With everything in the HVAC industry moving to electric, we go through 10 ways you can lower your electric bills. Follow these 10 tips and lower your electric bills. Obviously we cannot guarantee, but we have seen others follow these tips and save hundreds if not thousands!
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Chapters
0:00 Intro: 10 Tips for Lowering Electric Bills
0:12 Conditioning an Attic
1:40 Upgrade Windows in Home
2:12 Crawl Space Encapsulation
2:51 Upgrade Insulation in Home
3:48 HVAC Zoning
4:24 HVAC Maintenance
5:08 Thermostat Settings
5:38 Humidity Control in Home
6:14 Higher Efficiency HVAC
7:02 Going Solar
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Chapters
0:00 Intro: 10 Tips for Lowering Electric Bills
0:12 Conditioning an Attic
1:40 Upgrade Windows in Home
2:12 Crawl Space Encapsulation
2:51 Upgrade Insulation in Home
3:48 HVAC Zoning
4:24 HVAC Maintenance
5:08 Thermostat Settings
5:38 Humidity Control in Home
6:14 Higher Efficiency HVAC
7:02 Going Solar
#hvactips #electricbill #hometips
Another thing you could do if you have a central furnace is to replace the PSC motor with an ECM motor. My PSC motor used 500W when in use, while my ECM motor uses around 200W. Are you in Barrhaven ?
Attic power ventilators can fan the flames during a fire and burn your home a lot faster!
Are solar attic fans more effective than turbines?
No, no, no on conditioning your attic. Sorry, but you are wrong there. It may well be the biggest folly in home ownership today. Blowing foam up around the rafters is quick, easy and profitable for contractors. It is a waste of money for home owners. The same money spent insulating the floor of your attic and adding attic foil on top will give you a far better return on your investment. The science simply doesn't add up. The more space you 'condition,' the greater the cost of cooling your home. The greater surface area in the rafters is the killer. That six inches of foam in the rafters put up there at great expense provides no more resistance to the flow of heat than about three inches of cellulose easily blown on the floor at far less cost.
I'll give the numbers from my non-conditioned attic as an illustration. On a hot day, the peak is about 140 degrees, the upper surface of my attic foil is 120 degrees (mostly radiant heat from above) and the surface temperature of the cellulose just below it is 110 degrees. That means I have 16 inches of cellulose protecting me from 110 degree heat. Be highly optimistic and assume that conditioning my attic would also mean 110 degrees at the surface. Is that the same? Nope. Conditioning the attic doesn't mean that foam is doing that much to keep it cool. Like I said, it is the equivalent of three inches put at the floor of the attic. No, that attic is being cooled by the flow of cool from below. That is what you are paying for. You have put your money money into insulating those rafters and your are cooling that attic with your A/C rather than where putting that insulation belongs placed on the ceiling of your home.
1. Is there a way to ballpark how much crawl space encapsulation costs?
2. Do you happen to know the code for installing flex duct straight (without U-turns) off the top of your head? (Long-shot question, but I’m having trouble with a bad contractor.)