Today I’m going to show you how to install a ceiling fan to help you save money by cutting down on energy costs.
On hot summer days, ceiling fans can increase air flow and keep you comfortable. In fact, a ceiling fan can lower your room temperature by eight degrees and lower you’re A.C. bill up to 40 percent. Now, those are huge savings!
In the winter, a ceiling fan can help circulate hot air throughout your home and give your furnace a break. It also helps draw heat from things like your stove or fireplace.
Some ceiling fans use less energy than a 10 watt bulb and you can pick one up at your local hardware store. They come is in all sorts of styles, colours and materials—which means you shouldn’t have trouble finding one in your price range. Ceiling fans are pretty simple to install and most come with their own instruction manuals, but I’m going to show you how to install one today.
Now that you have your ceiling fan installed you want to remember that heat rises. So in the summer, you want to spin your ceiling fan counter-clockwise to pull the hot air up. In the winter you want to do the reverse and spin your fan clockwise to push the heat down.
Be sure to place them in areas that get lots of traffic, like your kitchen or family room, and always keep your ceiling fan clean by dusting regularly. Ceiling fans are meant to circulate air, not spread dust and mites throughout your home.
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posted October 4th 2010 at 5:00PM
Don’t forget that people managed to get their dishes clean for millenia before there were electric dishwashers! If you can spare the time, try doing them by hand. If you make a habit of cleaning your dishes as you use them, you’ll find that the task isn’t so intimidating. Even doing dishes by hand several times daily will use less water than running the dishwasher once… and it won’t use any power!
posted September 14th 2010 at 1:21AM
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The results you see, and the energy-saving benefits you will enjoy, will both be a direct function of the size and quality of the system you build, as well as all the characteristics of your home (insulation, southern exposure, materials). But you should know that your total energy output will also be impacted by the solar and wind resources in your specific area and neighborhood – It will depend where you are and what surrounds you (hills, valleys, buildings, etc).
It would be best if you consult the Dept of Energy’s website and pay particular attention to the solar and wind resource maps. Often this information is also available at your municipality’s city hall, which would also be the most relevant source for any legal questions and inquiries related to available rebates.
To get more specific than the answers you would find there can get very difficult for us as a centralized provider of renewable energy how-to information. Even if we know what city you live in, we don’t know exactly where you are, and we don’t know what surrounds your property. Naturally, specific questions about the results customers will see are impossible for us to answer. Your circumstances, like those of all of our customers, can’t be assessed without being there.
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