Hello World! Welcome Friends! Are you looking to find new ways to make your home more eco-friendly? Whether you want to make small or big changes to your home, we’re going to be covering everything you need to know on how to create a more eco-conscious place to live. From changing the way you heat or power your home to switching out environmentally harmful products, this post will discuss the options available to you. Keep reading if you want to learn more.
Investing In New Windows and Doors
One of the best ways to ensure your home retains heat is to have new windows or doors fitted. If your windows and doors are of a certain age and lack double or triple glazing, it allows for heat to escape quicker, making for a colder home and wasted money on heating bills. Having doors made with better materials and better seals also helps to trap heat inside. Although new doors and windows can come at a cost, they will help you to save money on energy bills long term. Windows and doors can be a worthwhile investment for your home because they don’t just help with making it more energy-efficient. They also add value to your home should you be thinking of selling in the near future. Another benefit of new doors and windows is the added security they can provide for your home too, making your home safer as well as warmer.
Solar Power Energy and Heating
For those thinking of making some eco-conscious changes around their home, solar energy can be a great option to consider for more renewable energy. Making use of solar panels can allow your home to generate its own heating, electricity, and hot water. They are easy to have installed, as well as to maintain. They can help to significantly reduce the cost of energy bills you currently pay. You could even earn money back for the power they generate if it doesn’t get used up in your own home. Again, solar panels can be an attractive feature when selling your home, increasing the value of your property.
Solar Screens
Having solar screens fitted helps to block out heat and UV rays entering your home through windows. This offers a range of benefits such as protection from harmful UV rays and less sun-damaged furniture. However, one of the biggest benefits of solar screens is that they can help to regulate the temperature of your home. Blocking heat from entering during hotter weather reduces the need for powering air conditioning. And during the colder months, helping to retain heat escaping through windows. Marygrove offer a range of screens for you to choose from, such as retractable solar screens, to help make your home more energy-efficient.
Wind Generated Energy
Wind energy is one of the most sustainable ways to power your home in a more eco-friendly way. You can get air-powered heat pumps fitted to the outside of your home which take in air from the outside and turn it into energy. On a bigger scale, you can have a wind turbine installed on your land to power your home and provide an endless source of energy. If the wind turbine fails to produce enough energy, this can be topped up with a regular energy source. Therefore, making use of wind energy helps to greatly reduce the consumption of energy in your home.
Biomass Heating
Biomass heating consists of heating produced from burning resources such as wood logs or chips. On a smaller scale, biomass heating can be better for the environment than burning fossil fuels and is an incredibly effective way to heat a home. Burning biomass fuels emit less carbon pollution into the environment than fossil fuels, and also has other benefits such as helping to reduce organic waste landfills. Biomass heating can consist of systems such as a biomass boiler which can be used to heat the whole home. As well as things such as log burners to heat individual rooms and wood-burning stoves for the kitchen. Furthermore, biomass heating can work out to be more cost-effective than using other forms of energy to heat your home.
Hydroelectricity
If you live near a water source such as a stream, it could be possible to create your own micro-hydro plant. This uses the flow of water to generate energy to help power your home. Planning permission may be required before you’re allowed to install a micro-hydro plant, so be sure to check with your local authority. The benefits of hydroelectricity include:
- More reliable than options such as wind energy
- Low cost to run
- Renewable and far better for the environment than energy from fossil fuels
- Does not emit any pollutants
For these reasons, hydroelectricity is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to generate energy. The only downsides are that it is limited to where it can be installed and that it can be expensive to have installed.
Cutting Down On Water Wastage
For a more simple way to help reduce your impact on the environment in your home, then try and reduce the amount of water usage you have in your home. Easy ways to cut down water usage include showering instead of having a bath, taking shorter showers, monitoring your water usage on a meter, and upgrading appliances that may be leading to water wastage through leaks and drips. You could also consider recycling water through things such as harvesting rainwater from outside. This can then be stored and used for things such as watering your garden rather than using an outdoor tap.
Changing to Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Making a switch to more eco-friendly cleaning products is a simple way to help reduce the impact we have on the planet. Not only does using eco-friendly products help the environment, but it’s also better for our health too. Conventional cleaning products release harmful toxins which are both bad for the planet and for us to breathe in. they also tend to become in non-biodegradable packaging, making them a big contribution to landfills.
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