{"id":76,"date":"2006-06-01T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/2006\/04\/27\/reducing-electric-bills-repost\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T15:59:49","slug":"reducing-electric-bills-repost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Electric Bills (repost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as easy as flicking a switch on your fuse box that controls the water heater-some households have been doing this for quite a few months now, and saving about $60\/month on electric bills. Simply turn on the water heater 1 hr before you plan on taking a shower (or right before you go to bed for morning showerers) and then shut it off when you&#8217;re through. A water heater can hold enough hot water to last for multiple showers and can stay hot for more than 16 hrs. Similarly, when going on vacations or weekend getaways, just turn it off altogether.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great (and very easy) way to save money on your electric bill and the environment at the same time. Home Depot even sells devices that can be hooked onto the water heater to do this automatically for you.<\/p>\n<p>Goto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/\">http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nThen search for model # WH40D89<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to go through the task of flipping on and flipping off the heater &#8211; another way of saving on electricity costs during the summer is to lower your hot water thermostat to medium heat (or 120 degrees). Your boiler will use less energy, and less heat will escape from the device into the building.<\/p>\n<p>To further save money on water heating and house cooling install low-flow showerheads. These can reduce water consumption by 25 to 60 percent, (provided you use an aerating or a low-flow model).<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags:<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Conservation\">Conservation<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Energy\">Energy<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Education\">Education<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Con+Edison\">Con Edison<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Home+Improvement\">Home Improvement<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/New+York\">New York<\/a> | <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Small+Time+Landlord\">Small Time Landlord<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as easy as flicking a switch on your fuse box that controls the water heater-some households have been doing this for quite a few months now, and saving about $60\/month on electric bills. Simply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-education","category-improvements","category-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}