Simple Ways to Reduce Your Utility Costs
If reducing your Seattle utility costs has been on your mind lately, here are a few tricks you can use to reduce them pretty quickly.
Turning down the thermostat in your house can have an immediate effect on your bills, if only by 1% for each degree, over a period of 8 hours. If this small action is carried out every day you can see the savings piling up in a matter of weeks. If you are leaving the house, try to get into a good habit of turning down the heat or cool air while you’re gone, since it won’t matter what the house feels like anyway when you’re not around.
Another smart idea to save yourself some money would be to have you heating programmed to turn off during the night or simply being reduced. This can save you a load of money, even though it may not seem like it at first. Even if you are only renting, the difference these small changes can make on your monthly budget can be staggering.
Utility costs are continuing to increase, due mainly to the doubling costs of fossil fuels. It really makes a lot of sense to start cutting back on energy usage, to reduce the amount of money you are spending every month. If you can cut down on your heating, cooling and electrical costs, these three small savings can add up to one large one.
If you have an old furnace, for example, updating it to an energy-efficient newer model will probably save you hundreds of dollars in utility costs per year. Something as simple as getting a digital thermostat to hang on the wall will also be a worthwhile investment. One of these can be picked up at a very affordable price at a local Seattle home improvement store.
While it is necessary to heat and cool your home, your Seattle utility costs may be affected by your assessment of what is cool and what is hot. It wasn’t too long ago when air conditioning didn’t exist and people survived okay in the heat. That is not to say that you need to totally disregard air conditioning, it just means that setting it a few degrees cooler really isn’t going to kill you now, is it?
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