of counterplated wood.
Often, a breach can be observed across the door of the attic. Prove it yourself: in the night, light the light of his attic and close the door of the stairs: does it look at any light across next hours? If the sight, that itself happens with his heating and air conditioning, the air filters of his house during 12 p.m. of the day. This is like leaving a window or open fanlight the whole year.
A solution to this problem, is to add isolation to the stairs. Add the wished isolation quantity on the covering to restore the eliminated isolation of the roof. This will help to avoid the loss of energy.
Air conditioning
As the stairs for the attic, when they settle the fan for the whole house, there is created a hole (up to 16 square feet or more). The roof and the isolation that is had tend to be eliminated, leaving the air choke between you and the free air.
A simple solution of low cost for this problem, is to add a fan for the whole house with obstruction stamp. Fact of flexible texture of isolation, the stamp of the choke has settled in the roof, with the Velcro guaranteed and cut away to fit. The stamp of the choke also can be used to seal and to isolate the air conditioning air vents and it is easy to withdraw, when he wishes it.
Chimneys
Sixty five per cent, or more than 100 million hearths, in the United States they have chimneys, regrettably there are negative side effects those that the chimney brings to a hearth, especially, during the winter period, the energy of the heating escapes for the chimneys.
The investigators have studied this to determine the quantity of heat loss that happens across a chimney, and the results are surprising. A study showed that a shock absorber isolated in a chimney of a house can increase the heating, the energy consumption in 30 per cent.
Simultaneously, the study demonstrates that for many consumers, his heating invoices can be more than $ major 500 in the winter due to the losses and the waste of energy caused by the chimneys.
A simple solution of low cost for this problem, is to add to his chimney an available cover in Battic Door, a company known by his products for the energy conservation. The cover of the chimney is an inflatable pillow that it seals and muffles and eliminates the holes, the smells, and the noise. The pillow comes out when the chimney is used, and later it fits again
Clothes dryer
In many hearths, the quarter of the dryer of clothes is the coldest of the rooms of the house. His clothes dryer is connected to a conduit of leakage that is opened outdoors. In the winter, the cold filters across the conduits, across the pipes in his house.
A simple solution of low cost for this problem, is to add an exit stamp. This will reduce not wished filtrations, and also the plagues, the bees and the rodents. The smokes exit will remain closed unless the dryer is in use. When it is in use, a floating shuttle gets up to allow the warm air, the moisture and the fluffs to go out.
| Owners have the sensation of being taking a few holidays in its own hearth |
| Consider the Sunrooms construction |
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The housings owners across the United States are choosing to integrate the free air to the hearth with the construction of additional Sunroom. Considered like a luxurious room, the Sunroom have been growing in popularity and now they appear like one of the project of more popular reshaping, in accordance with the National Association of the Industry of Reshaping.
Sunroom, provides to the owners the sensation that the exterior is inside the house, he is like being take a few holidays in its own hearth.
" Sunroom shares big part of the appeal of the decks", says Rob Enos, Manager of Products of Owens Corning, a company of services of construction. "They expand the spaces outdoors, while his addition of square feet they are useful for the hearth; on the other hand to add a room of this type offers to the owners to enjoy more comfortably. Also, the sunrooms are relatively easy and profitable to add to the existing housings, even for the properties of more time of construction, then, in contrast to the decks, the sunrooms that have windows with glasses of high yield it can in some cases, be occupied during the whole year".
But before taking action in the next spring for the construction of the Sunroom in his house, Scott Keegan, General Manager of Industries CKH in Lodi, NJ, offers some advices for the perfect planning of the Sunroom:
• Consult with a professional qualified to assure that there should no be obstacles in the codes of ordinances of construction or zoning so that it does not limit his construction options in the rear courtyard.
• Understand that screenrooms and sunroom are not the same thing, there are big differences in quality, price and functionality. The advances in technology of the construction, including the efficient one of energy of the windows, have done easier to create new spaces more comfortable. A courtyard or screenroom it can be only useful during the warm climate, while it is possible to do many sunrooms habitable for four periods, or even during the whole year.
• Consider to incorporate new and innovative products of fiberglass as windows and the doors térmicamente efficient of the mark Owens Corning SunSuites Sunrooms, which are strong and lasting. These it can take a few weeks to settle for a qualified professional.
• Investigate his options and the advances in the technology that the strongest and more efficient sunroom have done in energy, which never. Owens Corning SunSuites Sunroom is characterized by the fiberglass making combined with the windows making with the insurance of ENERGY STAR, which provides important savings of costs of energy.
" If the sunroom is not installed correctly, or it is not the sufficiently strong thing how to resist the rigors of the climate in his region, a lot of money might wear out to repair it, and to face to the damages that could happen with the rest of his housing if the structure of the sunroom is not the suitable one", it finishes.
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