The Lava Bot

If you ask most people about eco-friendliness, you’ll oftentimes hear a well-meaning answer back from them. Even so, you can often sense a feeling of disconnect between eco-friendliness and the day to day life of the person you’re speaking with. They may recognize we’re harming the planet, but they can’t see how this impacts them. The next time you engage in this kind of conversation, just talk about the ways in which someone can save money directly themselves through being eco-friendly - by significantly cutting their home heating, water and electricity bills.

Some Advice on Ways to Lower your Home Heating, Water and Electricity Bills
Firstly, ensure your windows are properly locked if they’re not actually open. Locking them creates a very effectual airtight seal denying leakage of air getting into the home and even condensation leaking in.

Heating water for your household can total up to 15 percent of your whole utility costs. Adjusting the temperature of your water heater in the 130-degree range instead of a higher one requires a smaller amount of energy to heat and to hold the water. For every 10 degrees you go down, the thermo can knock 3 to 5 percent off of your heating costs.

Utilize low wattage lights. They connect directly into any lighting unit and use less energy.

Think about using motion sensor lighting for both outdoors and indoors. These turn off whenever you exit a room, since there’s an absense of motion when no-one is there. Outside, they turn into a effective burglary.

Utilize an efergy elite to determine how much electrical energy you are using.

Install a twin flush lavatory. These are the ones with two buttons for flushing : a full flush or a half flush.