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Energy Saving Tips For The Coming Winter

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">On average&comma; over half of a household’s energy costs goes towards heating and cooling&period; As winter approaches&comma; now is the ideal time to determine how you can best reduce how much heat you have to use&period; Besides saving money&comma; you will also be reducing your risk of causing a heating-related fire in your home&comma; which is integral <span style&equals;"text-decoration&colon; underline&semi;">for<&sol;span> keeping your family safe and preventing your home insurance rates from going up&period; Here are a few tips from FlameTech Heating which you can do to save money on heating your home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-1555" title&equals;"Energy Saving Tips For The Coming Winter" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;12&sol;CanonEnergySavings00&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Energy Saving Tips For The Coming Winter" width&equals;"520" height&equals;"345" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Get your home insulated<&sol;b><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Proper insulation in your home can benefit you in both hot and cold weather&period; It can prevent heat from transferring to where you don’t want it to go and can provide a way to control moisture through the ventilation it provides&period; Improving your attic isolation is a key way to keep heating costs down&period; This could cost you between five hundred and one thousand dollars&comma; and result in you paying twenty to thirty percent less each month for heating&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Purchase a programmable thermostat<&sol;b><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">With a new thermostat that you can program to turn up and down at a certain time&comma; you could end up saving about ten percent or more of your monthly costs for heating&period; To achieve these savings&comma; set your thermostat to a lower temperature while you’re at work and possibly when you’re asleep&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Reduce the heat on your hot water tank and use water-saving techniques<&sol;b><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Many hot water heats are set at a higher heat than necessary&period; Reduce your heat from sixty degrees celsius to about fifty degrees to save up to five percent of your bill each month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You can also put an insulation blanket on your heater and purchase a faucet and a shower head that is designed to be low flow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Get double-pane thermal windows installed<&sol;b><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you have single-pane windows currently&comma; you may be allowing more heat to get out than can get in&period; What a double-pane window will do is slow down the transference of heat through the existence of the space between the two panels&period; If you replace all of the windows in your home&comma; you could end up saving up to twenty percent of heating costs at the end of the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Replace your lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lightbulbs<&sol;b><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Every little bit counts&period; CFL bulbs use seventy-five percent less energy than regular bulbs&comma; and can save you up to forty dollars for the duration of their use&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you are looking for a wood fireplace in Victoria BC&comma; be sure to check out Flametech Heating&&num;8217&semi;s website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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