The best idea for that is to insulate your house. For the purpose cover the walls, floors, and heating ducks, ceiling and the attic and the basement with R19 insulation.
You also need to cover the windows with insulating shutters, drapes or clear plastic for more insulation during the night. You need to weather-strip doors and windows.
Use caulk for any holes or cracks in the window frames, door frames, pipes and ducks. Check for any gaps and fill them in around pipes, ducks and vents through the walls, ceilings and floors that are both in heated or unheated spaces.
You can conserve energy in the pool by leaving it filled with water during the winter by running the filter for only 2 hours a day.
There are also daily energy saving tips.
You have to set the thermostat to 68 degrees F or lower it during the day and 55 degrees when you leave the house for more than 4 hours or before you go to bed. Close any rooms that do not need heat and you have automatic thermostat controls.
If you are using a fireplace, then it is a good idea to turn down or switch off the heater. And the moments you are not using a fireplace close the damper.
Your furnace should be clean, lubricated and properly adjusted. Make sure to clean and replace the furnace filter regularly.
On sunny days it is recommended to use passive solar heating. Open the drapes on the south-facing windows and let the sun come in.
You will feel warm indoors by wearing layers of lightweight clothing. There are also clock thermostats that automatically change the settings.
The things that you will need for these procedures are lightweight clothes, insulating drapes, caulking guns, caulks, insulating exterior shutters, R19 insulation, clock thermostats, clear plastic window sheets.
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Save Energy In The Home
1) Hurricane Socks
We always use a number of measures to get rid of dirt and dust from our house. However, it becomes quite difficult to prevent accumulation dirt once the rainy season and hurricane season starts. To prevent water from coming into your house, hurricane socks can help. Made from high quality water absorbing material, hurricane socks are usually 3 inches by 3 – to 4-feet long cylinders of polypropylene packed in strong nylon.
You can place these hurricane socks at the bottom of the doors and windows to prevent possible water dripping and leaking. And surprisingly, these water absorbent socks are able to soak one-gallon water. That means you can change a single hurricane sock after couple of days; simply wring it out, let it air dry and use it – over and over and over again. Crack those tough wet jobs with easy-to-use, economical hurricane socks.
2) Abzorb Mats
Sometimes even after taking all major precautions to keep the house clean, floors - especially the garage and kitchen floors - become dirty and greasy. But don't worry! An easy solution is to use Abzorb Mats, made of top quality absorbing polypropylene, backed with high quality epoxy resin.
Abzorb Mats:
• Keep you garage cleaner and safer from slipping accidents on greasy spots.
• Prevent damage to not only flooring (wood, concrete and others) but also walls, cabinets other areas.
• Absorb gallons of water, and when the water evaporates from the mat, you can use them over and over and over again.
• Are easy to use and clean, and last for years.
• Also come in rolls for easy cutting with scissors or other sharp tool.
Available in multiple sizes and affordable price ranges, Abzorb Mats can be used inside your garage, home (under pet dishes, in children's rooms, under kitchen appliances, etc) and other areas as well as; for example, outside on decks under grills.
3) Draft Stoppers
Along with house cleaning, keeping your home warm is also important, especially during winter season. A central heating system and / or living room fireplace combo is excellent for this purpose, available in local home improvement stores and online.
Note, though, that even if you have your systems and fireplaces in place and running, you need to try hard to prevent possible heat loss, since severe heat loss may overload the systems resulting in overuse of electricity, not to mention excessive energy bills. A simple way to avoid this is to block gaps responsible for heat loss with quality draft stoppers.
A well graded draft stopper is made using finely ground corn cob filled in a cylindrical polypropylene bag, easy to shape as you'd like, and place accordingly. These draft stoppers are long lasting, economical and tough on heat loss.
So give it a try - nothing to lose - - save energy and money with any or all of these 3 nifty home improvement products.
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