20 ways to save on utilities
Get Rich / / December 20, 2019
1. Check the insulation
Wooden frames were replaced by plastic windows. They are more reliable, but over time the foam dries, gum-sealing ogrubevayut. Check to see whether the blows you out of the windows. If so, seal the gap, or in the winter will heat the street. Also check the insulation of the front door.
2. Adjust the temperature in the room
Leaving for work or leaving the country, turn down the radiators. Why heat the empty rooms? Returning, you can turn the valve on the battery and heat the apartment to a comfortable level. The most convenient way to adjust the temperature with the thermostat with a timer.
If the house is hot, turn down the temperature of the battery is better than the open window.
3. Install multirate Electric
Multi-tariff metering devices allow to vary the charge for electricity depending on the time of day. Allocate day rate when kilowatt hour costs conditionally 5 rubles, and the night when it costs 2 rubles. There are also half-peak evening zone when electricity is cheaper than a day, but more a night.
If you run the washing machine and dishwasher after the start of the night tariff of action (approximately 23 hours), you can save a good idea. But if you rarely awake at this time, and devices are not equipped with a function of the delayed start, it is more profitable to use the one-tariff meter with an average cost of a kilowatt hour.
4. Replace incandescent bulbs with LED
This will require investments, but they will be repaid. LED bulbs consume 8-10 times less energy than conventional ones.
5. Before leaving, extinguish the light
Banal advice, but we often neglect them. It is especially important to teach children to turn off the light. While you are at home, he can burn in all the rooms.
6. Set motion detectors
These instruments are relevant not only to the entrances of apartment buildings, but also for terraces and attics in private homes, corridors, balconies, closets and other rooms, where we seldom look and where it is so easy to forget to turn off shine.
7. Check the energy efficiency of household appliances
Modern appliances is divided into energy efficiency classes.
The higher it (A ++ A +, A), the device consumes less power per hour. If your refrigerator and the oven are marked below C, should think about replacing them. Yes, it also requires investment, but the long term benefits will be much greater.
8. Inspect the refrigerator
Check out the gum on the door and the ice in the freezer. If synthetic gaskets abut loosely, cooling is inefficient. Suffers fresh products and electricity consumed is actually wasted.
Frost in the freezing and refrigerating compartment moreover also reduces the efficiency of the device. Try to regularly defrost the refrigerator, it should be done not only for reasons of hygiene.
9. Remove the food from the freezer in advance
Firstly, natural defrosting useful. Secondly, why include a microwave or oven, if in a few hours everything perfectly thawed itself?
10. Turn off the electric stove in advance
It cooktop surface, usually made of ceramic materials, which are fairly long hold heat. So if at the end of the recipe says "More stew for 5-10 minutes on low heat," safely turn off the stove. Dish will reach until the hob cools down.
11. Use utensils of bystronagrevayuschihsya materials
Ceramic, glass and copper cookware heated quickly in the iron and steel. Law of physics. The faster the heated pan, the less it will spend on energy. saving law.
Also, do not take a three-liter pot, if only need to boil the dumplings for one or two people. Large containers are heated for a long time, and therefore squander your money.
12. Pour into the pot as much water as you need now
Electric consumes a lot of energy. To boil a full kettle liter, it takes about five minutes. But if you always use the boiling water all at once?
Heating a cup of water takes less than a minute, which means you'll save a few tens of watts, which translates into monthly figures very significantly (15-20 kW / h). And clean the kettle from scale. It will boil faster, thus saving energy.
13. Clean the vacuum cleaner
Vacuums too greedy for power. If it is clogged with dust and dirt, the use of it is reduced to zero. We have to vacuum the same spot ten times. And it's not just the extra time, but the extra kilowatts.
14. Wash at lower power
We often choose the wash cycle, without looking at the label of the product.
The water is heated to 60 ° C requires four times more energy than to 30 ° C.
Not always needed hot water (60 ° C and above) to wash out impurities. Remember this the next time zateet laundry.
Another way of saving - spin at a lower speed (600 or 800 instead of 1200). Yes, you pull out a damp linen, but save energy.
15. Call the plumber
If dripping tap or leaking toilet cistern, the pipe runs is not water, and your money. Repair any plumbing leaks on their own or with the help of a professional.
16. Do not pour water to no avail
Close the tap when brushing your teeth, shave, or apply the detergent on the dishes. Running aimlessly jet of water - it's just a waste.
17. Install aerators
This attachment to the taps, spraying water and reduces its consumption by 2-3 times. Manufacturers of these devices claim that with the usual stream of water pours from the tap 10-15 liters, and with a nozzle only 5-6 liters. Substantial savings when you consider that it is worth the aerator 100-200 rubles. Buy it, as well as other things to saveIt can be on AliExpress.
18. Think about buying a dishwasher
On the one hand, the dishwasher consumes a lot of electricity. On the other, it allows to save on water.
With dishwasher spent 2-3 times less water than hand washing under the tap.
The benefit is even more obvious if you observe a number of conditions:
- Acquire the dishwasher with the highest energy efficiency class.
- Accumulate the dishes during the day and run the dishwasher once a day.
- Use the dishwasher after 23 hours, if you have two-tariff meter.
19. You pay only for those registered
Use the cost of the elevator, stairwell cleaning and overhaul depends on the number of people registered in the apartment. Even if a brother, aunt or son for a long time lived in another city, but not de-registered at this address for this person will have to pay.
The amount of platozhke may be less if prescribe do not live in an apartment.
20. Keep a municipal accounting
According to the opinion pollUtility services: user ratingsTo 71% of citizens believe the main problem is not the quality of housing and communal services and their high cost. Moreover, almost half of the respondents were unable to name the exact amount that they pay for communal.
Keep track of, let alone question the correctness of the calculation of utility bills in our country as it is not accepted. And in vain.
Always check the numbers on the receipt with the testimony of metering devices and the current tariffs.
Do not hesitate to request from the control and power supply companies recalculation. Including during the absence of the apartment. And pay for communal without commissions.
Use these tips are complex, and the savings will be substantial. And if you have your own tricks, share them in the comments.
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