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Energy Saving Ideas for Your Home

Submitted by MontCtyAdmin on October 16, 2007 - 7:30pm.

This is a forum to discuss saving energy in your home. Where does your energy usage go and what ways have you found to save energy?

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Muscle Might

Submitted by jacicaalban (not verified) on November 18, 2009 - 2:59am.

Well, it's that I wanted to see if there were ways to make sure that the light and water bill won't be so high, and I wanted to know if there were any ideas that people can give me.
Please, these are ideas for a home, mostly indoors.
Also, I already use energy-efficient lightbulbs in my home, so avoid telling me that.
Please and thank you

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Energy home inspection

Submitted by shupec on November 4, 2007 - 11:29pm.

Something to consider well worth the cost is having an energy audit professional check out your home, including insulation, not just windows but also all around doors and plumbing, attic, and more.

For those that can afford it, you might consider incorporating solar paneling and winter heating by sun heated water, and other environmentally friendly alternative energy/home heating sources.

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Compact Flourescent bulbs

Submitted by auser (not verified) on October 17, 2007 - 10:17pm.

I have replaced all the incandescent lights in my house with CFL bulbs and I think I am saving about 20% on my home electric bill.

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We've also replaced all the

Submitted by jason on April 22, 2008 - 12:18pm.

We've also replaced all the bulbs indoors and out with CFL's, we did it all in a day and started to compared electric bills and saw a noticeable difference. We have tenants in in two apartments and changed those as well. With as many lights as we have it will add up to a big difference at the end of the year but no matter the size of the house changing bulbs to CFL is a big step towards saving energy. We've also got double glazing on some older windows and sealed up some areas with expanding foam like behind the molding under the window there is usually an open space from when the windows were installed that just gets covered up. Before sealing those areas up you could always feel cold drafts during the winter.

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