on 2/15/2006
Turn off the stove eye or the oven a few minutes before the food is done. The residual heat that has built up will be plenty to finish cooking the food, and it cuts your energy bill.
It will take trial and error to figure out your specific stove or oven needs, but once you do it will save.
If you normally bake an item for 30 minutes, but turn the oven off at 25 minutes you save 17% of the energy you normally used and the food is still cooked the same amount of time.
on 11/22/2005
Open curtains or drapes in early am to let sun in when shining; then reclose them as soon as sun goes down. Try to prevent opening doors as much as possible. Try to prevent opening fridge as much as possible and teach all children the same. This goes for winter or summer. When working in house, I find that if you have on a heavy sweatshirt over another shirt you can actually turn heat practically off until it starts cooling off latter part of day. This has saved me loads of heating costs. S. Burd
on 11/22/2005
In South Florida, continue to set your thermostat at 79 to keep the humidity low. When the weather gets much cooler outside, open windows first thing in the morning to bring the cool air into the house. If you wait until later in the day when the sun is stronger, the house will not cool off and you will tend to blast that A/C even colder than normal. Keep shades closed to the south and west side of the home. When temps. drop below 65, open the shades and put on a sweater. Enjoy!
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Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 Let your pooch climb in bed with you, just this once! You'll be so warm, you might even end up kicking him out!
Anonymous said
on 2/15/2006 Turn off the stove eye or the oven a few minutes before the food is done. The residual heat that has built up will be plenty to finish cooking the food, and it cuts your energy bill.
It will take trial and error to figure out your specific stove or oven needs, but once you do it will save.
If you normally bake an item for 30 minutes, but turn the oven off at 25 minutes you save 17% of the energy you normally used and the food is still cooked the same amount of time.
Anonymous said
on 12/20/2005 Get an electric blanket for each bed in your house. You can stay warm during the night without blasting the heat and wasting energy.
Space heaters are good. Reflection space heaters are very energy efficient and feels like sunlight.
The cost of heating your bed or your bedroom is much lower than the cost of heating your entire house.
Oh, and insulate everything - water heater, windows, doors, etc. Insulation is cheaper than energy.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Open curtains or drapes in early am to let sun in when shining; then reclose them as soon as sun goes down. Try to prevent opening doors as much as possible. Try to prevent opening fridge as much as possible and teach all children the same. This goes for winter or summer. When working in house, I find that if you have on a heavy sweatshirt over another shirt you can actually turn heat practically off until it starts cooling off latter part of day. This has saved me loads of heating costs. S. Burd
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 In South Florida, continue to set your thermostat at 79 to keep the humidity low. When the weather gets much cooler outside, open windows first thing in the morning to bring the cool air into the house. If you wait until later in the day when the sun is stronger, the house will not cool off and you will tend to blast that A/C even colder than normal. Keep shades closed to the south and west side of the home. When temps. drop below 65, open the shades and put on a sweater. Enjoy!