Bring Todays Energy Efficiency To Yesteryear's Homes-Series Part 3 of 3, Baker Home Energy Audit and Commercial Properties Inspections, would like to go over some myths, facts and mistaken ideas that can cost you and your family money. Some old myths about energy become increasingly expensive. Others have simply become obsolete with advances in technology. While others are misinterpretations of old practices that have passed into home owner foklore.
Bring Todays Energy Efficiency To Yesteryear's Homes-Series Part 3 of 3
Myth: Brick or stone homes are more energy efficient than typical frame homes.
Fact: The vast majority of brick or stone homes are actually just a veneer over a wood frame. While more durable than other forms of exterior cladding they offer no efficiency advantage in terms of a home's energy use. For practical purposes the walls of a modern home clad in masonry have to be insulated the same as a frame building sided with wood or vinyl.
Myth: Washing clothes in hot water will kill germs.
A typical home's water temperature is 120 degrees or less, so washing in hot water would be like putting the germs in a hot tub. Our modern laundry detergents are formulated to do their best in cold water. Since heating water is a major energy user it sure makes sense to use cold water and save money.
Bring Todays Energy Efficiency To Yesteryear's Homes-Series Part 3 of 3
Myth: By running a air conditioner's fan continuously will keep your home cooler.
Fact: If the AC fan continuously keeps the moisture removed by the cooling unit from being discharged. That moisture is actualy re-circulated through your home. That is one cause of a cold, clammy-feeling home during ones cooling season.
Money saven tip: To circulate air the best, and the most economical choice is a ceiling fan. You'll find on most ceiling fans there is a summer and winter switch that changes the direction of the fan's air flow. You want the air to be pulled upward's in the summer, to cool and downward's in the winter, to heat. Install ceiling fans in the rooms you and your family use the most. And remember to turn the fan off when you or all family members leave the room to save on your electricity bill.
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Dale, So good to read your post on this subject. There are so many people that think running a ceiling fan will keep the house cool but as most people know this does not cool unless someone is there to feel the breeze of the fan. I am guessing that you are not running your ceiling fans this week. :)
Dale, as always a great post and I am going to check the others in the series. Part of my market is neighborhood adhere there are many older home ranging from the 1920's through midcentury and this directly applies to that type of home. Thanks!
Howdy and Evenen there Don, Russell
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Don - with the prices of energy use now a days, its a subject that is on the minds of alot of folks. Most folks think that ceiling fans are for keeping them cool by blowing down on them. But the fact is they are really for circulating the air in ones home. Actually we are using our ceiling fans to help keep the waer air from going and staying up around the ceiling.
Russell - Thank you kindly!!! a lot of the homes in my area, actually date back to the 1700's or at least parts of the home do. Over the years, new owners have added on to the homes. Its a lot of fun to fine were new meets older in a home.
Ceil always washes clothes in cold water. We turn the A/C to 64 degrees at night and keep it at 68 during the day during the winter months. We also turn the hot water heater off after we shower in the morning when we are gone all day. The water is still hot when we get home in the evening.
Howdy and late Evenen Carl and Ceil
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Deb and I also use coold water for washing our clothes. I have never lived in a house that had AC in my whole life, not even back home.