Eco Home Makeovers Part 2: Saving Money With An Eco Lounge
Eco Home Makeovers Part 2: Saving Money With An Eco Lounge
The second part of our Eco Home Makeover series is going to focus on a room which often simply wastes endless energy and cash your living room or lounge. The cost of running modern entertainment systems combined with heating the room to a comfortable temperature in the winter can be really quite substantial if you don't take some steps to cut energy wastage. Our guide is therefore going to give you some effective steps that anyone can take to transform the room into a more efficient, and much cheaper place to relax in.
We're going to start with three essential steps you can take for the house as a whole to keep heat in conserve energy and lower your fuel bills:
Double glazing will save up to 20% of domestic heat lost (in comparison with single glazing).
Loft Insulation saves the average home 200 a year in heating bills; insulating cavity walls can also help substantially cut your energy costs.
A chimney balloon stops the chimney from drawing your heat out of your room. The balloons resemble little plastic pillows and fit snugly inside the chimney to effectively seal more of your heat in the room.
Using these three steps you'll save a considerable amount of energy and cash throughout the home. As far as the lounge is concerned though, you could just be wasting money by not using the right appliances.
Which? magazine estimate that leaving appliances like the TV, DVD player, home entertainment system and so on in standby mode can cost you up to 40 a year in wasted electricity. Not to mention the staggering 245 kilograms of CO2 emissions.
There are devices you can fit which get round this problem without you having to remember to turn them all off (most of us won't always remember and that nice red light will often be winking at us in the morning). Some of the better product ranges are the Intelipanel and Inteliplugs, which you simply plug your appliances into to automatically shut down when not in use.
Bye Bye Standby is another good range, with options to accommodate many appliances, remote controls for eased of use, motion sensor features and even online products that will let you schedule when you want appliances turned on and off.
An Ecobuttonswitches your PC automatically onto an energy saving mode when idle. In many households with a PC and laser printer, for example, the potential saving of over 50 per year will easily exceed the initial outlay.
Energy saving light bulbs are simply a must. An 11w energy saving bulb switched on for seven hours daily would be 15.03 cheaper a year to run than a traditional bulb - and last far longer.
Using zoning' devices for your heating system like the Househeat range will help save energy by choosing to only heat those rooms you are actually using.
To stay cosy in front of the TV in winter without having to turn up the heating, try a Flectawrap space technology comforter. It uses a material used by both NASA and the emergency services (against hypothermia and shock).
Giving your lounge an eco-makeover is different in that it's an investment in several futures simultaneously. You'll save money on your everyday utility bills, but also you'll be contributing to a more environmentally friendly society, which will have benefits for generations to come. Each of these products is user friendly, designed for quick and easy installation and use.
All can be purchased online from My Greener Home. Check back soon for the next instalment in the series, our handy guide to your Bedroom Eco-Makeover.
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