Ways To Make Your Home More Energy Efficient

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Ways To Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
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• With energy prices soaring of late, conserving
  energy is at the forefront of many a homeowners
  mind, and fortunately, there are a few simple but
  effective ways to reduce your energy bills and
  help protect the environment
• How to reduce heat loss in your home
• Insulation
• A properly insulated home is the simplest way to
  reduce heat loss and have a home that is
  comfortably warm. Did you know that about a third
  of heat is lost through the walls of an
  uninsulated home, while a further quarter is lost
  through the roof. With this in mind, its
  important to protect your home from losing heat
  and wasting energy by ensuring your home has
  some, or all of the following

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• Cavity wall insulation
• Solid wall insulation
• Floor insulation
• Roof and loft insulation
• Draft-proofing on windows and doors
• Insulated hot water cylinders, tanks, pipes and
  radiators
• Windows
• You can also consider upgrading your windows to
  more energy efficient ones that are double or
  triple glazed.

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• Heating systems
• Even with a well-insulated home, it can be
  expensive to heat your home and have hot water
  when you need it. However, by switching to a
  low-carbon heating system you can get the heat
  you need, more efficiently, with things like
• Air-to-water, ground-to-water, hybrid or
  solar-assisted heat pumps
• Modern boilers
• Electric heating
• Solar-powered water heating

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• Heating controls
• Wherever possible, having a timer to control the
  temperature in your home can help make sure that
  you dont waste energy by heating it too much or
  unnecessarily, and turning your thermostat down
  by as little as one or two degrees can help you
  make energy savings, too. You may also want to
  consider installing a smart thermostat that can
  be controlled using your phone, for more accurate
  and less wasteful heat consumption.

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• Renewable energy
• If you dont want to depend upon unpredictable
  and often costly price hikes from your utility
  supplier, you should consider investing in a
  renewable energy source, such as solar. Create
  your own electricity or heat, reduce your energy
  bills and carbon emissions significantly, and
  even increase the value of your home should you
  need to sell it. Solar panels are by far the most
  realistic renewable energy source for the average
  household, and by capturing the suns heat and
  turning it into energy for powering your home,
  you can even make money back on any surplus
  electricity your panels may generate.

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• Energy efficiency is always a smart investment,
  and with the cost of solar panels decreasing with
  every passing year (not to mention government
  incentives and tax breaks), why not make your
  home more energy efficient while doing your bit
  for the planet, too?

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