The most efficient air conditioners today use 30-50% less energy as air conditioners from the mid 1970’s. Even replacing a 10 year old air conditioner has the potential to save...
Home Energy Savings Made Easy
EcoForce is a one-stop resource for all of your home efficiency needs – including Electricity, Gas, and Water. Learn more about some of the most common ways to reduce your energy bills and how much organizations like energy.gov and Energy Star project typical home savings to be. The best thing is that all of these product categories are eligible for HERO Financing.
According to Energy Savers, homeowners can save 5-15% of heating and cooling costs just by changing the temperature 10-15 degrees for 8 hours per day.
A typical US home loses 20% of heated or cooled air through leaks, holes and poorly connected ducts, and energy contractors report seeing some homes with 50-80% leakage.
For particularly “leaky” homes, air infiltration may account for 30 percent or more of the home’s heating and cooling costs and contribute to moisture, dust, insect and other issues with...
Radiant heating systems supply heat directly to the floor or to panels in the wall or ceiling of a house. Radiant heating is more efficient than baseboard heating and usually...
High efficiency windows can help eliminate cold drafts in winter and leaking air conditioning in the summers and keep your home’s temperature more consistently comfortable
Energy Savers recommends that east-facing and west-facing windows can benefit most from using window film.
When considering insulation, the attic is generally the first place to start, as most of your heat will rise and go through your ceiling to the attic if there is...
After attic insulation, wall insulation is the next most popular and effective place to put insulation when it comes to increasing the energy efficiency of your home.
Insulating the floor over a crawl space requires taking into consideration moisture control and whether you have a vented or unvented crawl space.
Radiant barriers are installed in the attic to reflect radiant heat that comes in through the roof so it has less of an opportunity to heat the attic.
Attic fans are used during the heat of the day to remove superheated air from the attic by drawing cool air in from outside through the vents and pushing the...
According to Energy Star, Energy Star qualified roof products can lower roof surface temperatures by up to 100 degrees.
Cool wall systems are applied to a building’s exterior wall and are highly solar reflective.
An ENERGY STAR certified pool pump can run at different speeds and be programmed to match the pool operation with its appropriate pool pump speed.
A five to ten year old gas pool heater may be 70-75% efficient, while a ten to twenty year old heater may be 60-65% efficient.
Energy Star Qualified light fixtures are required to use 25% or less of the energy used by equivalent standard light fixtures.
Tankless water heaters only heat water when you are ready to use it, but they are able to continuously heat water so that no one runs out of water when...
According toEnergy Star, an Energy Star qualified model will usually save about $30 per year, or $360 over the water heater’s average 13-year lifetime.
Instead of venting the combustion gases directly outside, those gases are captured and utilized to heat the water even more.
For those homes using electricity to heat their water, an electric heat pump storage water heater can be a more efficient source of water heating.
An inch of rainfall on a 1,000-square-foot house produces about 600 gallons of water.
Drip irrigation is a highly efficient irrigation system that slowly waters the soil directly around the base of individual plants through small pipes and emitters.
Experts estimate that up to 50% of residential landscaping irrigation is wasted due to over-watering from inefficient irrigation systems.
Because more penetrates the ground, rotating sprinkler nozzles with pressure regulating devices are estimated to use 20% less water than conventional spray heads.
If your toilet is from 1992 or earlier, you probably have an inefficient model that uses at least 3.5 gallons per flush.
As is well known, a fair amount of water is usually wasted while waiting for hot water to come through the tap.