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Building Energy Efficient Homes- Part 3: Insulation

Ensuring that our house is completely sealed maximizes the use, time and energy saving of our heating devices as it helps in maintaining the temperature. The same is true in case of air conditioning systems. To seal our house perfectly, we need to pay special attention to joints, windows etc. Plastics are the best material to insulate, but on moveable objects we might want to use weather strippers which seal a moveable object from its non-moveable object like doors, windows and garage doors. Discuss these issues with your contractor and architect, ensure that your house is properly ventilated and is made up of bricks that contain high amount of thermal mass. Bricks rebound heat to the eternal environment and absorb the remaining, keeping the house safe from becoming too hot or too cold. Denser material maintains and stabilizes home temperature in all weathers. Water heaters also make use of a large amount of energy. Thus, try to limit its use especially when alternatives are available. It is the second largest power consumer after cooling/heating system of any house. Do not use hot water to wash your clothes because the job of germs eradication can be best done by detergents. There is energy saving devices in market that facilitate to minimize your energy consumption and ultimately lowering electricity bill. Question arises; why to use home energy devices? As it is commonly knows that all home energy appliances have only two buttons on and off. You turn on the button when you need to use the equipment and turned off when you finished using it. If you are thinking that after spending whole day at office how come your house consumes this much electricity, then the doubt is justified to some extent but let's just take a look at what causes high bills. On first position lie the electric appliances that aren't switched off even when not needed. It is also note worthy that, when there is a necessity of home, home energy appliances come in mind, as both are complementary to each other. Your aspiration must be to make sure that everything in your home is energy efficient. Markets are full of many renowned home energy appliance brands. While purchasing energy appliances, buyer must consider that the product should be energy efficient and effective. 

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