Here are 10 great energy saving tips for your home that can help you and the planet! Visit out blog: www.glocalresidentialblog.wordpress.com Visit our website: www.glocal-residential.co.uk

1. 10 Energy Saving Tips

2. Lower your thermostat
•Stay warm for cheaper this year with this simple tip.
Turning down your thermostat by as little as 1
degree, can save you up to £60 per year!
•Keeping your heating on a constant low heat is also
more economical than turning it up to a high degree
in short blasts.

3. Wrap up warm
•Save energy so simply by wrapping yourself up with
warm with garments such as sweatshirts, woolly
jumpers, bed socks and slippers.
•Keeping a folded up blanket near sitting area’s is also
a great idea to keep you warm and resist turning the
heating on or up higher.

4. Hang out your washing
•Any day without rain is a great day to hang your wet
washing up outside rather than using a tumble
dryer.
•Sunny or windy days are just as good as drying your
laundry and will save you a ton of money – tumble
drying is very expensive.

5. Switch off
•Not turning off unused appliances is a huge
contributor to high energy bills. If you’re not
watching the TV – turn it off at the plug.
•Finished charging your phone? laptop? tablet? Turn it
off at the plug!
•Kitchen appliances like toasters or microwaves which
aren’t used on a daily basis can also be turned off
and turned back on when you require them.

6. Water saver
•Think water! Water bills can increase in price much
faster than you’d think.
• Save money on water by using a lower pressure on
your power shower – you wouldn’t think it, but the
different can be enormous. Limiting the number of
bath’s you have is also a good idea if your trying to
save the pennies.

7. Stock up your fridge
•Keeping your fridge full means that you’re getting the
most out of the energy the fridge is using.
•Studies also claim, that the more that’s in your fridge,
the less energy it uses because it doesn’t have to
work as hard.

8. Measure your cuppa’s
• Filling your kettle with the amount of water that you
need at the time is a great money saver!
•If it has less water to boil – it will use less energy.
•Filling your kettle to the top is pointless – your using
energy to continuously boil water which you won’t
need until later.

9. Lights out
•If you’re not in a room – turn off the lights! Keeping
light’s on is a repeatedly made mistake by many
residents.
• Light’s use a lot of energy – if you are guilty at
keeping lights on, you should invest in energy saving
light bulbs.

10. Minimise washes
•Cut-back on your washing! Try and keep to 1 or 2
cycles a week.
•Rather than doing your washing every-time
something goes into the laundry basket – do your
washing when it’s full. Washing machine’s are
energy sponges! Use them when you have too.

11. Windows open
•In the summer time, save energy by opening windows
and keeping light out of your home rather than using
energy up on air conditioning.
•Air conditioning can be very expensive and so can
electrical fans.

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