If you’ve noticed your energy bills are getting out of control, you don’t really want to go another month or two with those same high bills. You want to change something—anything—to get those bills back to a manageable level. The good news is there are several different things you can do, including getting replacement windows in Chandler, AZ, to put those energy bills back in their place. Here are a few options to consider.
Get Energy Efficient Appliances
If you have older appliances, and you are running them constantly (your family wears clothes like crazy and that laundry is never-ending!) then you might want to consider upgrading certain appliances to energy efficient, modern options. Many of these options use less water and much less energy. If you run the dishwasher daily or are doing laundry all day and night (or so it feels), then getting an efficient appliance replaced for the old one can really make a difference in the energy bills.
Replace The Window Treatments
Older window treatments might let the airflow right through the windows and into the home. There are plenty of efficient window treatments today and if yours are old and worn, it might be time to get something to fresh the appearance of your home and the efficiency of those energy bills. You can get honeycomb shades, for example, shutters, or something else that will block air and help upgrade the efficiency of your home.
Program The Thermostat
Most homes have programmable thermostats, and if you have one, make sure you program it. If not, get one and then program it. These thermostats allow you to customize the temperature of your home at certain times of the day. When you aren’t home, you don’t need to have things at an ideal temperature. You might be able to change things overnight as well. Just a few degrees here and there can save you on energy bills.
Insulate The Attic
The attic isn’t somewhere you think about, but you can lose a lot of heat through the top of your house. If you want to save that heat for your family instead, insulate the attic up to today’s codes, or even above and beyond that. You can keep things inside the home and insulate the home for summer as well to keep the cool inside.
Replace Old Windows
Older windows have a tendency to fail in a number of ways and they can really let air in and out. When your air is flowing freely through the house in that way, you are wasting a lot of energy and your HVAC has to run hard and often in order to simply attend to keep up. Once the new windows go in, you are no longer wasting energy, but using it, and a lot less of it, at that. Contact the professionals about what replacement windows in Chandler, AZ can do for you, and your energy bills, and have a free consultation to go over some of the details.
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