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Building Energy Efficiency | This Old House

In order to save energy utilization it is worth mentioning here to improve insulation. Have improved insulation in walls, floor or ceilings. It should be kept in mind to check home energy saving devices before purchasing them. It is advised to test these devices before making a purchase. It is not worthy to purchase a device you come across. However, there are a number of appliances that are vigilantly built to give you energy-efficiency feature unlike other technologies causing higher bills to energy used. This situation is quite frustrating for consumers living in a tight budget. If energy utilized is not regulated then it could be more frustrating because of costly bills. For this purpose examine your air conditioning system once in a week and check the sealing of air duct. In mobile home air duct is present under the home. Your air duct must be placed few inches above the ground with skirt for protecting them from dust during bad weather. Properly sealed the air duct by sealing mobile home windows, door and other places of through which dust can entered. On first position lie the electric appliances that aren't switched off even when not needed. Have you noticed that you don't turn of T.V or lights or Air conditioner when you leave your room for some time? Of course you plan to show up quickly but meanwhile you spend so many units and that too in vain. Dilapidated cooling or heating systems consume considerably higher amount of energy than the newer ones. Determine whether you really need to replace your system. It is advisable to take services of professionals as they can accurately measure air filtration, heat conduction, energy input rate and R-value (rate of resistance) of various components. Let us start from: Insulating- As we all know that clothes keep our body warm by trapping the body heat inside, similarly the same principle goes with keeping the house warm in winter. Keeping the house tightly insulated is the best thing but not always the easiest thing to do. Any gap left around the wall enclosure will deteriorate the quality of the insulation i. 

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