The electric bill has that summertime glow to it once again.
- That is the glow of my cash getting sucked from my purse.
There is just something about writing that utility check that breaks myself and others down. I remember my dad regularly yelling at us to keep the door shut when the a/c was on. He would get livid when I left a door ajar while in the summer time weeks. He also gave myself and others the cash doesn’t grow on trees lecture. But that man would be spinning in his grave if he was witness to the amount I am paying to heat and cool our home. It came to myself and others the other morning that I could be doing way more to get the energy bill down. Our Heating and A/C program is fairly new so, I know it has a easily high SEER number. So, heating and cooling component efficiency in not at all the issue. Those living inside the house are the issue. That led us to making some real, tangible swings. Every one of us installed a smart temperature control to better manage the Heating and A/C use far more precisely. Every one of us even bought some automatic blinds to sync with the new temperature control. It amazes myself and others that the new temperature control can detect tepid spots throughout the house and then drop the shades on that area. Simply knocking out the direct sunshine heating made a tremendous difference in the amount of time the Heating and A/C is laboring. I added another nice behavior by being certain that the air filter is changed every single week. Every one of us also took a morning and sealed all the cracks and gaps the two of us could find on the exterior of our home. These minor swings will give us at least a 15 percent savings on that monster of a utility bill.