Save Energy While Battling The Heat
Help Your AC Stay Energy-efficient With These Tips
There’s nothing better than throwing on the AC when the weather is hot, but we overuse our systems too often. We may avoid leaving the door open while the AC is running but still fall short of doing everything we can to help our AC perform. As a result, we not only make it harder to cool our homes, we waste energy! However, we have a few energy-saving techniques that also help keep you cool. From new light bulbs to cooking outdoors, there are several ways to help ensure your home stays cool and energy efficient.
Keep Up With Your Air Conditioner’s Maintenance
We often forget about our air conditioners until it is too late. Have your AC regularly serviced instead of waiting until a system fails to call an HVAC specialist. Maintaining an AC unit in perfect condition leads to clean, energy-efficient airflow in your home. Professional service can also help you decide if a new HVAC system might provide better, more energy-efficient cooling.
Draw Your Curtains And Blinds
A deceptively simple task, ensuring that the day’s heat stays outdoors can be much more challenging than you realize. Keeping doors and windows shut may help keep cool air inside, but that’s only half the battle. Windows, for example, can be closed, sealed, and let heat into your home. How? The light streaming through them is as hot as the sunlight outside. Curtains, drapes, and blinds are all great ways to stop the sun’s rays from entering your home. While this may, in turn, make your home darker, you can quickly remedy that by flipping a few light switches. Speaking of which…
Reduce Your Personal Heat Production
Now that you’re keeping extra heat from entering your home, you should focus on heat sources inside your home.
Reduce Your Use Of Heated Water
It’s nearly impossible to completely stop using hot water, especially when washing your hands. However, avoiding hot water during a shower helps you keep cool and prevents your home from becoming a hot, humid mess.
Upgrade Your Light Bulbs
An air conditioner can remove existing heat in your home, but that doesn’t mean you need to add more fuel to the fire. When trying to stay cool, avoiding activities that may further heat your home is best. These activities include keeping lights on. Old-school filament light bulbs not only burn through energy but also generate detectable levels of heat. That’s right! It’s not your imagination; a room with incandescent light bulbs is hotter. Instead, consider replacing existing and outdated bulbs with energy-efficient LED ones that don’t release as much heat.
Stick To Outdoor Grills and Fire Pits
It may go without saying, but turning on the stove or firing up the range can affect your home’s overall temperature. Fumes from gas stoves can even lower your home’s air quality! It’s best to avoid using your stove during hot days and instead stick to foods that can be eaten cold(yes, that includes ice cream!) If you absolutely must have freshly cooked food, stick to outdoor cooking. Grills, smokers, and fire pits are all great ways to keep all the extra heat from cooking outdoors.
Don’t Push Your Air Conditioner
Air conditioning is undoubtedly a miracle, but we can’t expect it to beat the heat single-handedly. We can all do our part to help our AC do its job and save energy. From window shades to calling Santa Fe Express for professional maintenance, you have all the tools you need for energy conservation. All it takes to save energy while staying cool is a little foresight.
We are always happy to help you with your air conditioning issues in New Mexico, but in Colorado, we recommend the work of Lion Home Service. For years, Lion has provided proud service to the people of Fort Collins and surrounding areas. Their Fort Collins AC repair service is well known for being the most effective and reliable. You can rest assured that they will take good care of your home.
We offer AC repair services in the following areas:
- • Santa Fe AC repair
- • Los Alamos AC repair
- • White Rock AC repair
- • Espanola AC repair
- • Glorieta AC repair
- • Pecos AC repair
- • Taos AC repair
- • Galisteo AC repair
- • Cerrillos AC repair
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