Green Upgrades For Your Home

In this article we will present to you four inexpensive household improvements that you can make in order to enhance the efficiency of your home and live in a more eco-friendly manner. 

Install a tube skylight - you can illuminate a dim room by installing a tube skylight. It is also known as sun tunnel and it’s a plastic diffuser that is placed on the ceiling of the room. The tube skylight extends all the way to the roof and allows the sunlight to pass thru the tube and illuminate the room. This type of skylight is much easier to mount than the traditional skylights. Also tube skylights take less ceiling space. By mounting such a feature in your house you will be able to reduce your electricity bills because you will be able to benefit from more natural illumination. 

Insulate the hot water pipes and thus you will reduce the amount of energy that you use to heat the water in your everyday household chores. The insulation material is made of polyethylene foam or rubber and it’s sold at very affordable prices. Once that you insulate your pipes the cool-down time on your hot water pipes will be minimized. Which means that your boiler will be able to heat the water much quickly, thus you will use less energy and you will pay lower electricity bills. 

Household appliances - if the time to replace your bathroom and kitchen appliances has come consider replacing them with the latest trends in the field. Nowadays household appliance manufacturers produce equipment that requires less energy to operate. Even more some appliances can be connected to solar panels, hot water heaters, wind turbines and etc. By getting such appliances you will reduce your electricity and water bills by up to 40%. 

Cleaning - although eco-friendly cleaning products such as carpet cleaning chemicals are a bit more expensive than traditional cleaning detergents they provide a much healthier indoor environment. For instance eco-friendly carpet cleaning chemicals eliminate germs much more efficiently than regular carpet cleaning products.