5 Ways to Reduce Cooling Costs During Summer
How To Reduce Cooling Costs this Summer
Everyone enjoys the warm sun and fun during the summer months, however, the costs of cooling your home significantly add up if you’re not careful. We’ll be discussing how to best reduce your cooling costs this summer with some easy to implement tips and techniques geared towards optimizing your monthly bill and having you well on your way to generating a significant amount of cost savings. Enjoy!
1.) Invest in an Automated Air‑Conditioning Optimizer
Heating and cooling tools such as nest provide great opportunities for optimizing your overall heating and cooling costs. The programmable tool learns when you require cooling and when you require heating. Through its learning algorithm, it begins to understand the best times to have you enjoy a comfortable temperature throughout the day in your home. It’s truly an infinitely valuable tool which your whole family will appreciate.
2.) Purchase Black‑Out Shades for Time Away from Home
Black‑out shades significantly reduce the amount of sunshine which enters your home and subsequently reduces the overall temperature within your home. This process combined with he overall heat reduction will ensure your home is as cool as possible and successfully insulated and reported away from the beaming sunshine.
3.) Choose an Energy‑Efficient Insulation
Insulation can be the difference between a high‑cost energy bill and a low‑cost energy bill. Make sure to choose an insulation which is well‑reviewed and provides the proper technology and efficiency to have your home as cool as possible during the extremely hot Texas summers.4.) Keep Your Home’s Temperature at a Consistent Degree
Keeping your home’s temperature consistent is an extremely easy and effective solution to reducing your cooling costs this summer. If your preferred, comfortable room temperature is around 73 degrees Fahrenheit, choose to maintain your home’s temperature within a three degree margin of said temperature throughout the day. This will certainly reduce the number of extremes in your home’s temperature adjustments. In turn, you’ll find not having to rapidly cool your home from an overwhelming 80 degrees Fahrenheit to your preferred 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
5.) Turn Off Unnecessary Lighting
Reducing your usage of unnecessary lighting can not only significantly reduce your electrical bill, it will also reduce your associated cooling costs due to the expressed heat from some high‑inetsnity bulbs. Have you ever placed your hand near an extremely bright, recessed, LED bulb; it’s hot right? Well, if you reduce the usage of said lights, you’ll find the overall heat within your residence to be reduced as well.
Contact L&S Mechanical for Cooling Optimization!
If you’ve found this article to be helpful yet you’re still struggling to reduce your overall cooling costs this summer, contact us and we’ll be sure to have an excellently qualified technician out to your residence to diagnose the problem areas of your home causing your cooling bills to be more than expected.