We must face the fact that saving money those days is becoming a real challenge. The high prices, the inflation, the bank interests and the monthly bills are all points which are building real obstacles in front of us. There are still several ways you can follow to decrease your bills and enjoy some extra cash every month. Let's discuss your power bill, have you ever thought that by paying more attention and keeping a close eye o your power consumption can actually save a lot of money for you? I want to talk about that issue in this article and I will give some very effective tips which you can follow to cut your electric bill. In general we receive high electricity bill because of our mistakes! I am going to make you aware of the general mistakes which prevent you from eliminating your power bill.
1. Be Aware Of The Passive Consumption.
Don't let your gadgets trick you! Any electronic gadget never stops drawing electricity from the socket if it is still plugged. Unplugging your equipments is a must do after you finish them to avoid the trap of the passive power consuming. Why not sit with your family and let them learn how would they help you save your money and how would it be nice when they can get a bonus trip every month if they unplug the TV and Stereo after they finish and also let they know that leaving the appliances plugged will have bad results and how it will be difficult to cut your electric bill.
2. Never Install A Normal Bulb
Incandescent bulbs draw much more electricity than Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL's) and to cut your electric bill you better make a change! Yes I know that you might be saying CFL's are more expensive but you should not neglect the promising results you could achieve when having them installed instead of your normal bulbs! No problem when paying a couple of dollars extra for a lamp and save hundreds of dollars every year.
Eliminating your power bill is an achievable target with CFL's, let me tell you a great fact about CFL's. Do you that one CFL lamp equals to five or six incandescent bulbs in terms of produced light. In another words one 20 watts CFL will give you the equal amount of light generated from five or six incandescent bulb and that will have a great effect on your power consumption, isn't it. Also think out of the box and take this fact also, Did you know that one incandescent bulb generates enough heat rise the room temperature considerably! That heat will have a major drawback on your AC performance and force it to work for longer periods to keep the temperature at the desired degree, what about if you have several bulbs in one room? That is a heck of load on your AC but CFL's on the contrary doesn't produce such heat. Turning to CFL is a must to do to cut your electric bill.
3. Set The AC To Higher Temperature
Air conditioners can make it or break it! These machines are the most energy consuming appliances you can see but you have the opportunity to avoid the air conditioners curse and let them work to your side. According to the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning the best comfortable climate is 24 Celsius (75 Fahrenheit). Without setting your AC properly you are not only decreasing the life period of the machine but also you are eliminating your chance to cut your electric bill. Make sure you adjust your thermostat to 24 Celsius (75 Fahrenheit) or higher. You can expect to reduce electricity bill by minimum of 30% with this advice alone.
In case you have central AC then it is advisable to get an automatic programmable thermostat where you can select your proper settings for a day or the whole week and apply them. Having a programmable thermostat will help you very much in taking control over how you would your AC to operate. Setting your AC to operate for certain number of hours at 24 Celsius where you stay in house and at automatically turn off while you are away or at the weekends will be great and definitely will help you eliminating your power bill amazingly.
4. Wrap your Heaters
This tip is mainly for those who live in cold countries and have long winters. A normal 2000 Watts water heater costs you average of 0 yearly in terms of energy consumption but if you wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket or jacket this will reduce the leakage of heat kept in the water and increase the time which water remains hot inside the heater and therefore you can cut your electric bill and your water heater usage by 25% to 45%.
5. Check Your Fridge Temperature Scale
Your fridge is a small pattern from your AC. You need to set your fridge thermostat to a reasonable degree rather than set it to the maximum cooling. Firstly this will badly affect your food particularly your fresh food and secondly your possibilities for eliminating your power bill will be much lower. Setting the fridge temperature to a very low temperature will lead to longer working hours and hence increasing the power use. If your refrigerator has multi-scale degrees, regulate the thermostat to the third degree and that will help you very well to cut your electric bill.
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